The high prevalence of drug abuse, delinquency, youth violence, and other youth problems
creates a need to identify and disseminate effective prevention strategies. General principles …

For 4 decades, vigorous efforts have been based on the premise that early intervention for
children of poverty and, more recently, for children with developmental disabilities can yield …

This paper presents a dynamic, ecologically informed approach to conceptualizing and
studying the transition to formal schooling. This perspective acknowledges that early school …

This article examined teachers' judgments of the prevalence and types of problems children
present upon entering kindergarten. A large, national sample of teachers (N= 3,595) was …

Developmental psychopathology seeks to unravel the complex connections among
biological, psychological, and social-contextual aspects of normal and abnormal …

Early differences in family SES, child language production, and IQ were related to outcomes
in early elementary school in the present prospective, 10‐year longitudinal study. In a prior …

This article presents an analysis of 5 views of factors that contribute to the adjustment of
children in divorced families or stepfamilies. These perspectives are those that emphasize …

Using rich longitudinal data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten
cohort (ECLS-K), we find that children who attended preschool enter public schools with …

This chapter is concerned with variations in the extent to which young children receive care
from adults other than their parents and the effects that such care arrangements have on …

This paper presents a conceptual framework that has guided three randomized, controlled
early intervention trials designed to improve cognitive development and social competence …