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Title:

Child development and social policy : knowledge for action / edited by J. Lawrence Aber ... [et al.].

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

American Psychological Association,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xvii, 311 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Zigler, Edward,--1930-
Children--Government policy--United States.
Children--Services for--United States.
Children with social disabilities--Services for--United States.
Child development--United States.
Child development--Research--United States.
Child welfare--United States.

Other Authors:

Aber, J. Lawrence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents:

Child development research and public policy : triumphs and setbacks on the way to maturity / Deborah A. Phillips and Sally J. Styfco -- Policy looking to research / Olivia Golden -- Bridging the gap between research and child policy change : the role of strategic communications in policy advocacy / Janice Gruendel and J. Lawrence Aber -- Data for a democracy : the evolving role of evaluation in policy and program development / Kathleen McCartney and Heather B. Weiss -- Forty years of research knowledge and use : from Head Start to Early Head Start and beyond / John M. Love, Rachel Chazan-Cohen and Helen Raikes -- Beyond baby steps : promoting the growth and development of U.S. child-care policy / Susan Muenchow and Katherine W. Marsland -- From visions to systems of universal prekindergarten / W. Steven Barnett, Kirsty C. Brown, Matia Finn-Stevenson and Christopher Henrich -- Strategies to ensure that no child starts from behind / Deborah Stipek and Kenji Hakuta -- Poverty and child development : new perspectives on a defining issue / J. Lawrence Aber, Stephanie M. Jones and C. Cybele Raver -- Intervention and policy implications of research on neurobiological functioning in maltreated children / Dante Cicchetti -- The sexually mature teen as a whole person : new directions in prevention and intervention for teen pregnancy and parenthood / Joseph P. Allen, Victoria Seitz and Nancy H. Apfel -- Children in foster care / Ellen E. Pinderhughes, Brenda Jones Harden and Amanda E. Guyer -- Parent education : lessons inspired by Head Start / LaRue Allen, Anita Sethi, Sheila Smith and Jennifer Astuto -- Mental health : a neglected partner in the healthy development of young children / Kathryn Taaffe McLearn, Jane Knitzer and Alice S. Carter -- Family support : a force for change / Sharon Lynn Kagan and Bernice Weissbourd -- Using the web to disseminate research and affect public policy / Fred Rothbaum, Nancy F. Martland and Sandra J. Bishop-Josef -- Epilogue : Combining basic and applied science in constructing sound social policy / Edward F. Zigler.

Series:

Decade of behavior, 2000-2010

ISBN:

9781591474258
1591474256

OCLC:

(OCoLC)63125900

LCCN:

2006001679

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)