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Direct linkSiu, Angela F. Y. – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2008
Studies in Hong Kong indicated that there is a tendency for young children to use internalizing as a means to cope with their daily difficulties. Mother-child relationship has been seen as a factor affecting a child's adaptive coping skills. In this study, we explored the prevalence of internalizing problems among primary school children in Hong…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Mothers, Incidence, Child Behavior
Roggman, Lori A.; Cook, Gina A.; Peterson, Carla A.; Raikes, Helen H. – Early Education and Development, 2008
Research Findings: Early Head Start home-based programs provide services through weekly home visits to families with children up to age 3, but families vary in how long they remain enrolled. In this study of 564 families in home-based Early Head Start programs, "dropping out" was predicted by specific variations in home visits and certain family…
Descriptors: Mothers, Dropout Rate, Dropouts, Family Characteristics
Schatz, Julie N.; Smith, Leann E.; Borkowski, John G.; Whitman, Thomas L.; Keogh, Deb A. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2008
Objective: The present project examined the relationships among early maternal maltreatment risk, children's self-regulation, and later development. It was expected that early maltreatment risk would impact children's emerging self-regulation which in turn, would foster pre-academic delays and behavioral problems. Method: The project used…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Intervention, Structural Equation Models, Psychopathology
Hay, Dale F.; Pawlby, Susan; Waters, Cerith S.; Sharp, Deborah – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2008
Background: Postpartum depression (PPD) is considered a major public health problem that conveys risk to mothers and offspring. Yet PPD typically occurs in the context of a lifelong episodic illness, and its putative effects might derive from the child's exposure to other episodes, in pregnancy or later childhood. The aim of the study is to test…
Descriptors: Mothers, Emotional Disturbances, Public Health, Pregnancy
Hardin, Belinda J.; Vardell, Rosemarie; de Castaneda, Albertina – Childhood Education, 2008
This article describes an early childhood professional development project that took place in the summer of 2005 in Guatemala City. Located in Central America, Guatemala has a population of approximately 12.3 million people, including more than two million children under the age of 5 (UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2007; UNICEF, 2004). Events…
Descriptors: Young Children, Foreign Countries, Faculty Development, Child Care
Na, Jin-Cheon; Chia, Shee Wai – Computers & Education, 2008
The Internet and Web technology development have opened up new ways for people to communicate, gain new information and increase their knowledge. One particular area of interest is that of using online resources to empower informal learners to increase their knowledge at their own time and space. One could look at an online resource as a public…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Child Rearing, Instructional Effectiveness, Parenting Skills
Download full textLally, J. Ronald; Honig, Alice S. – 1977
This final report of the Family Development Research Program contains a description of the program's comprehensive family service approach to promoting child development and the longitudinal findings on program effectiveness. The program offered comprehensive services to 108 families which were low in both income and education. Services included:…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Development, Child Development Centers, Delivery Systems
Paterson, Wendy A. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2007
In July, 2006, Literacy Professionals from across the United States met at Lady Margaret College in Oxford University to discuss research and practice in the teaching of reading and the expansion of literacy. In a tense national climate, reading researchers refer to contrasting theories of teaching reading as "the reading wars," but at…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Research, Teaching Methods, Literacy Education
FPG Child Development Institute, 2007
Early childhood classrooms are far from homogeneous. Today, 43 percent of children in the United States under age five are of a race or ethnicity other than White. While the demographic characteristics of young children have become more diverse, their teachers have not. The vast majority of teachers (68 percent) are White as is 80 percent of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Teacher Educators, Faculty
Brownell, Celia A., Ed.; Kopp, Claire B., Ed – Guilford Publications, 2007
This volume explores the key developmental transitions that take place as 1- to 3-year-olds leave infancy behind and begin to develop the social and emotional knowledge, skills, and regulatory abilities of early childhood. Leading investigators examine the multiple, interacting factors that lead to socioemotional competence in this pivotal period,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Toddlers, Social Development, Emotional Development
Polovina, Nada; Stanisic, Jelena – Online Submission, 2007
Family-school cooperation is a very complex process that can be studied at different levels in a number of different ways. This study has covered only some aspects of cooperation between parents and teachers, based on school documentation of a Belgrade elementary school. The study covered analyses of 60 Attendance Registers pertaining to 60…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Attendance Patterns, Child Development, Parents
W. K. Kellogg Foundation, 2007
This publication, developed by W.K. Kellogg Foundation in collaboration with IDEO, details a human-centered approach to evolving the system of early education for the needs and possibilities of the 21st century. It provides a set of ideas or "thought-starters" on transforming early education to ensure school readiness and success for the…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Educational Change, Early Childhood Education, Young Children
Mac Naughton, Glenda; Hughes, Patrick; Smith, Kylie – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2007
Young children's views are heard rarely in public debates and are often subordinated to adults' views. This article examines how early childhood staff could support and enhance young children's participation in public decision making. We argue that when early childhood staff use their expertise in young children's physical, social and cognitive…
Descriptors: Participative Decision Making, Cognitive Development, Childrens Rights, Child Development
Jensen, Peter S.; Arnold, L. Eugene; Swanson, James M.; Vitiello, Benedetto; Abikoff, Howard B.; Greenhill, Laurence L.; Hechtman, Lily; Hinshaw, Stephen P.; Pelham, William E.; Wells, Karen C.; Conners, C. Keith; Elliott, Glen R.; Epstein, Jeffery N.; Hoza, Betsy; March, John S.; Molina, Brooke S. G.; Newcorn, Jeffrey H.; Severe, Joanne B.; Wigal, Timothy; Gibbons, Robert D.; Hur, Kwan – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2007
Objective: In the intent-to-treat analysis of the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children With ADHD (MTA), the effects of medication management (MedMgt), behavior therapy (Beh), their combination (Comb), and usual community care (CC) differed at 14 and 24 months due to superiority of treatments that used the MTA medication algorithm (Comb+MedMgt)…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Behavior Modification, Psychopathology, Therapy
Landa, Rebecca – Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2007
Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder defined by impairments in social and communication development, accompanied by stereotyped patterns of behavior and interest. The focus of this paper is on the early development of communication in autism, and early intervention for impairments in communication associated with this disorder. An overview of…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Autism, Communication Skills, Interpersonal Communication
