Discovering Child Development, 2nd Edition

Cengage Learning is pleased to welcome the author team of Carol Lynn Martin and Richard Fabes, and to offer their Discovering Child Development in a new edition aligned with our robust technology program. With targeted pedagogy, an unsurpassed illustration program that appeals to visual learners, and an emphasis on linking critical thinking about the issues to the real world, this text is ideally structured for chronological child development courses. The authors demonstrate the ways in which people, contexts, and experiences affect development, and why this stage of life is so unique.

Carol Lynn Martin, Ph.D., has been a professor of child development at Arizona State University for more than 15 years. She is a member of the Society for Research in Child Development and the National Council on Family Relations and a fellow of the American Psychological Association. Martin has been associate editor for Developmental Psychology and was a member of the editorial board of Child Development. She has published over 50 articles and book chapters, including a co-authored chapter in the new edition of the Handbook of Child Psychology. Most of these publications are in the areas of gender-role development and the cognitive processes underlying it. She is married to Richard Fabes, and away from work she enjoys yoga, tennis, traveling, and reading.

Richard A. Fabes, Ph.D., is the Dee and John Whiteman Distinguished Professor of child development at Arizona State University, where he has taught for more than 20 years. He is the Director of the School of Social and Family Dynamics and is a member of the Society for Research in Child Development, National Council on Family Relations, and American Psychological Association. Fabes has been an associate editor of Merrill-Palmer Quarterly and has been a member of the editorial boards of several widely known scientific journals, including Developmental Psychology and Psychological Bulletin. He has published over 100 articles, book chapters, and edited books, including a co-authored chapter in the new edition of the Handbook of Child Psychology. Most of these publications are in the areas of socio-emotional development of young children. He is married to Carol Martin, and away from work he enjoys golf, traveling, and music.