Social and Personality Development: Essays on the Growth of the Child

This timely volume brings together twenty-six classic and contemporary articles on the social and personality development of the child. Focusing on major events in a child's life, from infancy through adolescence, these multidisciplinary essays provide the essential statement on the central topics in the field: attachment, peer relations, play, identity crisis, and so on. This collection is an ideal companion to the editor's textbook or a supplement to courses on human development.