The Child

Abandonment and Infanticide
Ability Grouping
Abortion

• Psychological Perspectives
• Legal and Public-Policy Perspectives

Abuse and Neglect

• Historical and Cultural Perspectives
• Effects on the Child
• Legal and Public-Policy Perspectives

Accidents and Injuries
Addams, Jane
Adolescence
Adolescent Decision Making, Legal Perspectives on
Adoption

• Historical and Cultural Perspectives
• Effects on the Child
• Legal and Public-Policy Perspectives

Adult Criminal Justice System, Children in the
Advanced Placement Program
Advertising
Advice Literature, Popular
Affirmative Action, Children and
African American Children
African Societies and Cultures, Childhood and Adolescence in
Aggression
Ainsworth, Mary D(insmore) Salter
Allergic Diseases

• How a Green Race Car Helped Randy Cope with Asthma (IEO)

American History, Childhood and Adolescence in
Ancient Mediterranean World, Childhood and Adolescence in
Animism
Apprenticeship

• Learning to Weave in a Maya Community (IEO)

Ariès, Philippe
Aristotle
Artistic Development
Arts Education
Asian American Children
Asian Societies and Cultures, Childhood and Adolescence in
Athletic Development
Attachment, Infant
Attachment Disturbances and Disorders
Attention
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Authority and Obedience

• Formality and Fun in Kinship Relations among the Gusii (IEO)

Autism Spectrum Disorders

• Muslim Children with Autism Learn to Pray (IEO)

Autism Spectrum Disorders, Education of Children with

Baby and Child Selling
Baldwin, James Mark
Bateson, Gregory
Bedwetting
Benedict, Ruth (Fulton)
Best Interests of the Child
Bettelheim, Bruno
Bilingual Education
Bilingualism
Binet, Alfred
Birth Order
Birthmarks
Blindness
Blood Disorders
Blood Types
Boarding Schools

• Perfecting Gender in a New England Boarding School (IEO)

Body Image and Modification

• Marks Make the Man in Kenya (IEO)

Books on Child Development, Landmark
Bowlby, John
Brace, Charles Loring
Breastfeeding
Buddhism
Built Environment, Children and the
Bullying

Camps, Summer
Cancer
Catholicism
Child

• Historical and Cultural Perspectives
• Religious and Philosophical Perspectives
• Physiological Perspectives
• Legal and Public-Policy Perspectives

Child Care

• Historical and Cultural Perspectives
• Aía Ke Ola I Na Kupuna: Family-Based Care in Native Hawaiian Culture (IEO)
• Effects on the Child
• Legal and Public-Policy Perspectives

Child Support
Childbearing, Adolescent

• Launching a Reproductive Career in Kenya (IEO)

Childhood Resilience
Circumcision, Female

• Empowering Girls in Sierra Leone: Initiation into the Bondo Society (IEO)

Circumcision, Male
Civic Education
Clark, Kenneth B(ancroft)
Class Size
Classroom Culture
Clerc, (Louis) Laurent (Marie)
Cognitive Development
Combat, Youth in
Comfort Habits
Comic Books
Communication, Development of
Community Service and Service-Learning
Computers

• Computers as Learning Tools
• Computer Games
• The Internet

Concepts, Children’s

• Overview
• Concepts of the Physical World
• Concepts of the Psychological World
• Concepts of the Social World

Conduct, Legal Regulation of Children’s
Conduct Disorders
Confucianism and Taoism
Confucius
Congenital Anomalies and Deformations
Consumers, Children as
Contraception
Corporal Punishment
Creativity
Crime, Juvenile
Crime Victims, Children as
Criminal Procedure, Children and
Critical Periods
Critical Thinking
Crying and Colic
Cults
Curriculum
Custody

Dance
Darwin, Charles (Robert)
Davis, Kingsley
Davis, (William) Allison
Deafness

• Growing Up Hearing in a Deaf Family (IEO)

Death, Children’s Experience of
Death Penalty, Children and the
Demography of Childhood

• United States
• International Perspectives

Dependency, Legal
Depression
Development, Concept of
Development, Theories of

• Overview
• Behavioral Theories
• Cognitive Theories
• Dynamic Systems Theories
• Psychoanalytic Theories
• Social Contextual Theories

Developmental Delays
Dewey, John
Disabilities, Care of Children with

• Medical Perspectives
• Legal and Public-Policy Perspectives

Discipline and Punishment
Domestic Violence
Dropouts
Drug Testing

Ear Infections
Eastern Orthodoxy
Eating and Nutrition
Eating Disorders
Education

• Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
• Legal and Public-Policy Perspectives

Education, Discrimination in

• Overview
• Gender Discrimination
• Racial Discrimination

Education, Informal

• Literacy without Schooling among the Vai of Liberia (IEO)

Emancipation
Embryology and Fetal Development
Emotional Development

• Trial by Fire: Emotional Socialization among Canadian Inuit (IEO)

Emotional Disorders, Education of Children with
Empathy

• The Parenting Style of a Turkish Reformer (IEO)

Endocrine Disorders
Erikson, Erik H(omburger)
Ethnic Identity
European History, Childhood and Adolescence in
Evolution of Childhood, Biological
Exercise and Physical Activity
Extracurricular Activities

Family

• Historical and Cultural Perspectives
• Memories of Childhood on an Israeli Kibbutz (IEO)
• Economic and Demographic Perspectives
• Legal and Public-Policy Perspectives

Family Court
Family Systems Theories
Father-Child Relationship
Fears, Phobias, and Anxiety Disorders
Federalism and Families
Feeding, Infant
Fertility
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
Fetus, Legal Status of the
Films
Firearms
Folk and Fairy Tales

• A Far-Flung Fairy Tale: Beauty and the Beast (IEO)

Folklore, Children’s
Food Aversions and Preferences

• Learning to Like Chili Peppers (IEO)

Foreign Language Education
Foster and Kinship Care

• Historical and Cultural Perspectives
• Legal and Public-Policy Perspectives

Freedom of Speech
Freire, Paulo (Reglus Neves)
Freud, Anna
Freud, Sigmund
Friendship
Froebel, Friedrich (Wilhelm August)

Gallaudet, Edward Miner
Galton, Francis
Gangs
Gastrointestinal Disorders
Gay and Lesbian Parents
Gender

• Historical and Cultural Perspectives
• Gender Development
• Legal and Public-Policy Perspectives

Genetics

• Overview
• Genetic Testing
• Behavioral Genetics

Gesell, Arnold (Lucius)
Gestures
Ghosts
Gifted and Talented, Education of Children Identified as
Giftedness
Goldstein, Joseph
Goode, William J(osiah)
Grades and Grading
Grandparents
Guardianship

Hall, G(ranville) Stanley
Handedness
Harlow, Harry F(rederick)
Head Start
Headaches
Health, Disparities in
Health and Sex Education
Health Care Funding
Health Care Systems for Children

• United States
• Treating Hmong Children in America: Two Case Studies (IEO)
• International Perspectives

Health Screening
Health Supervision
Hearing

• Development of Hearing
• Hearing Abnormalities

Hearing Impairments, Education of Children with
Heart Disorders and Diseases
Helfer, Ray(mond) E(ugene)
Hinduism
Home Schooling

• Educated at Home in the United States (IEO)

Homelessness
Homework
Homosexuality and Bisexuality

• Historical and Cultural Perspectives
• Physiological and Psychological Perspectives
• Legal and Public-Policy Perspectives

Hospitalization
Human Immunodeficiency Viral Syndrome

• U.S. Medical Perspectives
• International Medical Perspectives
• Legal and Public-Policy Perspectives

Identity
Illness and Injury, Children’s Experience of

• Summer Camp for Diabetic Children: A Stigma-Free Zone (IEO)

Imitation
Immigration, Children and

• Historical and Cultural Perspectives
• Effects on the Child
• Legal and Public-Policy Perspectives
  

Immune Disorders
Immunizations
Incest
Independence, Dependence, and Interdependence
Infectious Diseases
Inhelder, Bärbel
Innocence, Childhood
Insurance, Children and
Intellectual Disability
Intellectual Disability, Education of Children with
Intelligence
Intelligence Testing
International Baccalaureate Program
International Rights of the Child
Islam
Islamic Societies and Cultures, Childhood and Adolescence in
Itard, Jean-Marc-Gaspard

James, William
Judaism
Juvenile Court
Juvenile Delinquency
Juvenile Justice System

Kempe, C(harles) Henry
Kidnapping
Kidney and Urinary Tract Disorders and Diseases
Kinship and Child Rearing
Klein, Melanie (Reizes)
Kohlberg, Lawrence

Labor and Delivery
Language

• Language Development
• Language and Social Life
• Our Language: A Friendship That Transcended Linguistic and Cultural Borders (IEO)

Language Disorders and Delay
Lathrop, Julia Clifford
Latin American Societies and Cultures, Childhood and Adolescence in
Latino Children in the United States
Lead Poisoning
Learning
Learning Disabilities
Learning Disabilities, Education of Children with
Legal Representation of Children
Leisure Time, Family
Literacy
Literature

• Children’s Literature
• Children’s Engagement with Literature
• The Luminous Books of Childhood (IEO)

Liver Disorders and Diseases
Locke, John
Logical Thinking
Lorenz, Konrad (Zacharias)

Magazines
Magical Thinking
Malnutrition and Undernutrition
Mann, Horace
Marital and Nonmarital Unions

• Historical and Cultural Perspectives
• Legal and Public-Policy Perspectives

Marketplace, Children and the
Masturbation
Mathematics

• Counting on the Body: Arithmetic Learning in Oksapmin Culture (IEO)

Mead, Margaret
Media, Children and the
Medical Care and Procedures, Consent to
Medicines and Children

• Overview
• Anesthesia and Analgesia
• Antibiotics
• Psychotropic Medicines

Memory
Mental Health Care

• Historical and Cultural Perspectives
• Legal and Public-Policy Perspectives

Mental Illness
Mental Processes
Metabolic Disorders
Montessori, Maria
Moore, Anne Carroll
Moral Development

• A Hindu Brahman Boy Is Born Again (IEO)

Morality
Morbidity
Mormonism
Mortality
Mother-Child Relationship

• Historical and Cultural Perspectives
• Developmental Perspectives

Motor Development
Multicultural Education

• The Color Brown (IEO)

Multiple Births

• Physiological and Medical Perspectives
• Developmental Perspectives
• Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Museums
Music
Musical Development
Myths, Childhood

• Italian Children and the Mysterious La Befana (IEO)

Naming Patterns
Narrative

• Learning to Fictionalize in the Black Belt of Alabama (IEO)

Native American Children
Native American Children, Laws Governing
Native American Religious Traditions
Nature, Children and
Neill, A(lexander) S(utherland)
Neonate
Neurological and Brain Development
Neurological Disorders
Neuromuscular Disorders
Newborn, Rituals for and Care of the

Obesity and Dieting
Oedipus Conflict
Ogbu, John U(zo)
Opie, Peter (Mason)
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Organizations for Youth
Orphanages
Orthopedic Disorders

Pacific Island Societies and Cultures, Childhood and Adolescence in
Pain
Parasitic Infections
Parens Patriae
Parenthood
Parks, Playgrounds, and Open Spaces
Paternity and Maternity
Pediatrics
Peers and Peer Culture
Perception
Performance-Enhancing Drugs
Personal Boundaries
Personality

• Personality Development
• Personality Traits
• Psychoanalytic Perspectives

Pets
Physical Disabilities and Other Health Impairments, Education of Children with
Physical Education
Physical Growth and Development
Piaget, Jean
Planning
Plato
Play

• Historical and Cultural Perspectives
• Developmental Perspectives

Play, Pretend

• Some Prodigious Pretenders (IEO)

Play and Gender

• Girls as Adversarial Virtuosos (IEO)

Play Therapy
Poisoning
Political Activism, Children and
Popular Culture
Popular Music

• Using Rap to Re-create a Southern Heritage (IEO)

Pornography, Child
Postpartum Depression
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Poverty, Children in

• Historical and Cultural Perspectives
• Effects on the Child

Pregnancy
Pregnancy and Childbirth, Legal Regulation of
Prejudice and Stereotyping

• An African American Grandmother Combats Racial Hatred (IEO)

Prematurity
Preschool and Kindergarten

• Early Childhood Education in Japan (IEO)

Prisons for Youth
Privacy, Family
Problem Solving
Procreate, Right to
Property, Children as
Property and Contract, Children’s Rights to
Prostitution, Child
Protestantism
Psychiatric Illness, Parental
Punishment, Legal

Race and Children’s Development
Rape
Reading
Reform Institutions for Youth
Refugee Children
Rehabilitative Services for Youth
Religion in Public Schools
Religious Instruction
Religious Rights, Children’s

• The School of the Republic: Muslim Girls’ Dress and Identities in French Public Schools (IEO)

Religious Schools
Remarriage and the Blended Family
Reproductive Technologies

• Medical Perspectives
• Legal and Public-Policy Perspectives

Research on Child Development

• Historical Perspectives
• The Practice of Child Development Research

Respiratory Diseases
Rights, Children’s
Rights, Parental
Rights, Termination of Parental
Rites of Passage

• Religious Rites of Passage
• Secular Rites of Passage

Rituals, Family
Romantic and Sexual Relationships
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Sacramental Family Life

• Parents as Deities in Hindu Family Life (IEO)

Salk, Jonas (Edward)
School Achievement
School Funding
School Readiness
School Reform
Schooling, Inequalities in
Schools
Schools, Single-Sex
Science
Self Development
Self-Esteem
Self-Injury
Separation and Divorce

• Historical and Cultural Perspectives
• Legal and Public-Policy Perspectives

Sexual Abuse

• Medical and Psychological Perspectives
• Legal and Public-Policy Perspectives

Sexual Development

• Physiological Development
• Sexual Desire and Behavior
• Historical and Cultural Perspectives

Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Shaken Baby Syndrome
Shame and Guilt

• To Know Shame Is to Be Near Courage: Moral Socialization in Taipei (IEO)

Siblings

• Children as Family Caregivers in Mexico (IEO)

Sign Language
Single Parents
Skin Disorders and Diseases
Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)
Slang and Offensive Language
Slavery, Child
Sleep

• Physiology of Sleep
• Dream Interpretation in the Amazon (IEO)
• Sleeping Arrangements
• On Infants Sleeping Alone (IEO)

Social Development
Social Studies, History, and Geography
Social Work
Socialization of the Child
Sociolinguistic Diversity
Solnit, Albert J(ay)
Special Education

• Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
• Legal and Public-Policy Perspectives

Speech Disorders
Spirituality
Spock, Benjamin (McLane)
Sports
Sports Injuries
Stages of Childhood
Status
Status Offenses
Street and Runaway Children

• The Mathematical Life of Brazilian Street Children (IEO)

Stress
Subcultures, Youth
Substance Abuse

• Medical Perspectives
• Legal and Public-Policy Perspectives

Substance Abuse, Parental

• Effects on the Child
• Legal and Public-Policy Perspectives

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Suicide
Sullivan, Harry Stack
Suspension and Expulsion

Taste and Smell, Development of
Taxation, Children and
Teachers
Teeth
Television
Temperament
Testing and Evaluation, Educational
Textbooks
Theater and Acting
Tics and Tourette Syndrome

• Tourette Syndrome in Indian Ayurvedic Medical Practice (IEO)

Tobacco
Toilet Training
Toys and Games
Training, Child

Universe of the Child

Violence, Children and
Vision

• Development of Vision
• Vision Abnormalities

Visitation
Visual Impairments, Education of Children with
Vocational Schools and Training
Vygotsky, L(ev) S(emenovich)

War, Children and

• A Refugee’s Childhood in the West Bank (IEO)

Watson, John B(roadus)
Welfare

• U.S. Historical Perspectives
• International Historical Perspectives
• Effects on the Child
• Legal and Public-Policy Perspectives

Werner, Heinz
Whiting, Beatrice B(lyth)
Whiting, John W(esley) M(ayhew)
Winnicott, D(onald) W(oods)
Witnesses, Children as Legal
Work, Children’s Gainful

• Historical and Cultural Perspectives
• Work before Play for Yucatec Maya Children (IEO)
• Effects on the Child
• Legal and Public-Policy Perspectives

Work and Home Life, Conflict between

• Effects on the Child
• Legal and Public-Policy Perspectives

Writing
Wundt, Wilhelm

Youth Movements