The growing body of scholarship on youth trauma in educational contexts has yielded
promising discoveries about resources, programs, and practices that may improve success …

This article synthesizes the work-related dynamics that contribute to economic inequality
and identifies ways for psychologists to offer their expertise to mitigate poverty through …

Child maltreatment is a preventable public health problem. Research has demonstrated that
neighborhood structural factors (eg poverty, crime) can influence the proportion of a …

Many scholars, policy analysts, and practitioners agree that neighborhoods are important
contexts for urban youth. Yet, despite decades of research, our knowledge of why and how …

Purpose: This study evaluated the relationship between parenting style, sociodemographic
data, caries status, and child's behavior during the first dental visit. Methods: Parents/legal …

Research suggests that direct exposure (personal victimization) and indirect exposure
(witnessing or hearing about the victimization of a family member, friend, or neighbor) to …

Research has demonstrated that exposure to violence can result in many negative
consequences for youth, but the degree to which neighborhood conditions may foster …

Research on neighborhoods and crime is on a remarkable growth trajectory. In this article,
we survey important recent developments in the scholarship on neighborhood effects and …

We use longitudinal multilevel modeling to test how exposure to community violence and
cognitive and behavioral factors contribute to the development of aggressive and prosocial …

This book examines after-school programs in light of their explosive growth in recent years.
In the rush to mount programs, there is a danger of promoting weak ones of little value and …