development

Measuring collective efficacy among children in community-based afterschool programs: Exploring pathways toward prevention and positive youth development

Citation: Smith EP, Osgood DW, Caldwell L, Hynes K, Perkins DF: Measuring collective efficacy among...

The impact of classroom aggression on the development of aggressive behavior problems in children

Prior research suggests that exposure to elementary classrooms characterized by high levels of student aggression...

Environmental, genetic and epigenetic influences on the developmental origins of aggression and other disruptive behaviors

Leading experts review the latest findings and recommendations concerning the roots and prevention of antisocial...

Motivational-emotional vulnerability and difficulties in learning to read and spell

Background: Although the relationship between motivation and learning problems has been studied in older children,...

Elementary and middle school students’ perceptions of violence-prone school subcontexts.

This study examined the views of 377 students (grades 2, 4, 6, and 8) from...

Promoting emotional education: Engaging children and young people with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties

Unlike IQ, emotional competence can be nurtured and developed, and is a key factor in...

Naming, story-telling, and problem-solving: Critical elements in the development of language and cognition.

In the current article, we present the three pillars of Relational Frame Theory: relational frames,...

Parent-child relationships in young homeless families: Co-regulation as a predictor of child self-regulation and school adjustment

Developing adaptive behaviors are particularly important for children growing up in contexts of risk and...

“The effect of the level of aggression in the first grade classroom on the course and malleability of aggressive behavior into middle school”: Erratum

This paper is on the influences of the classroom context on the course and malleability...

The short-term impact of two classroom-based preventive interventions on aggressive and shy behaviors and poor achievement

Two classroom-based preventive interventions were carried out on an epidemiologically defined, varied population of children...