“A wonderful way to look more deeply into issues in child development.” -Sarah Jane Anderson, Mount Ida College “With its emphasis on critical thinking about child development, Mercer’s text is unique and timely. . . . Mercer has done an admirable job in selecting and tackling the topics that she does.” -Nancy Dye, Humboldt College In Child Development: Myths and Misunderstandings, author Jean Mercer uses intriguing vignettes and questions about children and families to guide readers in thinking critically about 51 common beliefs. Each essay confronts commonly held misconceptions about development, encouraging students to think like social scientists and to become better consumers of media messages and anecdotal stories. The book is organized so that essays can be assigned to parallel either chronologically or topically organized child development texts. Listen to a recording on Jean Mercer's book here.
Features and Benefits: 
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<li>Presents 51 short essays about child development that challenge readers to reconsider their pre-conceived notions </li>
<li>Includes critical thinking questions at the end of each reading </li>
<li>Offers examples of research to help students make the connection between research designs and conclusions </li>
<li>Shows students how to approach research reports </li>
<li>Provides reference lists, including links to relevant SAGE publications </li>
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Child Development: Myths and Misunderstandings is intended for use as a supplementary text in courses in Child Development, Child and Adolescent Development, and Developmental Psychology.

Child Development: Myths and Misunderstandings

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mercer, Jean A.

Psychology & Counseling

Sage Publications, Inc.

“A wonderful way to look more deeply into issues in child development.” - Sarah Jane Anderson, Mount Ida College “With its emphasis on critical thinking about child development, Mercer’s text is unique and timely. . . . Mercer has done an admirable job in selecting and tackling the topics that she does.” - Nancy Dye, Humboldt College In Child Development: Myths and Misunderstandings, 2e, Jean Mercer uses intriguing vignettes and questions about children and families to guide readers in thinking critically about 59 common beliefs. Each essay confronts commonly held misconceptions about development, encouraging students to think like social scientists and to become better consumers of media messages and anecdotal stories. The book can be assigned to parallel either chronologically or topically organized child development texts. Features and Benefits: <ul>
<li>Presents 59 short essays about child development that challenge readers to reconsider their pre-conceived notions</li> <li>14 new essays in the second edition confront topics like language acquisition, adoption, discipline, and nature versus nurture.</li> <li>Includes carefully developed critical thinking questions at the end of each essay</li> <li>Offers examples of research to help students make the connection between research designs and conclusions </li> <li>Intrigues and engages students with the theme of dispelling myths and misconceptions and challenges them to find out if their own beliefs are correct or incorrect.</li> </ul>

Parenting & Relationships

BUNDLE: Levine: Child Development, 2e + Mercer: Child Development, 2e

Levine, Laura E.

In the updated Third Edition of Thinking Critically About Child Development, previously titled Child Development: Myths and Misunderstandings, Jean Mercer offers 59 essays that confront popular misconceptions and fallacies about the field. Intriguing vignettes and critical thinking questions frame each essay, encouraging readers to think like social scientists and become better consumers of media messages and anecdotal stories. Timely topics and DSM-5 references make the book an engaging supplement for both chronologically and topically arranged child development texts.

Thinking Critically About Child Development: Examining Myths and Misunderstandings

Child Development: Concepts and Theories

Understanding child development is essential to ensuring a full and rounded psychological grounding, but given the complex nature of the topic it can be a real challenge.  Child Development: Concepts and Theories takes a step back to focus just on the key concepts of child development that all students must learn. With this book, their first encounters with theories and their applications will mean that they can move on with a firm foundation in child development. Central to this, is understanding how these theories or concepts are applied in the real world and how psychologists engage with them in research. This book gives clear and detailed examples to bring the subject to life. Each chapter features case studies that run throughout the chapter and develop as the students′ own understanding does.   Written for undergraduates, the book will become essential to any student wanting a key to unlock the world of child development.  Jean Mercer is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Stockton University, New Jersey, and writes a blog, "Childmyths", at http://childmyths.blogspot.com 

Sage Publications Ltd.

Understanding child development is essential to ensuring a full and rounded psychological grounding, but given the complex nature of the topic it can be a real challenge. Child Development: Concepts and Theories takes a step back to focus just on the key concepts of child development that all students must learn. With this book, their first encounters with theories and their applications will mean that they can move on with a firm foundation in child development. Central to this, is understanding how these theories or concepts are applied in the real world and how psychologists engage with them in research. This book gives clear and detailed examples to bring the subject to life. Each chapter features case studies that run throughout the chapter and develop as the students′ own understanding does. Written for undergraduates, the book will become essential to any student wanting a key to unlock the world of child development. Jean Mercer is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Stockton University, New Jersey, and writes a blog, "Childmyths", at http://childmyths.blogspot.com

This bundle includes Levine: Child Development, 3e (Paperback) and Mercer: Child Development, 2e.

BUNDLE: Levine: Child Development, 3e (Paperback) + Mercer: Child Development, 2e

Munsch, Joyce

This bundle includes Mercer: Thinking Critically About Child Development 3e, Levine: Child Development 3e, and Levine: Child Development Interactive eBook 3e.

BUNDLE: Mercer: Thinking Critically About Child Development 3e + Levine: Child Development 3e + Levine: Child Development Interactive eBook 3e

With a unique focus on inquiry, Thinking Critically About Child Development presents 74 claims related to child development for readers to examine and think through critically. Author Jean Mercer and new co-authors Stephen Hupp and Jeremy Jewell use anecdotes to illustrate common errors of critical thinking and encourage students to consider evidence and logic relevant to everyday beliefs. New material in the Fourth Edition covers adolescence, adverse childhood experiences, genetics, LGBT issues for both parents and children, and other issues about sexuality, keeping readers up to date on the latest scholarship in the field.

Hupp, Stephen

Jewell, Jeremy D.

This bundle includes Levine: Child Development From Infancy to Adolescence: An Active Learning Approach, Second Edition (Paperback) and Mercer:Thinking Critically About Child Development, Fourth Edition (Paperback).

BUNDLE: Levine: Child Development From Infancy to Adolescence: An Active Learning Approach, Second Edition (Paperback) + Mercer:Thinking Critically About Child Development, Fourth Edition (Paperback)

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Child Development: Myths and Misunderstandings

Child Development: Myths and Misunderstandings

BUNDLE: Levine: Child Development, 2e + Mercer: Child Development, 2e

Thinking Critically About Child Development: Examining Myths and Misunderstandings

Child Development: Concepts and Theories

Child Development: Concepts and Theories

BUNDLE: Levine: Child Development, 3e (Paperback) + Mercer: Child Development, 2e

BUNDLE: Mercer: Thinking Critically About Child Development 3e + Levine: Child Development 3e + Levine: Child Development Interactive eBook 3e

Thinking Critically About Child Development: Examining Myths and Misunderstandings

BUNDLE: Levine: Child Development From Infancy to Adolescence: An Active Learning Approach, Second Edition (Paperback) + Mercer:Thinking Critically About Child Development, Fourth Edition (Paperback)