Understanding People

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Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.From the IntroductionHave you ever stopped at a high mountain overlook and looked down on the road you have just traveled? You knew what each traveler could expect and what experience the drivers already had. You were in an advantageous place to understand both the problems and successes of driving on that road.Understanding People is a mountaintop book. It places you in an advantageous position to view human development so you can more readily understand normal progress people make on the highway of life. Grasping its content will help you to better relate to people. This knowledge will also help people with family relationships as well as sharing the truths of God with others.The book opens with a brief introduction to human development from a Christian perspective. Later chapters take one age level and describe people at that age in terms of their physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual characteristics.Each chapter presents the theories of human development in an easy-to-read format with up-to-date practical applications of each theory.You will notice each chapter concludes with discussion questions and activities to help you apply the contents. To help you focus your reading of the chapter, begin by reading these questions and activity descriptions. Then, when you finish your reading, take a few extra minutes and write your answers to these questions.For those of you who desire more in-depth study of human development, at the end of the book you will also notice a list of resources for enrichment. Reading and studying a sampling of these resources will provide a more comprehensive study.From the PublisherThis book is an ETA Classroom Series textbook and is a part of ETA's Church Ministries Certificate Program.About the AuthorRobert Barron, M.A., the late J. Omar Brubaker, M.A., and Robert E. Clark, Ed.D. all served as faculty with Moody Bible Institute. Dr. Clark currently serves on the Board of Directors of Evangelical Training Association.