Adolescence and Youth
http://www.ianrpubs.unl.edu/sendIt/family/nf211.htm
This is the Adolescence and Youth section of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's larger Nebfacts website. These pages are provided and maintained by staff at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the United States. Content of this small section consists of information and advice for those interested in tackling the difficult topic of helping adolescents make choices.
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Adoption.com
http://www.adoption.com/
Adoption.com, run by a private company in the USA, comprises a collection of websites that deal with all aspects of adoption, from adoptive parenting, foster parenting, adoption search, social work, and unplanned pregnancy, to adoption law. The site also hosts adoption blogs and resources that relate to the psychological issues that surround adoption, from the perspectives of adopters and adoptees. The site should be most useful for teachers and researchers.
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American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
http://www.aacap.org/
This is the home page of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The site is maintained by the academy from its headquarters in Washington DC in the United States. Content of the site includes information about the academy itself, a what's new section, a member's section, facts for families, press releases, meetings, journals and other publications, award opportunities, clinical practice, research and training, membership information and resource links to other organisations.
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American Academy of Pediatrics
http://www.aap.org/
The American Academy of Pediatrics specialises in providing information about proper child care in America. This site has a medical bias, but contains a good deal of content relevant to psychology, including direct links to paediatric research, and family and psychiatric issues surrounding diseases and disorders.
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Anna Freud Centre
http://www.annafreudcentre.org/
The Anna Freud Centre is a registered charity based in London. It conducts research into the best ways to help children suffering mental ill-health and offers psychoanalytic treatment for troubled children and young people. The website contains information about the centre's various projects and also includes a number of research papers.
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Association for Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health
http://www.birthpsychology.com/apppah/index.html
This is the website of the Association for Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health. The organisation comprises members of a differing backgrounds, all of whom are interested in the psychological aspects of prenatal (before birth) and perinatal (after birth) experiences. It includes information about meetings, contacting like-minded individuals, and research.
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Attachment Disorder Support Group
http://adsg.syix.com/
This is the home page of the Attachment Disorder Support Group website. The site is maintained and contributed to by group staff members who are based across the United States. The site includes resources on reactive attachment disorder, links and further information.
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Attachment Parenting Canada
http://www.attachmentparenting.ca/
This is the home page of the Attachment Parenting Canada organisation. The site is maintained by staff members from the association's headquarters in Calgary, Alberta. The site includes many articles on how to deal with baby-related problems from an attachment perspective.
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British Journal of Developmental Psychology
http://www.bps.org.uk/publications/journals/bjdp/
The British Journal of Developmental Psychology is published by British Psychological Society. Articles cover all areas of development during childhood and adolescence, early infant perceptual, cognitive and motor development, abnormal development, educational implications of child development and parent-child interaction. Online access is available to institutional and Society member subscribers through Ingenta Select. A pay-per-view article-download service is available for non-subscribers.
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Center for Evolutionary Psychology
http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/cep/
The Centre for Evolutionary Psychology's website is maintained by staff at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. The site, which is a basic introduction to the principles of evolutionary psychology, includes an evolutionary psychology primer, current research, graduate and post-doctoral study at the centre, graduate and postdoctoral students, places to study evolutionary psychology, and suggested reading. It should be useful for students and teachers.
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Centre for Adolescent and Family Studies
http://education.indiana.edu/Default.aspx?alias=education.indiana.edu/cafs
This is the home page of the Centre for Adolescent and Family Studies website. The site has been provided and is maintained by staff members in the School of Education at Indiana University in Bloomington in the United States. Content of the site includes details of current projects and publications.
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Centre for Applied Childhood Studies
http://www.hud.ac.uk/hhs/research/acs/index.htm
This is the home page for the Centre for Applied Childhood Studies at the University of Huddersfield (UK). The Centre: promotes and conducts research on topics concerning the well-being of children and young people; and promotes and conducts work which is relevant in the development of theory, policy and practice in the field of child welfare. Information on the site includes a bibliograpy of centre publications, news and event information and links to relevannt websites.
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Child Care in Practice
http://www.childcareinpractice.org/
This is a website for the printed journal 'Child Care in Practice', a limited company and registered charity run by practitioners. It is a quarterly, peer reviewed journal of multi-disciplinary child care, publishing a mix of research, practice, policy conference papers and literature reviews. Published by Routledge the journal accepts contributions from all professions involved in the provision of children's services from both the UK and the Republic of Ireland. The site contains editorial of current edition, full list of articles published, instructions for authors a list of editors, subscription and advertising rates.
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Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography (CDAB) Online Edition
http://www.srcd.org/cdab.html
This is the online, searchable edition of Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography. Founded in 1927, the journal published abstracts and book reviews of research literature selected from about 275 English and foreign language journals, technical reports, and books that covered education and the biomedical and behavioural sciences. This publication ceased with vol. 75(3) 2001.
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Child Development Basics
http://www.childdevelopmentinfo.com/
This American website, hosted by the Child Development Institute, provides information about the various stages of child development, from psychological aspects such as cognitive development to motor skills and emotional development. The website should be most useful for students.
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Child Development Institute
http://www.cdipage.com/
This is the home page of the Child Development Institute. The site is maintained by the Institute from their headquarters in California in the United States. Contents of the site include major topics of interest e.g. child development, parenting skills, stress, raising teengaers. There are also links to a research centre, discussion groups and news for parents.
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Child psychology research blog
http://www.child-psych.org/
This blog is written by psychologist and neuroscience researcher Nestor L. Lopez-Duran, based at the University of Michigan in the United States. Articles comprise reviews and commentary on recently published research in the areas of child development, parenting, and child clinical disorders. An archive of articles is available. The site should be useful for researchers, students and teachers.
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Child Research Net (CRN)
http://www.childresearch.net/
Child Research Net (CRN)is a non-profit educational organisation which provides access to research about the education and social values of young people in Japan in order to help academics, educators, professionals and education policy-makers worldwide develop a better understanding of Japanese culture and Japanese children. The 'Cybrary' section of the website contains a searchable database of full-text research reports on child development issues, education statistics and information about Japanese education policies. 'Kids and Media' provides information about research into the use of technology in education, with links to full-text research reports on educational technology around the world. The 'Kids and Society' section has CRN documents about social issues facing children in Japan today and there is a section called 'Young Researcher's Papers' containing articles written by Japanese young people themselves. The website is available in both Japanese and English.
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ChildData
http://www.childdata.org.uk/
Published as CD-Rom and Web version, ChildData is available on annual subscription and includes four databases from the National Children's Bureau's Library and Information Service. These are 1) Catalogue - which has comprehensive details, with abstracts, of published information on children and young people 2) Organisations - directory of over 3,000 national and international organisations 3) Children in the News - summaries of issues affecting children and young people as reported in the national press 4) Conferences and Events - a guide to over 200 forthcoming national and international conferences.
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Children's House in Cyberspace
http://www.child-abuse.com/childhouse/
The Children's House in Cyberspace is maintained by US-based child abuse experts. Content is provided in the form of virtual rooms for early childhood, child health, children's rights, child research, learning, and other useful resources relating to the subject of child abuse. This site should be useful for students, researchers and teachers.
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Childwatch - International Research Network
http://www.childwatch.uio.no/
Childwatch - the International Research Network - is provided and maintained by Childwatch staff from the centre's headquaters in Blindem, Norway. The site includes background information, a list of key institutions, projects, news and links to resources. It should be useful for students, researchers and teachers.
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Chronic Illness Resources for Teens
http://dms.dartmouth.edu/koop/resources/chronic_illness/
This is the home page of the Chronic Illness Resources for Teens website. The site is provided and maintained by members of staff at the C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth in New Hampshire in the United States. Content of the site includes background information on the Koop Institute, its mission, its programmes, its projects, its people, upcoming events, news and further resources.
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Conditioning
http://sun.science.wayne.edu/~wpoff/cor/mem/conditnl.html
This page concerns classical conditioning in all its forms. It forms part of the "Memory" section of the PsySoc site, which is provided by the Psychology Department at Wayne State University in the United States. The site includes a tutorial on types of classical conditioning, generalisation, extinction, and schedules. It should be useful for students and teachers.
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CREDIT: ESRC Centre for Research in Development, Instruction and Training
http://www.psyc.nott.ac.uk/research/credit/
This site is maintained by centre staff at the Department of Psychology at Nottingham University. It includes details about the centre, news and vacancies, research, reports and contact details. The research reports are particularly detailed and would be useful for researchers.
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Cultural-historical psychology
http://watarts.uwaterloo.ca/%7Eacheyne/chp.html
The Cultural-Historical Psychology website is provided by Al Cheyne, who is based at the University of Waterloo in Canada. The site includes essays on Vygotskian thought, including the Bateson-Gadamer-Harris Hypothesis, the Zone of Proximal Development, and the mimetics and semiotics of bullying. This site should be useful for students, researchers and teachers.
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