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Ben-Arieh, Asher; Frones, Ivar – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2011
Recent years have brought a dramatic rise in the number of efforts to measure and monitor the status of children. Yet, despite numerous efforts and reports with "Child indicators" in the title, the field of social child indication is fragmented and lacking a unifying taxonomy. The more ambitious the analysis and the more elaborate the statistics,…
Descriptors: Children, Classification, Well Being, Guidelines
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Grondin, Anne-Marie – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2011
Contemporary western understandings of "childhood" reflect (adult) cultural projections of children as (sexually) innocent, vulnerable beings. In this paper, I examine how projections of children and their "sexual culture" are maintained and reproduced through child sexual abuse therapy in North America. I argue that such specious frameworks pose…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Therapy, Children
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Kobor, Andrea; Takacs, Adam; Urban, Robert; Csepe, Valeria – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
The purpose of the present study was to conduct latent class analysis on the Hyperactivity scale of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in order to identify distinct subgroups of subclinical ADHD in a multi-informant framework. We hypothesized a similar structure between teachers and parents, and differences in symptom severity across…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Measures (Individuals), Neuropsychology, Item Response Theory
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Denning, Christopher B.; Chamberlain, Jolie A.; Polloway, Edward A. – Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 2000
A study investigated the impact of the American Association on Mental Retardation's 1992 manual that provided an alternative approach to mental retardation definition and classification. Forty-four states indicated they based their guidelines on the 1983 manual, four states reported using the 1992 manual, and three used neither model. (Contains…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Classification, Clinical Diagnosis
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Top of the News, 1983
Presents guidelines developed by Cataloging of Children's Materials Committee of American Library Association for standardized cataloging of print and nonprint materials. Examples of annotated catalog cards in AACR2 form include a description, notes, standard number, name and title access points, subject headings, and classification. Seven sources…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Adolescents, Books, Cataloging
Silverman, Benjamin K., Ed.; Waddell, Anthony, Ed. – 1987
This publication summarizes current knowledge about Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in children and recommends future directions for research, prevention, and amelioration of the effects of pediatric AIDS. After an excerpt from Surgeon General Koop's keynote address, contents provide selections from workshop presentations concerning (1)…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Children, Classification, Drug Abuse
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Rasmussen, Lucinda A. – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2004
Recent empirical research has shown that children with sexual behavior problems and adolescents who offend sexually are diverse populations consisting of several subtypes (Hall, Mathews, & Pearce, 2002; Pithers, Gray, Busconi, & Houchens, 1998; Worling, 2001). This article reviews the descriptive and empirical research related to identifying…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Adolescents, Sexuality, Sexual Abuse