General Information

Green, M. (1989).  Theories of human development:  A comparative approach.  New Jersey:  Prentice Hall.

Miller, P. H. (1983).  Theories of developmental psychology.  San Francisco:  W. H. Freeman and Company.

Parke, R. D., Ornstein, P. A., Rieser, J. J., & Zahn-Waxler, C. (Eds.). (1994).  A century of developmental psychology.  Washington, DC:  American Psychological Association.

Sigelman, C. K. & Shaffer, D. R. (1991).  Life-span human development.  California:  Brooks/Cole Publishing Company.

Thomas, R. M. (1992).  Comparing theories of child development.  California:  Wadsworth Publishing Company.

Theory Specific Resources

Bronfenbrenner, U. (1986). Ecology of the family as context for human development:  Research perspectives.  Developmental Psychology, 22, 723-742.

Cohen, R. & Siegel, A. W. (Eds.). (1991).  Context and development. New Jersey:  Lawrence Eribaum Associates.

Dent-Read, C. & Zukow-Goldring, P. (Eds.).  (1997).  Evolving explanations of development:  Ecological approaches to organism-environment system.  Washington, DC:  American Psychological Association.

Farnham-Diggory, S. (Ed.). (1972).  Information processing in children.  New York:  Academic Press, Inc.

Freud, S. (1964).  New introductory lectures on psycho-analysis.  New York:  Penguin.

Masten, A. S. & Coatsworth, J. D.. (1998).  The development of competence in favorable and unfavorable environments.  American Psychologist, 53, (2). 205-220.

Moen, P., Elder G. H., & Luscher, K. (Eds.). (1995).  Examining lives in contexts:  Perspectives on the ecology of human development.  Washington, DC:  American Psychological Association.

Neu, J. (Ed.) (1991).  The cambridge companion to freud.  New York:  Cambridge University Press.

Osborne, R. (1993).  Freud for beginners.  New York:  Writers and Readers Publishing, Inc.

Rolf, J., Masten, A. S., Cicchetti, D., Nueterlein, K. H., & Weintraub, S. (Eds.). (1990).  Risk and protective factors in the development of psychopathology.  New York:  Cambridge University Press.

Underwood, G. (Ed.). (1978).  Strategies of Information Processing.  New York:  Academic Press, Inc.

Vygotsky, L. S. (1978)  Mind in society.  Massachusetts:  Harvard University Press.

Vygotsky, L. S. (1978)  Thought and culture.  Massachusetts:  MIT Press.

Wang, M. and Gordon, E. (Eds.) (1994).  Risk and resilience in inner city America:  Challenges and prospects.  New Jersey:  Erlbaum.