Elizabeth T. Gershoff

How Children Develop

How Children Develop has established itself as the topically organized textbook teachers and researchers trust for the most up-to-date perspectives on...

How Children Develop

"How Children Develop describes the ever-improving body of knowledge of children and their development, while conveying the authors' excitement about ...

Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools

Legal Precedents, Current Practices, and Future Policy

This Brief reviews the past, present, and future use of school corporal punishment in the United States, a practice that remains legal in 19 states as...

Foster Care and Best Interests of the Child

Integrating Research, Policy, and Practice

This brief examines the U.S. foster care system and seeks to explain why the foster care system functions as it does and how it can be improved to ser...

Assessing the Impact of September 11th, 2001, on Children, Youth, and Parents in the United States

Lessons from Applied Developmental Science : Part I : Assessing the Impact of September 11th, 2001

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Assessing the Impact of September 11th, 2001 on Children, Youth, And Parents in the United States

Lessons from Applied Developmental Science

These two special issues of Applied Developmental Science include eight major studies of the impacts of the September 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks on...