Carroll Community College

Human Development (Psychology 210) Resources

Internet resources:

• Classic Theories of Child Development - summaries of the major theorists such as Erikson, Freud, Mahler.
• Birth Psychology - a content-rich site featuring articles and links to information on the psychology of pregnancy and birth.
• Adolescence Directory On-Line (ADOL) - a directory of web sites dealing with adolescent psychology.
• Administration on Aging - the Federal agency which deals with aging issues.  Provides statistics and other online publications.
• Dr. Michael Fenichel's Current Topics in Psychology
• Adult Development and Aging - Division 20 - the division of the American Psychological Association which deals with adult development.
• Developmental Psychology - a leading journal in the field.  Offers some full text articles but mostly abstracts
• Developmental Psychology of Erik Erikson - synopsis of Erikson's work from an educational psychology text. Used for a psychology course at Richland College.
• Erik H. Erikson - short biography of Erikson and overview of his work from the Erikson Institute, a Graduate School in Child Development.

Library electronic resources:

• Online book & media catalog
• Periodical Databases
  • Psychology Databases
  • Health/Science Databases
  • General Databases
  • Medline
•  Documenting sources

Electronic books:

• Aging Nation: The economics and politics of growing older in America

updated 2007, compiled by Alan Bogage