This report calls on the nation—its leaders, its mental health research and service provision
agencies, its schools, its primary care medical systems, its community-based organizations …

This volume reports the findings of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority
Children and Youth. The formal charge to the panel—a distinguished group of expert …

The present meta-analytic review examined effectiveness of the Incredible Years parent
training (IYPT) regarding disruptive and prosocial child behavior, and aimed to explain …

Background: School readiness, conceptualized as three components including emotional
self‐regulation, social competence, and family/school involvement, as well as absence of …

The ability of young children to manage their emotions and behaviors and to make
meaningful friendships is an important prerequisite for school readiness and academic …

A primary aim of the Chicago School Readiness Project was to improve teachers'
emotionally supportive classroom practices in Head Start-funded preschool settings. Using a …

According to a recent report of the Surgeon General (US Department of Health and Human
Services 1999), a range of treatments exist for most mental disorders, and the efficacy of …

Despite the potential of parent training as a prevention and behavioral family intervention
strategy, there are a number of important issues related to implementation (eg, recruitment …

Recent research in behavior analysis and clinical psychology points to the importance of
language processes having to do with the control of negative cognition and emotion and the …

This article reviews eight comprehensive social—emotional curricula for children under 6
years of age and describes two promising curricula currently under investigation. These …