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…
Child Custody and Support - Historical Overview Of Custody Law, Factors In Determining The Child's Best Interest, The Number Of Children In Custody Allocations, Children With Special Health Care Needs, Children'S Rights, Chronic Illness, Chronological Age, Circumcision, Class Size, Classical Conditioning, Cleft Lip/Cleft Palate, Cliques, Cognitive Development - Overview Of Cognitive Development, Piaget's Theory Of Cognitive Development, Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory, Cognitive Style - Leveling And Sharpening, Field-dependence And Field-independence, Reflectivity And Impulsivity…
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…
Mediation - How Mediation Works, How Mediation Affects The Settlement Process, How Mediation Affects Parents And Children, Meiosis, Memory - Overview Of The Memory System, The Developmental Onset Of Memory, Developmental Changes In Information Processing Capacity, Menarche, Menstrual Cycle, Mental Age, Mental Disorders - Disruptive or Externalizing Behavior Disorders, Emotional or Internalizing Disorders, Other Disorders, Mental Retardation - Causes Of Mental Retardation, Prevention Of Mental Retardation, Public Policy Regarding Mental Retardation, The Future Of Accommodating Mental Retardation, Metacognition, Methods of Studying Children - Qualitative Methods Of Child Study, Quantitative Methods Of Child Study, Longitudinal Versus Cross-sectional Studies…
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…
Teenage Pregnancy - Incidence Of Teenage Pregnancy, Teenage Pregnancy And Later Outcomes, Public Policy And Teenage Pregnancy, Television - 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, Three Mountain Task, Title (Maternal V and Child Health Services Block Grant), Touch, Toys, Truancy, Turner Syndrome…