Children and Youth Services Review
Special Issue Call for Papers
We are seeking original manuscripts for a special issue of Children and Youth ServicesReview dedicated to advancing knowledge of biological mothers with children in foster care. We are especially interested in theoretical papers drawing on family developmental theory and family therapy theory and the possible implications of these models for conceptualizing practice-related issues in child welfare such as responses to child maltreatment, loss of child custody, and reintegration of family members.
As we move forward into 2009, the Journal will undergo several changes. It is with great regret that I announce that Ann McGillicuddy-De Lisi, is stepping down as co-editor as of this last issue of 2008….Click here to read Kathryn Wentzel’s editorial
Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, launched in 2007, has been accepted by Thomson Reuters into the Social Sciences Citation Index and Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences. Click here for more information on the Journal.
Contemporary Educational Psychology Special Issue
Call for Proposals Guest Editors Stephen L Benton, Virginia W Berninger and Stephen Booth are requesting proposals for a special issue on Brain Research and Academic Learning, which will seek to highlight cutting-edge research in cognitive neuroscience. Click here for more details
Cognitive Development Volume 23, Issue 4, October-December 2008
Scientific Reasoning – Where Are We Now?
Guest Edited by Beate Sodian and Merry Bullock
Traditionally, the ability to generate, test, and evaluate theories and hypotheses, and to interpret data in an unbiased way, has been characterized as a late developing set of skills, emerging during adolescence , recent research has demonstrated early competence in many of the basic components of scientific reasoning.
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Journal of Adolescence Volume 31, Issue 6, December 2008
Directly observed interactions within adolescent romantic relationships
Guest Edited - Deborah Welsh and Shmuel Shulman
We bring you the first published special issue focused on empirical investigations of the observed interaction of adolescent romantic couples. This issue includes the work of 11 different research programs located throughout the world who report on their innovative observational investigations of adolescent romantic relationships.
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Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
Volume 29, Issue 6,November-December 2008
Social Networking on the Internet - Developmental Implications
Guest Edited by Kaveri Subrahmanyam and Patricia M. Greenfield
Young people use the Internet both for instrumental and communication purposes, the latter are particularly salient in their lives. In the past couple of years alone, we have seen young people flock to various communication applications such as chat rooms, e-mail, instant messaging, blogs, and most recently social networking sites.
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Children and Youth Services Review Volume 31, Issue 3,March 2009
Environment and Child Well-being
Guest Edited by Bridget Freisthler and David S. Crampton
In recent years there has been a growing interest in understanding how the particular environment in which children and youth develop affect later outcomes. The articles in this special issue all examine ways in which the larger environment is related to children's well-being.
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Computers in Human Behavior
Volume 25, Issue 2,March 2009
State of the Art Research into Cognitive Load Theory
Guest Edited by Paul Ayres and Tamara van Gog
This special issue contains a selected set of 15 papers that were based on presentations made during the First International Conference on Cognitive Load Theory, at the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) in 2007. The contributions presented here cover a variety of areas, and together provide a good overview of new research on established topics, as well as some interesting innovative directions inspired by Cognitive Load Theory (CLT: Sweller, 1988; Sweller, Van Merriënboer, & Paas, 1998; Van Merriënboer & Sweller, 2005).
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Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Volume 101, Issue 4, December 2008
Imitation in Typically Developing Children
Guest Edited by Mark Nielsen and Malinda Carpenter
The study of how and why children copy others’ object-directed actions is critical to our broader understanding of children’s social and cognitive development. It can tell us much about strategies for learning, teaching, communicating, and much more. It may also provide insight into the origins of our astonishing propensity for using and developing tools, a trait that has no doubt impacted immeasurably on our colonization of the planet. The papers featured in this special edition make a fine foundation for work that can continue to do this.
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The Society for Research in Child Development 2-4 April 2009, Denver, USA
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Current Theories of Adolescent Risk Taking
Convention Center 607, Saturday 4th April, 10:20 am - 12:00 pm
Chairs: Susan E. Rivers, Valerie F. Reyna
Discussant: Valerie F. Reyna
Adolescents and young adults disproportionately engage in risk taking behaviors that lead to poor health, disease, and even death. Leading theorists present the latest research on adolescent risk taking, including neurobiological, social, and cognitive perspectives. The symposium also highlights important theoretical work presented in a special issue of Developmental Review (Vol. 28, no. 1, 2008), visit here for more information.
American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting “Disciplined Inquiry: Education Research in the Circle of Knowledge”
13-17 April 2009, San Diego, USA
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