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Young, Karen MacKay – Canadian Children, 2002
Emphasizes that the Brazleton and Greenspan book focuses on the needs of children, not those of parents or service providers, spotlighting healthy maturation. Stresses recommendations for public policy, research, and clinical experiences. (SD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Health, Child Rearing, Childhood Needs

Mill, Davina – Canadian Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education, 1999
Reviews Katz and McClellan's book on the teacher's role in promoting children's social competence, emotional development, and understanding. Discusses the contents of each of the book's five chapters, noting suggestions for curriculum and practice, and for helping children overcome social difficulties, as well as the components of social…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Interpersonal Competence

Schmid, Karen – Adoption Quarterly, 1998
Reviews "Children in Long-Term Foster Care: Emotional and Social Development" by Colette McAuley, an intensive study of 19 children in middle childhood in their first two years of foster placement in Northern Ireland. Maintains that the book's strengths include its discussion on interviews with children, the applicability of attachment…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Book Reviews, Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Development
Cautilli, Joseph – Journal of Early and Intensive Behavior Intervention, 2005
Behavior analyst teaching child development courses would do well to look into this book as the main text for the course. It represents the most comprehensive attempt to date to try and integrate the developmental literature with the study of basic mechanisms of learning. The book is written in a clear and concise manner that can be understood by…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Systems Approach, Child Development, Behavior Modification

Moshman, D.; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1995
Reviews two books that address fundamental issues of good and evil; a collection that addresses fundamental questions about child care; two books on recent developments on the study of the self; a two-volume collection on children's development within social contexts; and a comparative study of theories of child development. (AA)
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Child Caregivers, Child Development, Comparative Analysis