1 Neuropsychology Doctoral Subprogram, Department of Psychology, The Graduate Center of CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY, 10016, 2 Neuropsychology Doctoral Subprogram, Department of Psychology, The Graduate Center of CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY, 10016, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Mount Sinai Medical Center, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1230, NY, NY 10029, 4 Department of Psychology, Que...

Despite their major differences, there is one notable area of agreement between psychodynamic and behavioral models of addiction: both place significant emphasis on past experience. For Freud especially, the famous line from Wordsworth’s poem, “The child is the father of the man,” was a profound truth, and he was convinced that adult character is shaped during the first 5 or 6 years of life. Ch...

Since 1986, I have served as president of the James S. McDonnell Foundation, a charitable trust. The foundation has supported research in cognitive psychology, including its applications to education and rehabilitation, helped establish cognitive neuroscience to link psychology with systems neuroscience, and funded international programs in child health, such as the Task Force on Hepatitis-B Im...

Jody S. Nicholson, Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame; Kimberley S. Howard, National Center for Children and Families, Teachers College, Columbia University; John G. Borkowski, Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame. The first author was supported by Grant Number T32 HD07184-27 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The second author was s...

The European Early Childhood Education Research Journal (EECERJ) defines its scope as being ‘multidisciplinary, embracing all related fields including psychology, sociology, child health and social...

Few issues are of such grave importance to society and to the science and practice of psychology as child maltreatment. Our goal in editing this issue of JSI was to inform scientists across various sub-fields of psychology about the most current knowledge in the field of child maltreatment, broadly defined. The authors of the articles have gone further, pushing past the edge of current knowledg...

400 This project was supported in part by an Internship Research Grant by the Brown University Clinical Psychology Training Consortium and by National Institute of Child Health and Human Development grant HD048664 awarded to B.E. Gibb. Address correspondence to Marie Grassia, Department of Psychology, Binghamton University (SUNY), Binghamton, NY 13902-6000. E-mail: [email protected]....

Diagnosing and assessing child abuse is a critical and difficult process in clinical psychology, because this phenomenon has several negative behavioral and psychological consequences on victims. The aim of this research is to create a scale for assessing child abuse and neglect. Through a multiclustral sampling, 3042 secondary school students (boys and girls) were selected to fill (1) a li...