evidence that a “difficult” infant temperament in the first years of life may be risk factor for childhood obesity.16With the development of new tools to assess eating behaviour in early life, researchers will be able to explore new causal models for (un)healthy growth and development. ...
Book Review: Nutrition: Growth and Development of the Child, Part III. White House Conference:doi:10.1177/104438943301301011AliceSimmonsF.SimmonsBloodSimmonsSageThe Family
The field of child development is concerned with the scientific study of human growth and functioning across the early stages of development (i.e., the prenatal period through adolescence) and within the multitude of contexts of daily life. Areas of interest include – though are not limited to...
Both teachers and parents aspire to provide children with enriching and age-appropriate literary experiences. This chapter tackles SDG4 (Quality Education) to ensure all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care, and pre-primary education. Hence, they are ready for pri...
Domains of Development When thinking aboutchild developmentwithin this framework, it can be helpful to conceptualize a child's neurodevelopmental functioning as spanning several domains, which include (1) physical health/growth, (2) neuromotor function, (3) language development, (4) cognition and lea...
This resource booklet is designed to help parents and caregivers understand the stages at which a child grows as well as specific play items that will aid in the child's growth and development physically, emotionally, socially, and mentally. Play is important for young children, and with the ...
An American pediatrician seeing his first patient in a third-world country might be surprised when an illiterate mother presents her child's growth chart to him and points out why she has come: the child's weight for age, in successive measurements, has been faltering. The chart, kept by ...
Fighting the obscene, pornographic, and unhealthy—an analysis of the nature, extent, and regulation of China's online pornography within a global context China's Internet development has experienced an explosive growth in the last two decades. As China became the largest Internet user in the ...
Definitions of sexual deviance have changed over time and the more recent use of paraphilia and paraphilic disorder in the development of DSM‑5 has b
The type and etiology of maternal depression occurring in the first few years after the birth of a child are considered. Various effects on child behavior and development are described. The impact of maternal depression on cognitive development, growth, and the development of behavioral and emotional...