This document consists of the four 2000 issues of a newsletter disseminating information on the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) and providing a forum for important news, research, and information concerning advancements in child growth and development research. Each issue of the newsletter provides announcements and notices of…

"Empirically Based Play Interventions for Children" is a compilation of innovative, well-designed play interventions, presented for the first time in one text. Play therapy is the oldest and most popular form of child therapy in clinical practice and is widely considered by practitioners to be uniquely responsive to children's developmental needs.…

Article considered how to help children become truly involved in planning their own educational program, in assessing their own progress, and making intelligent decisions about things that affect them. (Author/RK)

Suggests offering literature to children that is meaningful in terms of the child's growth and furture, and the future of people, rather than avoiding all books showing people and the world in less than idyllic contexts. (TO)

Article considered the merits of adult education programs in terms of the attitude development and values parents would gain and in turn share with their children. (RK)

Author warns that in order for children to develop intellectually educators must recognize the need for prevention of extended deviations in social, physical, emotional and/or mental areas. Early childhood seemed to be the most promising time for effecting desired changes in intellectual growth patterns. (Author/RK)

This study treats the child's vocal and rhythmic development immediately subsequent to birth and forward, and shows how this development relates to musical learning. (Author)

Analyses revealed consistent support for the hypothesis that number conservation is developmentally prior to liquid quantity conservation. (Authors)

Research supported by the Cooperative Research Program, U.S. Office of Education. (DS)

Demarcates a number of research areas for black behavioral science scholars in regard to preventive as well as rehabilitative mental health concerns (DM)

Article lists the cultural strengths that the black child brings to the educational environment. (RK)

Five different teaching courses are available for student teacher-learners at the Park School, which creates unique opportunities for student teachers to critically interact with each other in a classroom environment. (RK)

Describes shift from traditional diagnostic function of state child agency toward diagnostic-consultant role, resulting from awareness of viewing pathology in context of child-family-agency-community. Presents two case studies illustrative of this interaction. (CJ)

Urges teachers to be alert to emotional needs of children, particularly in view of contemporary lack of family cohesiveness and to formalize programs to strengthen children emotionally as part of daily teacher function. (CJ)