Child Development

fundamental not only to psychologists’ understand- ing of behavior but also to parents, schoolteachers, so- cial workers, policy ...

genotype. The links between genes and particular normal and abnormal phenotypes are being identi- fied using results of the Huma ...

General Patterns Growth differences between males and females begin before birth and continue until adulthood. Generally, boys a ...

In public-health studies comparing different populations or countries, the percentage of young children with very short stature ...

when he was just twenty-two years old. In it he de- scribes a new science of organization that could be used to explain how it i ...

watch children play to gain an understanding of chil- dren’s problems and to help them deal with their emotions. The universal n ...

TABLE 1 SOURCE: Janet W. Bates. same toys and materials, but do not engage in social interaction. A child may notice what his pe ...

Bibliography Bredekamp, Sue, and Carol Copple. Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs. Washington, DC: ...

The least severe and most common type of postpartum depression is known as the ‘‘baby blues,’’ a mild syndrome occurring in up t ...

to enhance maternal sensitivity, responsivity to infant cues, and positive parent-infant interaction. Primary outcomes are exami ...

Milgrom, J., P. R. Martin, and L. M. Negri. Treating Postnatal De- pression. Chichester, Eng.: Wiley, 1999. Murray, Lynne, and P ...

One of every five children in the United States lives in a family with income below the official poverty level. Children who gro ...

neighborhood poverty had significant effects on chil- dren’s developmental test scores as early as age three (beyond the effects ...

Maternal Development A woman’s physical state begins to change from as early as the implantation of the fertilized egg and conti ...

In addition to these self-reported symptoms of pregnancy, an obstetrician can use ultrasonography to definitively identify an ea ...

Amniocentesis is a prenatal test in which fluid is extracted from the amniotic sac via the uterus of a pregnant woman. The resul ...

to Williams Obstetrics, a primary textbook in the obstet- rical field, the milestones in fetal development can be marked every f ...

Bibliography Cunningham, F. Gary, Paul C. MacDonald, Norman F. Gant, Ken- neth J. Leveno, Larry C. Gilstrap, Gary D. Hankins, an ...

FIGURE 1 SOURCE: Greg R. Alexander, Mary Ann Pass, and Martha Slay. in children have been attributed to preterm birth. Preterm i ...

obstetric and neonatal practice and technology (e.g., surfactant, steroids, ultrasound), may lead to earlier diagnosis of proble ...