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Annotation: This report examines the status of adolescents in terms of developmental assets. The findings are based on data from a survey—"Search Institute Profiles of Student Life: Attitudes and Behaviors"—that measures 40 developmental assets, or positive factors. The document provides information about the following: the background assets and the young people surveyed; young people's experiences of developmental assets; the deficits and patterns of high risk behavior that compromise young people's healthy development; the power of assets in relation to risky behaviors; an overall goal for well-being; and creative tensions that address challenges and opportunities of the report. Each chapter includes text, figures, and tables of data by grade and gender. Appendices offer additional details of other demographic differences.

Keywords: Adolescent attitudes, Adolescent behavior, Adolescent development, Community role, Cultural factors, Decision making, Education, Families, High risk adolescents, Parent child relationships, Peer groups, Positivism, School role, Self-esteem, Social interaction, Statistics

Annotation: This report consolidates national data on disparities in mortality, morbidity, behavioral risk factors, health care access, preventive health services, and social determinants of critical health problems in the United States. The focus is on disparities in selected health determinants and outcomes by sex, race and ethnicity, education, income, disability status, and geography. Topics include education and income, housing, air quality, health insurance, influenza vaccination, colorectal cancer screening, infant deaths, motor vehicle-related deaths, suicides, drug-induced deaths, coronary heart disease and stroke deaths, homicides, obesity, preterm births, hospitalizations, asthma, HIV infection, diabetes, hypertension, binge drinking, adolescent pregnancy and childbirth, and cigarette smoking. The rationale for regular reporting on health disparities and inequalities and recommendations for universally applied and targeted interventions are included.

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Keywords: , Access to health care, Health behavior, Health statistics, Health status disparities, Intervention, Morbidity, Mortality, Preventive health services, Risk factors, Social indicators

Annotation: This fact sheet reviews 38 evaluated programs to identify what works to promote social skills among children and adolescents (such as getting along with others, expressing empathy to others, trying to resolve conflicts, and regulating emotions and behaviors). It highlights programs (27 out of 38) that significantly increased at least one social skill in children and adolescents. It also discusses the effectiveness of programs that incorporated peer-teaching, group discussion, or role modeling, as well as teacher-led instruction. The fact sheet includes a chart summarizing the programs and whether they were found to work, not proven to work, or had mixed findings.

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Keywords: Adolescent development, Adolescents, Child development, Children, Community programs, Program evaluation, Psychological development, Psychosocial development, Social behavior, Social interaction, Social skills

Annotation: This fact sheet reviews 38 evaluated programs to identify what works to promote social skills among children and adolescents (such as getting along with others, expressing empathy to others, trying to resolve conflicts, and regulating emotions and behaviors). It highlights programs (27 out of 38) that significantly increased at least one social skill in children and adolescents. It also discusses the effectiveness of programs that incorporated peer-teaching, group discussion, or role modeling, as well as teacher-led instruction. The fact sheet includes a chart summarizing the programs and whether they were found to work, not proven to work, or had mixed findings.

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Keywords: Adolescent development, Adolescents, Child development, Children, Model programs, Program evaluation, Psychological development, Psychosocial development, Social behavior, Social interaction, Social skills

Annotation: This toolkit is designed to help mental health consultants work with early childhood programs to evaluate and implement the Teaching Pyramid Model. Contents include materials and strategies to help programs evaluate their progress towards implementing the model and learn more about how adult behavior and the design of the child care classroom environment support the social emotional development of infants and toddlers. The kit contains forms for monitoring the overall prevalence of challenging behavior in an early childhood classroom, collecting information on an individual child's behavior, monitoring the location of challenging behavior in an early childhood classroom, and identifying patterns in child engagement across activities. Reproducible forms, case examples, and sample completed forms are included.

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Keywords: Child behavior, Child mental health, Consultation, Early childhood education, Emotional development, Forms, Model programs, Social development, Technical assistance, Young children

Annotation: This final report describes a 2005-2010 project to improve the social, emotional, and behavioral health of out-of-home child care preschool children in Cleveland County, North Carolina and to facilitate a successful entry in to kindergarten. Contents include a description of the project purpose, goals and objectives, methodology, a brief section on evaluation, and results and outcomes. Additional information is provided on publications and products developed during the project, dissemination and utilization of results, and future plans and followup. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Behavioral development, Child care, Early childhood development, Final reports, Mental health, North Carolina, Preschool children, Social development, Young children

Annotation: This policy briefing paper addresses issues related to promoting children's social and emotional development in Texas. The paper explains why promoting children's social and emotional development is important and discusses current policy in Texas, what research says about best practices for enhancing social and emotional development, and better investment choices for Texas.

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Keywords: Behavior problems, Child development, Early childhood development, Emotional development, Family support services, Financing, Intervention, Parenting skills, Prevention, Public policy, Research, School readiness, Screening, Social skills, State programs, Texas

Annotation: This report is intended to give local stakeholders the information and tools necessary to develop and use indicators for social-emotional development. The report includes (1) definitions of key concepts related to establishing indicators; (2) seven recommended indicators for social-emotional development; (3) a framework to determine local priorities and get started with indicator adoption, (4) resources for finding data at the community level for each indicator, and (5) how to interpret and use data collected for each of the suggested indicators. Examples of successful use of these indicators in states and local communities are provided.

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Keywords: Behavior problems, Child abuse, Child development, Child health, Communities, Community programs, Depression, Emotional development, Mental disorders, Social indicators, Statistical data, Young children

Annotation: This paper reports on a study that examined predictors of persistent childhood overweight and associated academic and socioemotional outcomes. The study used data on 8,000 children followed from kindergarten through third grade as part of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Class. The paper includes a discussion of the data and methods, a summary of findings, and a discussion of the findings' significance.

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Keywords: Academic achievement, Child health, Children, Emotional development, Obesity, Research, Social behavior, Social problems

Annotation: This list of developmental screening instruments for infants and young children (from birth through age 5) includes instruments that address multiple developmental domains as well as those that focus on the social-emotional developmental domain. The screening instruments are further subdivided into those that must be administered by professionals and those that may be completed by family members or other caregivers. Information for each instrument, including a description, the age range for which the instrument is validated, the time required to administer the instrument, scoring procedures, psychometric properties, requirements for administrators, and contact information.

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Keywords: Developmental screening, Early childhood development, Emotional development, Infants, Social behavior, Young children

Annotation: This final report provides information about the Head Start National Reporting System (NRS), an initiative to assess systematically the early literacy, language, and numeracy skills of all 4- and 5-year-olds enrolled in Head Start. The report provides background information about the NRS, describes the quality of cognitive child assessments and the experiences of staff in administering assessments, reports on programs' approaches to training staff to conduct assessments, describes approaches to implementing assessments and discusses costs, discusses ways that programs have used assessment results, summarizes what was learned from interviews and focus groups, and describes the administration of the social and emotional development rating form.

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Keywords: Assessment, Costs, Early childhood development, Early childhood education, Emotional development, Evaluation, Focus groups, Head Start, Young children, Language development, Literacy, Social behavior, Training

Annotation: This resource summarizes the proceedings of an honorary symposium for Dr. Lois K. Cohen held on December 11, 2006, in Bethesda, Maryland, to convey the importance of behavioral and social sciences in oral health and directions for future research. Topics include (1) the imperative for social and behavioral sciences an integral part of health research; (2) social and behavioral research in oral health; (3) biobehavioral research in the oral health sciences; (4) research needs and opportunities; (5) studies focused on individual health; (6) family and community-based research; (7) communications research; (8) research capacity, design, and infrastructure; and (9) social, health policy, and global health research.

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Keywords: Conference proceedings, Behavioral sciences, Needs assessment, Oral health, Research, Social sciences

Annotation: This report focuses on a study that explored the social networking attitudes and habits of users and librarians. The reports explored the following main areas: (1) user practices and preferences on their favorite social spaces; (2) the origins of social networking; (3) user attitudes about privace and trust online; (4) librarian online habits and attitudes vs. the habits and attitudes of the general public; and (5) attitudes about combining the benefits of social spaces with the offerings of libraries. The report also discusses in-depth interviews with information services professionals to gain insight into social networking, trust, and privacy online. Report highlights and conclusions are offered. The report includes six appendices: (1) college students' use of Internet services; (2) glossary, (3) people consulted, (4) readings and other sources, (5) about OCLC, and (6) comparative timeline.

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Keywords: Attitudes, Consumers, Librarians, Libraries, Social behavior, Trust, World Wide Web

Annotation: This report describes how educators, family members, and other caregivers can acknowledge positive behavior in children as a strategy to help eliminate undesirable behavior. It describes how the strategy works, how to design a plan to meet individual needs, what behavioral changes can be expected, what type of resources are needed, and which children are likely to benefit from the strategy. Examples of positive behavior scenarios are included.

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Keywords: Behavior modification, Child behavior, Child psychology, Social behavior

Annotation: This interim report focuses on the National Consensus Process (NCP) on Sexual Health and Responsible Sexual Behavior, a process on sexual health in which leaders of major constituency organizations with interest in sexual health participated. The goal of the NCP is to improve sexual health and responsible sexual behaviors in America. The report includes a letter from the former U.S. Surgeon General; an executive summary; a call to action; background; and a statement of agreement covering the following topics: vision, goal, sexuality, sexual health, individual responsibility, community responsibility, outcomes, and normative differences. Also included is a discussion of NCP areas of agreement and non-agreement and supporting documents; areas for further discussion; participant observations; commentary; and NCP's future. The report includes eight appendices: (1) best practices; (2) research recommendations; (3) HIV, AIDS, STDs, and STIs; (4) education and discussion of sexual health and responsible sexual behavior for youth by parents or caregivers; (5) sexual abstinence; (6) responsible and irresponsible social behavior; (7) sexual orientation; (8) NCP ground rules and meeting dates and locations.

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Keywords: AIDS, Abstinence, Adolescent sexuality, Caregivers, HIV, Individual responsibility, Parents, Sexual behavior, Sexual health, Sexual identity, Sexuality, Sexuality education, Sexually transmitted diseases, Social responsibility

Annotation: This guide, which is geared for anyone concerned with the emotional and social welfare of infants and young children, focuses on specific difficulties that might affect an infant's or young child's natural developmental progression and on providing guidance on how to get support when needed. The guide is divided into 15 chapters, organized under four broad themes: the context for family life, specialized assessment and early intervention, understanding and responding to difficult family circumstances, and understanding and responding to young children in traumatic circumstances. Each chapter includes an introduction to the topic, general information and specific points to consider, and the listing of several recommended resources for more information. The guide includes three appendices: Vermont general resources, national organizations and Web sites, and About the Vermont Children's UPstream Services team.

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Keywords: Assessment, Behavior problems, Child health, Early childhood development, Early intervention, Emotional development, Emotional instability, Families, Family support, High risk children, High risk infants, Infant health, Mental health services, Social adjustment, Social services, State programs, Vermont, Young children

Annotation: This book explores the history of the founding and progress of the field of child development from the late 1800s up to World War II. Topics in part one of the book, encompassing 1893-1910, include the rise of social research, feminism, the child study movement, scientific child rearing, parent education, social welfare reform and reform-minded scientsts. Part two provides an overview of the creation of models from 1910-1921. Contents include the establishment of the Children's Bureau, research perspectives from juvenile delinquency to child guidance, and a case study of the methods used in the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station to grow better crops, better pigs, and better children. The third section reviews breakthroughs during the period from 1922 to 1940. It discusses the "Children's Decade" of the 1920s, child development research and preventive politics, a case study of the Yale Clinic, activities of the Child Guidance Movement and its transformation to child psychiatry, and the continued activities of the Children's Bureau.

Keywords: Behavioral sciences, Biological sciences, Child development, Child health, Child health programs, Child rearing, Children, Children's Bureau, Federal agencies, History, Mother child relations, Mothers, Parent education, Pediatrics, Social sciences, United States

Annotation: This book examines internal and external factors in the adolescent's successful psychosocial development. The authors describe the framework of their theory of development assets and then discuss each of the assets. External assets include: support assets; empowerment assets; boundaries-and-expectation assets; and constructive-use-of-time assets. Internal assets include: commitment-to-learning assets; positive values assets; social competency assets; and positive identity assets.

Keywords: Adolescent attitudes, Adolescent behavior, Adolescent development, Community role, Decision making, Education, Families, Parent child relationships, Peer groups, Positivism, School role, Self-esteem, Social interaction

Annotation: This bibliography is intended to help injury researchers and behavioral scientists work together to uncover new solutions to the injury problem and to serve as a starting point for students and teachers interested in conducting research related to behavioral science and injury control. The bibliography (1) documents the contributions of behavioral and social science research to unintentional injury prevention and control and (2) increases awareness about the impact and importance of behavioral science in the field of injury control. The bibliography is divided into two major sections. Section 1 lists references alphabetically by author and offers a one-page index of pertinent references by selected keywords. Section 2 is a list of references divided into broad subject headings. Topics include injuries to children and adults received from bicycles, drowning, falls, fires and burns, impaired driving, motor vehicles, motorcycles, on-the-job, playgrounds, poisoning, sports, and sun-related injuries. The bibliography can be downloaded from the Web site or ordered in CD-ROM.

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Keywords: Behavioral sciences, Bibliographies, CD-ROMs, Injuries, Injury prevention, Research, Social sciences, Unintentional injuries

Annotation: This paper summarizes results from an evaluation of Project ALERT, a widely used middle-school drug prevention program developed by the RAND Corporation. The paper also summarizes outcomes from related studies showing that adolescents who continue to drink and smoke face increased academic, social, and behavioral problems later in life. The paper includes the following sections: (1) despite some reductions in substance use, adolescents are still at risk, (2) Project ALERT: confronting substance use early, (3) building prevention programs on solid science, (4) early substance use carries risks for later in life, and (5) drug prevention in schools and public health. Statistical information is presented in figures throughout the paper.

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Keywords: Academic achievement, Adolescent behavior, Alcohol consumption behavior, Behavior problems, Middle schools, Smoking, Social problems, Substance abuse, Substance abuse prevention, Substance abuse prevention programs