Abortion - Who Has Abortions?, When Abortion Was Illegal, Judicial And Legislative Rulings, Access To Abortion, Abstract Reasoning, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome - Epidemiology And Transmission, Developmental And Social Impact On The Child, Prevention, The Future Outlook, Acting Out, Activity Level, Adolescence - Grand Theories Of Adolescent Development, Biological Changes Associated With Puberty - Social Changes Associated with Adolescence in Western Industrialized Countries, Adoption - The Changing Nature Of Adoption, Psychological And Social Service Issues In Adoption, African-American Children - Family Structure, Academic, Cognitive, And Physical Well-being, Socioemotional Well-being - Sources of Strength and Buffers of Race-Related Stressors…
Birthweight - Low Birthweight, High Birthweight, Black English, Blended Families, John Bowlby (1907-1990), Brain Development - The Cerebral Cortex, Development Of The Cerebral Cortex, Regressive Events, Neuronal Activity, The Effect Of Experience On Brain Development, T. Berry Brazelton (1918-), Brazelton Neonatal Assessment Scale, Urie Bronfenbrenner (1917-), Jerome Bruner (1915-), Bullying, James Cattell (1860-1944), Cesarean Delivery - Historical Overview, Shifting Reasons For Cesarean Delivery, The Cesarean Operation, Complications Related To Cesarean Delivery, Child Abuse - Definitions Of Child Maltreatment, Incidence Of Child Maltreatment, Developmental Perspectives Of Child Maltreatment…
Corporal Punishment, Court Appointed Special Advocate Associate Program, Critical/Sensitive Periods - Language Development: Critical Or Sensitive Period?, Infant-parent Attachment: A Critical/sensitive Period For Social Development, Crying - The Physiology Of Crying, The Crying Of Newborns, The Crying Of Infants, The Crying Of Toddlers - Conclusion, Dating - Who Dates When?, Steady Versus Multiple Dating, Dating And Sex, Not Dating - Conclusions, Day Care - Types Of Day Care And Demographic Information, Effects Of Day Care, Day Care As A Social Phenomenon - Conclusion…
Gender-Role Development - The Development of Sex and Gender, Generation Gap, Genetic Counseling, Genotype, Arnold Gesell (1880-1961), Gifted Children, Haim G. Ginott (1922-1973), Grandparents, Growth Rate, Granville Stanley Hall (1844-1924), Handedness, Harry Harlow (1905-1981), Head Start, Health Insurance - Medical Coverage For America: Past And Present, Providing Children With Health Insurance, The Children Left Behind, Healthy Start, Hearing Loss and Deafness - Levels Of Hearing Loss, Sign Languages, Deafness In Relation To Language And Social Development, Education Of Deaf Children: Research Findings…
William Kessen (1925-1999), Klinefelter'S Syndrome, Lawrence Kohlberg (1927-1987), Laissez-Faire Parents, Language Acquisition Device, Language Development - Languages As An Orchestral Work In Progress, Language Development When Things Go Awry: Everyday Problems, Latchkey Children - Prevalence, Dilemmas For Parents, Mixed Empirical Findings, Programs, Conclusions, Lead Poisoning, Learning - Classical Or Respondent Conditioning, Operant Or Instrumental Conditioning, Relationship Of Learning To School Performance - Observational Learning, Learning Disabilities - Definition Of Learning Disabilities, The Discrepancy Issue, Learning Disability Subtypes, Causes And Diagnosis, Outcomes - Conclusions…
Motor Development - Transition From Reflex Movement To Voluntary Movement, Principles Of Development, Motor Milestones, Assessment Of Gross Motor And Fine Motor Development, Natural Childbirth, Naturalistic Observation, Neonate, Nutrition - Infancy, Early Childhood, Middle Childhood, Adolescence, Government Nutrition Assistance Programs, Obesity - Definition, Causes, Consequences, Treatment, Object Permanence, Observational Learning, Parallel Play, Parent-Child Relationships - Infancy And The Preschool Years, Middle Childhood, Adolescence, Summary, Parental Leave, Parenting - Who Is Socializing U.s. Children?, Qualitative Aspects Of Parenting, Parenting Style, Parent-child Interaction - Quantitative Aspects of Parenting…
Retention, Rh Disease, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), Rubella, Rural Children, Scholastic Aptitude Test, School Vouchers, Self-Concept, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, Selfishness, Sensory Development - Touch, Taste And Smell, Movement Sensations, Auditory System, Visual System, Sensory Systems In Concert - Body Position Sense, Separation Anxiety, Sex Education, Sexual Activity - Adolescent Sexual Behavior, Consequences Of Adolescent Sexual Behavior, Other Adolescent Sexuality Issues, Shyness, Siblings and Sibling Relationships - Individual Siblings' Temperaments, Skills That Siblings Learn From One Another, Parents' Guidance And Sibling Conflict…
Surrogate Motherhood, Swaddling of Infants, Symbolic Thought, Tabula Rasa, Tay-Sachs Disease, Teenage Pregnancy - Incidence Of Teenage Pregnancy, Teenage Pregnancy And Later Outcomes, Public Policy And Teenage Pregnancy, Television - What Can One Do About Television And Children? - How Do Children Use Television?, How Are Children Affected by Television?, Temper Tantrums, Temperament - Three Common Elements Of Temperament Characteristics, Measuring Temperament, Biological Factors, Environmental Factors, Teratogens, Theories of Development - The Mechanistic Worldview, The Organismic Worldview, The Contextualist Worldview, Theory of Mind…
Employment Trends - The Sectors - A Century Of Change, The Sectors - The Last 20 Years, Services -where More And More People Work, The Workforce - The Aging Workforce And Its Effects On The Future Job Market, Baby-boomer Retirement Effects, Trends in Occupations - Fastest Growing Occupations, Most Rapidly Declining Occupations, Are We Too Educated For The Future Job Market?, People and Their Money - Income: The Richest Get Richer, Income Trends: Then And Now, The Income Gap Between Rich And Poor, Technology People and Productivity - Productivity In A Nutshell, The Steady Rise Of Productivity, Domestic Output And The Role Of Technology…
Who Are We - Births Of A Nation, Are Births Replacing Deaths?, Total Fertility: Blacks And Whites, Total Fertility: Ethnic And Racial Detail, Where Do We Live - Town And Country, Now And Then, Urbanization And Density, Housing Trends: Big Is Beautiful, The Family - Households In The U.s., Family Households With Children, Mom, Dad, And Two Children — Does The Pattern Still Hold?, Ethnicity & Immigration - Minorities Within Minorities: An Overview, Minorities: American Indians, Minorities: Asians, Minorities: Linguistic…
The State of Our Health - Causes Of Death — Then And Now, Causes Of Death — A Closer Look, Causes Of Death: Women Compared To Men, Diseases - Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Hiv/aids Close-up, Childhood Diseases: No Permanent Victories, Prevention - If It's "natural," It Must Be Better, Or Every Man His Own Doctor, Risky Behavior - Dining Out May Be Hazardous To Your Health…, … But Dining In May Sicken You, School Lunch: Maybe Kids Were Right All Along…
Crime Overview - Indexes Of Crime, Violent Crime, Property Crime, Other Crimes And Offenses, Drug War Trends: Arrests, Violent Crime - Violent Crimes Are Down, A Century Of Murder, The Poorer You Are, The More Vulnerable To Violent Crime, Property Crime - An Introduction To Property Crime, Introduction To Property Crime: The Arrests, Thou Shalt Not Steal, Lesser Crimes & Offenses - Lesser Offenses In Perspective, Lesser Offenses: The Big Five, Lesser Offenses: Abuse Is Up, Kids - How Safe Are Our Schools?, School Safety: Metal Detectors In Every School?, The Bad Seed…