Child and Adolescent Development
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Developmental PsychologyText covering the progressive psychological changes that occur in learners up to adolescence.
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Child, Family, and Community
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Publication Date: 2019Over the years researchers have found the necessity to develop theories of behavior that are specific to family settings. These theories have been developed by people with a variety of areas of emphasis, from family therapists to gerontologists to child development specialists. In this chapter we will briefly discuss six such theories: Bioecological Model, Family Systems, Functionalism, Conflict Theory, Symbolic Interactionism, and Psychological Perspectives. -
Child Growth and Development
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Publication Date: 2018Welcome to Child Growth and Development. This text is a presentation of how and why children grow, develop, and learn. We will look at how we change physically over time from conception through adolescence. We examine cognitive change, or how our ability to think and remember changes over the first 20 years or so of life. And we will look at how our emotions, psychological state, and social relationships change throughout childhood and adolescence.
This book is also available as an adaptable Word file.
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Learning Space Childhood and Youth The Open UniversityThis site provides free courses on the topic of childhood and youth.
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American Academy of Child & Adolescent PsychiatryThis is a site dedicated to "Assisting parents and families in understanding developmental, behaviorial, emotional and mental disorders affecting children and adolescents."
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Behavior Breakthroughs App for iOSFree app. "Training application using simulations and an interactive environment to model and display a child's behavior based on interventions applied by the user."
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CALiO E-PublicationsFrom The Child Abuse Library Online (CALiO) of the National Children's Advocacy Center (NCAC), “full-text of publications that do not require fee or password. Many of the publications included in this collection were published by state and federal government agencies, and are in the public domain. Others were funded by foundations or other organizations for open access.”
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Child Development InstituteA site "designed to provide the information and tools parents need to understand their unique child/children and to enable them to help each child develop into the successful human being they were meant to be." Has useful sections about Ages/Stages, Development, Health/Safety, Psychology, and more.
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Child Development JournalA multidisciplinary, not-for-profit, professional association with an international membership of approximately 5,500 researchers, practitioners, and human development professionals. This site provides free access to some of the articles published in this journal.
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Child Development Research“Child Development Research is a peer-reviewed open-access journal that publishes original research articles as well as review articles in all areas of child development research.”
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Developmental Psychology Links by SubtopicFrom the Social Psychology Network, links related to infancy, adoption, childhood development, child protection, parenting, adolescence, and more. Organized by topic.
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Early Childhood Research & Practice (ECRP) JournalOpen-access, peer-reviewed, bilingual Internet journal in early care and education.
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PBS Learning MediaThe PBS Digital Learning Library is a public media system-wide repository of digital media learning objects, including videos, images, podcasts and documents.