Why are you assigning or considering a brief Human Development text? Is it because your students do not complete the reading in a comprehensive text? Do you run out of time trying to cover the entire lifespan over the course of a few months? Do your students struggle to retain the sheer volume of information in the course? Instructors from across the country have clamored for a streamlined text that captures the core concepts of life-span development. "Santrock Essentials 2e" was developed to help meet the ever-changing needs of students in the lifespan course. Knowing that students do not often read the text and have poor study skills, "Santrock Essentials" introduces an adaptive diagnostic that helps students know what they know and what they don't know to become more efficient and effective learners. Organized in a concise format, "Santrock Essentials" helps students relate to the material and study more efficiently by driving them to the applicable reading content in a format that is more student-friendly. Based on hallmark features- its expert contributors, updated research and focus on applications, "Santrock" provides the most dependable and current presentation of lifespan development available, and he does so in a briefer format and with our adaptive diagnostic helping to ensure that your students will read and appreciate the material while seeing the applications to their everyday life. In "Santrock", our new Milestones video and assessment program helps bring the course material to life, so your students can witness development as it unfolds. "Essentials of Lifespan Development 2e", was carefully designed and constructed to deliver these core concepts along with a strong applications focus reflecting the broad range of interests and backgrounds of students taking this course. And as always with John Santrock's texts, the latest research in the field is incorporated throughout.

约翰 W. 桑特洛克

（John W. Santrock）

美国心理学家，著有多部全美畅销心理学教材，尤以发展心理学教材见长。这些优质教材中的多部已更新到了非常高的版次，且已被译为中文。

桑特洛克撰写了100多部教材，涉及心理学的多个领域。他的作品已在几十个国家和地区出版，包括中国、西班牙、葡萄牙、希腊、意大利、韩国、日本和加拿大。桑特洛克教授的课程包括毕生发展心理学、青少年心理学、教育心理学、家庭进程。

他的作品包括《毕生发展》（第14版）（Life-Span Development，14th Edition）、《儿童发展》（第13版）（Child Development，13th Edition）、《儿童》（第12版）（Children，12th Edition）、《青少年心理学》（第14版）（Adolescence，14th Edition）、《心理学》（第7版）（Psychology，7th Edition），等等。

桑特洛克拥有明尼苏达大学教育和人类发展学院博士学位。他曾任教于查尔斯顿大学和乔治亚大学，目前在得克萨斯大学达拉斯分校心理学系教授一系列本科课程。2006年，桑特洛克获得得克萨斯大学达拉斯分校杰出教学奖。自1982年他在该校开设发展心理学课程以来，这门课程一直延续至今。

桑特洛克是 《儿童发展》（Child Development）和 《发展心理学》 （Developmental Psychology）两本期刊编委会成员。他现在的研究兴趣是家庭进程的本质，以及儿童和青少年的社会性发展。他关于父亲监护的研究被广泛引用，并被用于专家证人证言中，以便促进监护纠纷处理中的灵活性和选择的多样性。