Human Growth and Family Development Across the LifeSpan

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A life-span approach to the major theoretical perspectives, conceptual debates and methodological concerns in developmental psychology. Description and explanation of the degree to which personality, cognitive abilities, and socio-emotional competencies show stability/change with age. This course includes the life cycle of the family and changes of family structures over time, as well as issues of ethnicity, gender and culture. Students also learn normal and abnormal behavior and an understanding of developmental crises, disability, psychopathology, and situational and environmental factors that affect both normal and abnormal behavior.