Kathleen Stassen Berger - The Developing Person Through Childhood and Adolescence, Twelfth edition

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TWELFTH EDITION

Through Childhood and Adolescence

• Kathleen Stassen Berger
• Bronx Community College
• City University of New York

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2020945062

ISBN: 978-1-319-35251-6 (epub)

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Kathleen Stassen Berger received her undergraduate degree at Stanford University and Radcliffe College. Then she earned an M.A.T. from Harvard University and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Yeshiva University. Her broad experience as an educator includes directing a preschool, serving as chair of philosophy at the United Nations International School, and teaching child and adolescent development to graduate students at Fordham University in New York and undergraduates at Montclair State University in New Jersey and Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. She also taught social psychology to inmates at Sing Sing Prison who were earning paralegal degrees.

Currently, Berger is a professor at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York, as she has been for most of her professional career. She began there as an adjunct in English and for the past decades has been a full professor in the Social Sciences Department, which includes psychology, sociology, economics, anthropology, political science, and human services. She has taught Introduction to Psychology, Child and Adolescent Development, Adulthood and Aging, Social Psychology, Abnormal Psychology, and Human Motivation. Her students from diverse ethnic, economic, and educational backgrounds, of many ages, ambitions, and interests honor her with the highest teaching evaluations.