Thinking Critically About Child Development:Examining Myths and Misunderstandings

Jean Mercer's Critical Thinking in Child Development: Myths, Mistakes, and Misunderstandings 4e, uses intriguing vignettes and questions about children and families to guide readers through 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. 

The fourth edition contains 16 new claims/misunderstandings. This new edition is also fully updated to reflect the changes in DSM-5, and the book now has a greater emphasis on the strategies and practices of critical thinking throughout.