Longitudinal study of 2 cohorts of children selected in the second or third year of life to be extremely cautious and shy (inhibited) or fearless and outgoing (uninhibited) to unfamiliar events revealed preservation of these 2 behavioral qualities through the sixth year of life. Additionally, more of the inhibited children showed signs of activation in 1 or more of the physiological circuits th...

Legal and policy questions relevant to the lives of lesbian and gay parents and their children have recently been subjects of vigorous debate. Among the issues for which psychological research has been seen as particularly relevant are questions regarding child custody after divorce, same-sex marriage, adoption, and foster care. This article provides an overview of the current legal terrain for...

Psychosocial distress and poorer quality of life after renal transplantation are common in children and young people. This has implications for medication adherence and survival. Posttransplant psychology annual reviews were introduced in one Paediatric Renal Service in the UK as a means of measuring psychological distress and quality of life, as well as facilitating identification of patients ...

This paper investigates the effects of screen time on child development and cognition setting ‘safe’ limits for young children, specifically children aged 6-to-12 years. Guidelines vary across constituencies, debate around is contentious with many questions yet to be answered. A review literature was undertaken compare current recommendations against evidence from Neuroscience, Psychiatr...

M of the research on pre­ using a variety of assessment instruments from a Seattle cohort of children studied natal alcohol exposure has on children at various ages from infancy by Streissguth and colleagues (1983). focused on the hypothesis to late childhood. These children were born to approxi­ that drinking during preg­ One important issue is the level of mately 5001 predominantly white, mid...

Requests for reprints should be sent to Dr Janet Strayer, Psychology Department, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada. Email: strayer6sfu.ca This research was supported by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. We would like to express our thanks to the parents, teachers, children, and best friends whose participation made this project possible.

S Parkinson,* V Dunn,* E Stapley, N Midgley. Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, UK; Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, UK; Creative Research Collective, UK; National Institute of Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (NIHR CLAHRC) East of England, UK/ Department of Psychiatr...

We engaged almost 400 Canadian children aged five through eight years in a series of activities that were designed to reveal their beliefs about, self-identification with, and discrimination towards three ethnically phenotypic categories (White, East Asian, and South Asian). Our experiments took place at the children’s schools during their normal school day, allowing us to evaluate the salience...