References
Every course here is written against a named anchor text — one standard work whose terminology and topic boundaries the course follows — and checked against a secondary witness written independently of it. Where the two disagree, the course follows the anchor and says so at the entry where the disagreement lands. These are the texts for Human Growth and Development.
- Anchor
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OpenStax, Lifespan Development (Riser, Spielman, Biek), all 17 chapters. Book version dated April 23, 2026.
- Witness 1
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Lally, M., and Valentine-French, S. Lifespan Development: A Psychological Perspective, 5th ed. College of Lake County, 2024.
- Witness 2
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The Noba Project (Diener Education Fund), modules individually authored.
- Diagnostic standard
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American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-5-TR), 2022, for every diagnostic criterion taught.
Naming the anchor is not a claim of endorsement by its publisher, and the course is not affiliated with any of the works above. Openly licensed texts carry their licence beside them; the rest are cited, not reproduced.