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An exploratory study of child-centered play therapy with aggressive children.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Children exhibiting aggressive problem behaviors typically reach a peak of aggressive acts at an early age, providing evidence that early intervention for aggression is needed. Child-centered play therapy (CCPT) is 1 intervention that offers the child an environment in which aggression can be expressed and empathically responded to by a play therapist. Forty-one elementary school age children were assigned to a CCPT condition or a wait-list control group condition. Children who participated in 14 sessions of CCPT showed a moderate decrease in aggressive behaviors over children in the control group, according to effect size...
Source: International Journal of Play Therapy - July 21, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Ray, Dee C.; Blanco, Pedro J.; Sullivan, Jeffrey M.; Holliman, Ryan Source Type: journals

Moyamoya: to cut or not to cut is not the only question. A paediatric neurologist's perspectiveEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The paediatric neurologist is usually the clinician who makes the diagnosis of moyamoya in children, yet most of the debate in the literature has focused on surgical management of the condition. Semantic confusion and variable use of the term among neuroradiologists continues to be unhelpful. Increasing recognition of moyamoya, for example in sickle cell disease, and the publication of clinical guidelines encouraging referral for surgical evaluation highlight the need to identify and engage with management of the condition. In practical terms, the most frequent management issues for the paediatric neurologist, other than w...
Source: Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology - November 7, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: VIJEYA GANESAN Source Type: journals

Play therapy for children with fetal alcohol syndrome.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article presents an overview of current data on FAS, an argument for the use of child-centered play therapy for children diagnosed FAS, and suggests areas of research needs. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: International Journal of Play Therapy)
Source: International Journal of Play Therapy - October 20, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Liles, Elisabeth E.; Packman, Jill Source Type: journals

The practitioner as researcher: Qualitative case studies in play therapy.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
To help clinicians better understand case study research and encourage clinicians to share valuable experiences with others in the field, this article will define case study, identify the components of case studies, review critical considerations in case studies, and provide a recommended template for qualitative case studies. Fifteen case studies published in the International Journal of Play Therapy will be examined to review the process of these case studies, and the potential contribution of the study to illustrate the use of play therapy. Suggestions for further directions in the area of case study methodology in play...
Source: International Journal of Play Therapy - October 20, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Snow, Marilyn S.; Wolff, Lori; Hudspeth, Edward F.; Etheridge, Lynn Source Type: journals

Children's ability to distinguish between enjoyment and non-enjoyment smilesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
was investigated by presenting participants with short video excerpts of smiles. Enjoyment smiles differed from non-enjoyment smiles by greater symmetry and by appearance changes produced in the eye region by the Cheek Raiser action. The results indicate that 6- and 7-year-old children have the abilities to detect these differences and are able to interpret them with above chance-level accuracy. Sensitivity was higher for the symmetry of the smiles than for the appearance changes produced in the eye region and improved in later childhood. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (Source: Infant and Child Development)
Source: Infant and Child Development - November 5, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Pierre Gosselin, Mélanie Perron, Reem Maassarani Source Type: journals

The Routledge Companion to Dyslexia – Edited by Gavin ReidEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: British Journal of Special Education)
Source: British Journal of Special Education - November 16, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Tony Cline Tags: Book Reviews Source Type: journals

'I bet you know more and are nicer too!': what children infer from others' accuracyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Research has shown that preschoolers monitor others' prior accuracy and prefer to learn from individuals who have the best track record. We investigated the scope of preschoolers' attributions based on an individual's prior accuracy. Experiment 1 revealed that 5-year-olds (but not 4-year-olds) used an individual's prior accuracy at labelling to predict her knowledge of words and broader facts; they also showed a 'halo effect' predicting she would be more prosocial. Experiment 2 confirmed that, overall, 4-year-olds did not make explicit generalizations of knowledge. These findings suggest that an individual's prior accuracy...
Source: Developmental Science - November 13, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Patricia E. Brosseau-Liard, Susan A.J. Birch Source Type: journals

Memory Binding in Early Childhood: Evidence for a Retrieval DeficitEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Previous research has suggested that performance for items requiring memory-binding processes improves between ages 4 and 6 (J. Sluzenski, N. Newcombe, & S. L. Kovacs, 2006). The present study suggests that much of this improvement is due to retrieval, as opposed to encoding, deficits for 4-year-olds. Four- and 6-year-old children (N = 48 per age) were given objects, backgrounds, and object + background combinations to remember. Younger children performed equivalently to 6-year-olds during a working memory task for all types of memory questions but were impaired during a long-term memory task for the object + background co...
Source: Child Development - September 13, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Marianne E. Lloyd, Ayzit O. Doydum, Nora S. Newcombe Tags: EMPIRICAL REPORT Source Type: journals

Ophthalmological, cognitive, electrophysiological and MRI assessment of visual processing in preterm children without major neuromotor impairmentEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Many studies report chronic deficits in visual processing in children born preterm. We investigated whether functional abnormalities in visual processing exist in children born preterm but without major neuromotor impairment (i.e. cerebral palsy). Twelve such children (< 33 weeks gestation or birthweight < 1000 g) without major neuromotor impairment and 12 born full-term controls were assessed at 8[ndash]12 years of age by means of ophthalmological assessment (visual acuity, colour vision, stereopsis, stereoacuity, visual fields, ocular motility, motor fusion), cognitive tests of visual-motor, visual-perceptual and visual-...
Source: Developmental Science - October 27, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Michelle O'Reilly, Brigitte Vollmer, Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, Brian Neville, Alan Connelly, John Wyatt, Chris Timms, Michelle de Haan Source Type: journals

Knowing how we know: Evidentiality and cognitive developmentEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Evidentials are grammatical elements such as affixes and particles indicating the source of knowledge. We provide an overview of this grammatical category and consider three research domains to which developmental studies on evidentiality contribute: the acquisition of linguistic means to characterize knowledge, the conceptual understanding of knowledge sources, and the evaluation of others' testimony. We also consider the study of evidentiality in relation to the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis about the influence of language on thought. © Wiley Periodicals, Inc. (Source: New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development)
Source: New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development - August 31, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Tomoko Matsui, Stanka A. Fitneva Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals

Transition partnerships: the views of education professionals and staff in support services for young people with learning disabilitiesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Transition to post-statutory education and employment for young people with learning disabilities has become a hotly debated issue among professionals in education and support services in the UK. Partnerships between educational institutions and voluntary sector providers are supposed to be ideal vehicles for delivering transition services and securing outcomes for young people with learning disabilities. In this article, Axel Kaehne and Stephen Bayer of the Welsh Centre for Learning Difficulties report the findings of a survey of the views of special educational needs co-ordinators and professionals who are involved at op...
Source: British Journal of Special Education - August 6, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Axel Kaehne, Stephen Beyer Tags: Research Section Source Type: journals

How individuals with phenylketonuria experience their illness: an age-related qualitative studyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions This study constitutes a first attempt at understanding PKU from a non-medical-biological perspective. (Source: Child: Care, Health and Development)
Source: Child: Care, Health and Development - September 3, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: E. Vegni, L. Fiori, E. Riva, M. Giovannini, E. A. Moja Source Type: journals

Sporadic hemiplegic migraine and delayed cerebral oedema after minor head trauma: a novel de novo CACNA1A gene mutationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology)
Source: Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology - October 6, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Timothy J Malpas, Florence Riant, Elisabeth Tournier-Lasserve, Katayoun Vahedi, Brian GR Neville Source Type: journals

Peer group homogeneity in adolescents' school adjustment varies according to peer group type and genderEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study investigated whether the members of adolescents' peer groups are similar in terms of their school adjustment and whether this homogeneity varies according to peer group type and gender. A total of 1262 peer group members who had recently moved to post-comprehensive education filled in questionnaires measuring their academic achievement, satisfaction with their educational track, school engagement, and school burnout. They also gave positive peer nominations on the basis of which 360 peer groups were identified and categorized as cliques, loose groups, and isolate dyads. The results showed that the members of ado...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - January 9, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Kiuru, N., Nurmi, J.-E., Aunola, K., Salmela-Aro, K. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Parenting in the Breach: How Parents Help Children Cope with Developmentally Challenging CircumstancesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article advocates for a new focus in the area parenting science; namely, how parents help their children cope with and recover from events and conditions that threaten serious disruption to normal, healthy development. These events and conditions, or... (Source: Parenting)
Source: Parenting - July 27, 2007 Category: Child Development Source Type: journals

book review: Food and Health in Early Childhood: A Holistic Approach Albon, Deborah and Mukherji, Penny. London: SAGE, 2008, 171 pp. ISBN 978 1 4129 4722 0, {pound}17.99 (pbk)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research)
Source: Journal of Early Childhood Research - January 20, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Smith, S. Tags: Article Source Type: journals

Nap-dependent learning in infantsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Sleep has been shown to aid a variety of learning and memory processes in adults (Stickgold, 2005). Recently, we showed that infants' learning also benefits from subsequent sleep such that infants who nap are able to abstract the general grammatical pattern of a briefly presented artificial language (Gomez, Bootzin & Nadel, 2006). In the present study, we demonstrate, for the first time, long-term effects of sleep on memory for an artificial language. Fifteen-month-old infants who had napped within 4 hours of language exposure remembered the general grammatical pattern of the language 24 hours later. In contrast, infants w...
Source: Developmental Science - April 6, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Almut Hupbach, Rebecca L. Gomez, Richard R. Bootzin, Lynn Nadel Source Type: journals

Hand movements at 3 months predict later hemiplegia in term infants with neonatal cerebral infarctionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Aim The aim of this study was to explore the predictive value of quantitative assessment of hand movements in 3-month-old infants after neonatal stroke.Method Thirteen infants born at term (five females, eight males; mean gestational age 39.4wks, SD 1.19, range 37[ndash]41wks; mean birthweight 3240g, SD 203, range 2900[ndash]3570g) with neonatal arterial ischaemic cerebral infarction, and 13 healthy infants (mean gestational age 39.1wks, range 37[ndash]41wks, SD 1.26; mean birthweight 3190g, SD 259, range 2680[ndash]3490g) were enrolled in the study. The absolute frequency and the asymmetry of global hand opening and closi...
Source: Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology - October 22, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: ANDREA GUZZETTA, ALESSANDRA PIZZARDI, VITTORIO BELMONTI, ANTONIO BOLDRINI, MARCO CAROTENUTO, GIULIA D'ACUNTO, FABRIZIO FERRARI, SIMONA FIORI, CLAUDIO GALLO, PAOLO GHIRRI, EUGENIO MERCURI, DOMENICO ROMEO, MARIA FEDERICA ROVERSI, GIOVANNI CIONI Source Type: journals

The Development of Rational Imitation in 9- and 12-Month-Old InfantsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Infancy)
Source: Infancy - January 1, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Zmyj, NorbertDaum, Moritz M.Aschersleben, Gisa Source Type: journals

Adolescent Overweight and Obesity: Links to Food Insecurity and Individual, Maternal, and Family StressorsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: Policies addressing adolescent obesity should consider the benefits to reducing the individual stressors facing low-income adolescents and, for food insecure adolescents, the benefits to reducing their mothers' stressors. (Source: Journal of Adolescent Health)
Source: Journal of Adolescent Health - April 26, 2009 Category: Child Development Authors: Brenda J. Lohman, Susan Stewart, Craig Gundersen, Steven Garasky, Joey C. Eisenmann Tags: Original Articles Source Type: journals