Traditional approaches for working with children and families in the schools focus on problems and disturbance. The concept of positive psychology as a way to change this focus is offered through exploration of its integration within school psychology. Specifically, the application of positive psychology can form the basis of preventive practices within the school setting. Examples of this appl...

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People's experiences // Cognitive processing and psychology. Question 2 Information about how psychologists define schema theory. A comparison. Gender schema theory suggests that young children are influenced by society's and has a master's in counseling psychology and business administration. This article presents an overview of schema theory, a learning theory that explains how prior Tompkins...

We assessed whether recent psychological literature on children reflects or contrasts with the zeitgeist of American Psychological Association’s recent non-discrimination statement on ‘transgender’ and ‘gender variant’ individuals. Article records (N = 94) on childhood ‘gender identity’ and ‘expression’ published between 1999 and 2008 inclusive were evaluated for two kinds of cisgenderism, the ...

Sandra N. Moses1,2,3, Faith M. Hanlon4,5 and Jennifer D. Ryan3,6,7 1Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, 2Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, 3Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest, Toronto, 4The Mind Research Network, Albuquerque, NM, 5Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 6Department of Psychology, Unive...

DYSLEXIA 11: 292–310 (2005) Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/dys.309 & Auditory and Speech Processing and Reading Development in Chinese School Children: Behavioural and ERP Evidence Xiangzhi Meng, Xiaoguang Sai, Cixin Wang, Jue Wang, Shuying Sha and Xiaolin Zhou 1 Department of Psychology, Peking University, China 2 The Research Center of Psycho...

OBJECTIVE To describe a psychology behavioral screening service and the use of the service in subsequent primary care provider (PCP) treatment decisions. METHODS The goal of the behavioral screening service was to obtain standardized parent and teacher rating scale data for children identified by PCPs as having possible behavioral problems. Medical chart review data were collected on 147 chil...