compared to experimental and human sciences, law has never been productive but it has always utilized the results and information obtained through other sciences, psychology in particular. therefore, new psychological findings about memory and age could both and must be taken into account in law as concerns interpretation and making judgment. psychological findings show judges rely on the testi...

OBJECTIVE To provide a framework for critically evaluating qualitative research to professionals interested in pediatric psychology. Qualitative methods emphasize the phenomenological experience of participants and may be pertinent to studying contextual factors that contribute to child health and well-being. METHOD A basic overview of the types of qualitative research, methodological procedu...

BACKGROUND Recently, there has been a growing awareness of the importance of the roles of fathers in understanding normative developmental processes. Increased attention has been given to the roles of fathers in the area of clinical child research and therapy. However, the presence of fathers in research and treatment in pediatric psychology has not been fully examined. OBJECTIVE To explore t...

Perinatal clinical psychology deals with infant mental development, primary parent-child relationships, and problems related to nurturing and parenting activities of the woman and the couple during the prenatal and neonatal period. Its aims are promoting positive influences and preventing risk elements for the child’s development and for the parents raising the child, thus providing support to ...

Chao-Gan Yan, Zhen Yang, Stanley J. Colcombe, Xi-Nian Zuo, Michael P. Milham CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Beijing, China; Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research Center, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric...

Robert Cohen, professor of psychology at Memphis State University (Tennessee), is editor of The Development of Spatial Cognition. n Alexander W. Siegel, professor of psychology and director of the training program in developmental psychology at the University of Houston (Texas), is coeditor, with P. R. Costanzo, of a special issue of the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology titled “Social C...

1 Research Institute Brainclinics, Nijmegen, Netherlands, Department of Experimental Psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands, Department of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, University Hospital of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany, 4 kbo-Heckscher-Klinikum, München, Germany, 5 Laboratory for Neurology and Imaging of Cognition, Department of Neurosciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, ...

Center on Teaching & Learning, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA; Department of Education and Child Studies, University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands; Department of Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, USA; Department of Psychology and School of Education and Social Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA; Department of Education...