Objective: The article discusses the ADHD Observational Research in Europe (ADORE) study that examined the impact of early treatment choices on outcome within the first few months, in previously untreated children with impairing inattention, impulsivity, and hyperactivity. Methods: Data are collected from a longitudinal, observational study…

According to the "fragmentation objection" to multiculturalism, practices of cultural recognition undermine political stability, and this counts as a reason to be sceptical about the public recognition of minority cultures, as well as about multiculturalism construed more broadly as a public policy. Civic education programmes, designed to promote…

Objective: As a follow-up to an earlier cross-sectional study (Holmbeck et al., 2003), the current multimethod, multi-informant investigation examined individual growth in psychosocial adjustment across the adolescent transition in 2 samples: young adolescents with spina bifida (SB) and typically developing adolescents (N = 68 in both groups at…

Asserting that play encourages development of the cognitive map, this article describes the development of a cognitive map and explores the function of play in that development. (JC)

This study attempted to establish whether and at what age nursery school children begin to take others' outcomes into account in making choices, in tasks where competitive or cooperative choices permit successful performance, or in settings where cooperative or competitive choices imply foregoing own-gain maximization. (JMB)

Examines some predictions of social learning theory for the development of peer-oriented social behaviors of infants. (Author/SB)

Defines the field of developmental psychopathology, and briefly describes the articles contained in this volume. (PCB)

A social skills training package including modeling, behavior rehearsal, feedback, and contingent reinforcement on the interpersonal responses of three depressed youth produced changes in specific responses associated with the introduction of treatment in those areas. Natural environment assessments revealed that performance gains generalized to…

A naturalistic social skills training program was used to teach assertive responses to three autistic adolescents in the context of two game situations. Results demonstrated the effectiveness of the procedure in generating high levels of positive and negative assertions that maintained across a 4.5-month follow-up interval. (Author/CL)

Describes the characteristics of the psychic child. Suggests ways in which parents, relatives, and friends may deal with these children. Pressures to conform or misunderstanding of psychic feelings and talents may cause the child to lose psychic skills or damage him emotionally. (Author/CB)

Experiment I demonstrated that while LD children were judged more negatively under instruction to act naturally, these children were judged as positively as nondisabled children when prompted to ingratiate. In Experiment II, a group by instruction interaction was found and was similar in nature to that found in Experiment I. (Author/CL)

The paper discusses four studies on the validity of a measure designed to assess prelinguistic communicative behavior. The measure elicits social-communicative behavior through presentation of 10 simple tasks. Both the concurrent and content validity of the elicited tasks were demonstrated through use with infant and toddler-age developmentally…

A total of 230 children, ages 3 to 8, made six paired comparison judgments as to which of two brief incidents was funnier. At all ages children significantly preferred aggressive and incongruous incidents to neutral incidents. When aggressive and incongruous nonverbal incidents were paired, there was no significant preference. (Author/SB)

Previous research has documented associations between young children's social development and both temperament and child care quality. The preponderance of research in this area has focused on preschool-age and older children, resulting in few studies focusing on these variables during infancy. In the current investigation, temperament and child…