Child Development

Barbara Maughan, Professor, Research Fellow, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, UK and Michael Little, Professor, Director, Social Research Unit at Dartington, UK/University of Chicago, USA

• Contents: Introduction; Part I Key Concepts in Developmental Research: An ethological approach to personality development, Mary D. Salter Ainsworth and John Bowlby; Are there biological programming effects for psychological development?: findings from a study of Romanian adoptees, Michael Rutter, Thomas G. O'Connor and the English and Romanian Adoptees (ERA) Study Team; Pubertal transitions in health, George C. Patton and Russell Viner; The life course as developmental theory, Glen H. Elder;Jr Implications of resilience concepts for scientific understanding, Michael Rutter. Part II Influences on Development: Gene-environment interdependence, Michael Rutter; How people make their own environments: a theory of genotype -> environment effects, Sandra Scarr and Kathleen McCartney; Genetic influences on measures of the environment: a systematic review, Kenneth S. Kendler and Jessica H. Baker; How social experiences influence the brain, Frances A. Champagne and James P. Curley; Cognitive and affective development in adolescence, Laurence Steinberg; Does stress damage the brain?, J. Douglas Bremner; The influence of family, school, and the environment, Barbara Maughan; How families matter in child development: reflections from research on risk and resilience, Ann S. Masten and Anne Shaffer; Socioeconomic status and child development, Robert H. Bradley and Robert F. Corwyn; Lasting consequences of the summer learning gap, Karl L. Alexander, Doris R. Entwisle and Linda Steffel Olson; Personality differences in childhood and adulthood: measurement, development and consequences, Rebecca Shiner and Avshalom Caspi. Part III Impairment and Disorder: 10-year research update review: the epidemiology of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders: I methods and public health burden, E. Jane Costello, Helen Egger and Adrian Angold; 10-year research update review: the epidemiology of childhood and adolescent psychiatric disorders: II developmental epidemiology, E. Jane Costello, Debr