Background Research on early adversity, stress biology, and child development has grown
exponentially in recent years. Findings We review the current evidence for the hypothalamic …

Childhood poverty is hypothesized to increase risk for mental and physical health problems
at least in part through dysregulation of the hypothalamic‐pituitary‐adrenal axis. However …

In the 1960s at Stanford University's Bing Preschool, children were given the option of taking
an immediate, smaller reward or receiving a delayed, larger reward by waiting until the …

Context: Developmental psychopathology theory suggests a relationship between early
childhood adversity and mental disorder. Objective: To examine the relationship between …

Early life stress is associated with a host of social, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral
difficulties for children later in life. These negative effects of early life stress are thought to be …

The literature review in this doctoral project examined the training needs of school
psychologists to support the psychological adjustment of foster youth in the public-school …

The present study examined associations between effortful control, a trait marker of self-
regulation, adaptive hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) system functioning (as reflected …