Across 5 decades, hundreds of randomized trials have tested psychological therapies for
youth internalizing (anxiety, depression) and externalizing (misconduct, attention deficit and …

This report considers the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) curriculum
throughout Europe. It explores the official curriculum, specified by national or regional …

Using 6 longitudinal data sets, the authors estimate links between three key elements of
school readiness—school-entry academic, attention, and socioemotional skills—and later …

Preschoolers'(N= 143) patterns of emotional expressiveness, emotion regulation, and
emotion knowledge were assessed. Their contributions to social competence, as evidenced …

Our chapter investigates links between young children's skills and behaviors and their later
attainments. We begin with a conceptual framework for understanding early skills. We argue …

This article explored developmental and intervention evidence relevant to iatrogenic effects
in peer-group interventions. Longitudinal research revealed that “deviancy training” within …

After decades of rigorous study in the United States and across the Western world, a great
deal is known about the early risk factors for offending. High impulsiveness, low attainment …

Despite the fact that most people become parents and everyone who has ever lived has had
parents, parenting remains a mystifying subject about which almost everyone has opinions …

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

Research on human aggression has been a flourishing industry in the 20th century. As the
attention shifted from an instinctual paradigm to a drive paradigm and a social learning …