Advances in Child Development and Behavior

Volume 46 of Advances in Child Development and Behavior includes chapters that highlight some the most recent research in this area.

A wide array of topics are discussed in detail, including internalization and socialization, infants' discovery of structure, adolescents' theories of the commons, lesbian and gay parenting, early childhood and family interventions, predicting aggression, causal inference in early development, pubertal development, the impact on children of parental deployment to war, vocabulary development for English learners in the early grades, and adaptive tool-use in early childhood.

Each chapter provides in-depth discussions, and this volume serves as an invaluable resource for developmental or educational psychology researchers, scholars, and students.

1. Demystifying Internalization and Socialization:  Linking Conceptions of How Development Happens to Organismic-Developmental Theory
2. Adolescents’ Theories of the Commons
3. LGB-Parent Families: The Current State of the Research and Directions for the Future
4. The Impact of Parental Deployment to War on Children: The Crucial Role of Parenting
5. Shining Light on Infants’ Discovery of Structure
6. Development of Adaptive Tool-Use in Early Childhood: Sensori-Motor, Social, and Conceptual Factors
7. Edge Replacement and Minimality as Models of Causal Inference in Children
8. Applying Risk and Resilience Models to Predicting the Effects of Media Violence on Development
9. Bringing a Developmental Perspective to Early Childhood and Famly Interventionists: Where to Begin
10. Vocabulary Development and Intervention for English Learners in the Early Grades