Child Development

have shown that families of children with birth defects may experience more distress, as measured by higher levels of mental hea ...

titudes, and behaviors, including the presence of ju- venile delinquency, mental illness, and success or failure in marriage. Cl ...

(1989), believes the size of the family into which a child is born is more important than the order of births in the family. She ...

BIRTHWEIGHT Birthweight is an important indicator of the approxi- mate maturity of a newborn infant and the ability of that newb ...

FIGURE 1 SOURCE: Martha Slay, Greg R. Alexander, and Mary Ann Pass. research, current knowledge is limited about the causes of p ...

compounded by poverty and related adverse socio- economic factors. High Birthweight High birthweight (HBW), or macrosomia (large ...

World Health Organization. Manual of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Injuries, and Causes of Death, Si ...

mother-child separation. He completed a mono- graph for the World Health Organization on the sad fate of homeless children in po ...

FIGURE 1 SOURCE: Mark H. Johnson and Michelle de Haan. thought that the cortex underlies humans’ complex intellectual abilities. ...

groups of receptor cells in the eyes play an important role in helping to structure some parts of the brain in- volved in vision ...

development of the ability to keep things in mind even when they are not observable may be related to the emergence of infants’ ...

As part of his research, pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton proposed that an infant’s behavior provides clues for parents that can ...

(BNAS) in the early 1970s. The scale enables parents, health care professionals, and researchers to under- stand a newborn’s lan ...

brenner holds the position of Jacob Gould Shurman Emeritus Professor of Human Development and Family Studies of Psychology at Co ...

Anthony Amsterdam, Minding the Law (2000) and The Uses of Narrative: Law, Literature, and Life (forthcom- ing). Bruner’s contrib ...

C CATTELL, JAMES (1860–1944) Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1860, J. McK- een Cattell was the fourth president of the Amer ...

James Cattell’s contribution to the discipline of child development can be seen through his early appreciation of individual dif ...

as quickly as possible through an abdominal incision to save its life. In the time of the Caesars this law be- came the Lex Cesa ...

time required for performing the operation and the somewhat longer hospital stay following the birth. Complications Related to C ...

sparks people’s emotions and a desire to take action against the offending adult. In reality there are many faces of child abuse ...