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Imprint:Farnham : Ashgate, c2010.
Description:xxiii, 380 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
Series:The library of essays in child welfare and development ; 1
Library of essays in child welfare and development ; 1.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8127915
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Other authors / contributors:Maughan, Barbara, 1946-
Little, Michael, 1958-
ISBN:9780754628835 (hbk.)
0754628833 (hbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Key Concepts in Developmental Research
  • An ethological approach to personality development
  • Are there biological programming effects for psychological development?: findings from a study of Romanian adoptees
  • Pubertal transitions in health
  • The life course as developmental theory
  • Part II. Influences on Development
  • Gene-environment interdependence
  • How people make their own environments: a theory of genotype →environment effects
  • Genetic influences on measures of the environment: a systematic review
  • How social experiences influence the brain
  • Cognitive and affective development in adolescence
  • Does stress damage the brain?
  • The influence of family, school, and the environment
  • How families matter in child development: reflections from research on risk and resilience
  • Socioeconomic status and child development
  • Lasting consequences of the summer learning gap
  • Personality differences in childhood and adulthood: measurement, development and consequences
  • Part III. Impairment and Disorder
  • 10-year research update review: the epidemiology of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders: I methods and public health burden
  • 10-year research update review: the epidemiology of childhood and adolescent psychiatric disorders: II developmental epidemiology
  • Natural categories or fundamental dimensions: on carving nature at the joints and the rearticulation of psychopathology
  • The British child and adolescent mental health survey 1999: the prevalence of DSM-IV disorders
  • Psychiatric disorder among British children looked after by local authorities: comparison with children living in private households
  • Comorbidity
  • Time trends in adolescent mental health
  • 20-year trends in emotional and behavioral problems in Dutch children in a changing society
  • Are American children's problems still getting worse? A 23-year comparison
  • Name Index