Wiley Handbook of Early Childhood Development Programs, Practices, and Policies

Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal, PhD, is Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychology. Her main areas of research are poverty, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic disadvantage, urbanicity, early childhood education, and immigrant children.Eric Dearing, PhD, is a Professor with the Boston College Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology. His main areas of interest/expertise are the roles of family, early child care, school, and community for promoting cognitive, language, and social-emotional development of economically and socially disadvantaged children.

• Notes on Contributors viiiForeword xxPreface xxvPart I The State of Young Children in the United States 11 The State of Young Children in the United States: School Readiness 3Terri J. Sabol and Robert C. Pianta2 The State of Young Children in the United States: A Developmental Psychopathology Perspective on the Mental Health of Preschool Children 18Susan B. Campbell3 Early Childhood Health Disparities, Biological Embedding, and Life]Course Health 35Daniel Berry4 Social and Contextual Risks 66Robert H. BradleyPart II Theoretical and Empirical Contexts of Applied Developmental Science of Early Childhood 975 From the Lab to the Contexts in which Children Live and Grow: Historical Perspectives on the Field 99Pamela A. Morris and Maia C. Connors6 What Does it Mean to be Evidence]based? 118Margaret R. Burchinal and Nina E. Forestieri7 Neural Development in Context: Differences in Neural Structure and Function Associated with Adverse Childhood Experiences 135Emily C. Merz and Kimberly G. NoblePart III Early Childhood Education and Care 1618 Publicly Supported Early Care and Education Programs 163W. Steven Barnett, Elizabeth Votruba]Drzal, Eric Dearing, and Megan E. Carolan9 Early Childhood Education and Care for Dual Language Learners 187Lianna Pizzo and Mariela Páez10 Early Childhood Education and Care for Children with Disabilities 211Penny Hauser]Cram, Miriam Heyman, and Kristen Bottema]Beutel11 Classroom based Early Childhood Interventions 237Stephanie Jones, Dana Charles McCoy and Lauren Hay12 Child Care and Child Development in the United States: Where Have We Come From, What Do We Know Now, and Where Are We Going? 261Anna D. JohnsonPart IV Parenting, Family, and Dual]generation Programs 28713 Family School Partnerships in Early Childhood 289Susan M. Sheridan, Amanda L. Moen, and Lisa L. Knoche14 Parenting and Home Visiting Interventions 310Nancy Donelan]McCall15 The Two Generation Approach to Building Human Capital: Past, Present, and Future 330Margo Gardner, Jeanne Brooks]Gunn, and P. Lindsay Chase]LansdalePart V Public Policy and Young Children 36316 Immigration Policy and Early Childhood Development 365Soojin Oh Park and Hirokazu Yoshikawa17 Marriage Policy and Early Childhood Development 385Rebekah Levine Coley18 Child Welfare Policy 403Kristen S. Slack and June Paul19 Effects of United States Income and Work Supports Policies on Children in Low]Income Families 424Aletha C. Huston20 The Role of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Promoting Early Childhood Development in the United States 447Sharon Wolf, Juliette Berg, Pamela A. Morris, and J. Lawrence Aber21 Work Family Policies 469Anna Gassman]Pines and Rachel GoldsteinIndex 48