The Gale encyclopedia of childhood & adolescence
By: Jerome Kagan, executive editor ; Susan B. Gall, managing editor.
Contributors: Kagan, Jerome.; Gall, Susan B.
Publisher: Gale
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 752
Subjects: Child development -- Encyclopedias; Child psychology -- Encyclopedias; Adolescence -- Encyclopedias; Adolescent psychology -- Encyclopedias
Description: Contains nearly 700 entries on "the primary stages, key theories, and issues in child development, and definitions of terms and concepts related to the health care, education, and developmental psychology of children."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 677-706) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: LIST OF ENTRIES: Abandonment -- Ability Grouping -- Abortion -- Acculturation -- Acetaminophen -- Acne -- Acting Out -- Action for Children's Television -- Adaptation -- Adaptive Behavior Scale for Infants and Early Childhood (ABSI) -- Adjustment Disorders -- Adler, Alfred (1870-1937) -- Adolescence -- Adoption -- Affect -- Ainsworth, Mary (1913- ) -- Alcoholism -- Alexia -- Alienation -- Allele -- Allergies -- Allowance and Money Management -- Alopecia -- Alpha Fetoprotein (AFP) Test -- Alternative School -- Amblyopia -- Amenorrhea -- American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry -- American Academy of Pediatrics -- American Psychiatric Association -- American Psychological Association -- American Sign Language (ASL) -- Amniocentesis -- Anabolic Steroids -- Anaclitic Depression -- Anaphylaxis -- Anatomical Age -- Androgyny -- Anemia -- Anesthesia -- Anomia -- Anorexia Nervosa -- Anoxia -- Antibiotics -- Antidepressants -- Antisocial Behavior -- Antisocial Personality Disorder -- Anxiety -- Apgar Score -- Apgar, Virginia (1909-1974) -- Aphasia -- Apnea of Infancy -- Appendicitis -- Apraxia -- Arthritis -- Artificial Respiration -- Asbestos -- Asphyxia Neonatorum -- Aspirin -- Assessment -- Asthma -- At Risk -- Ataxia -- Attachment between Infant and Caregiver -- Attention -- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder [ADHD] -- Attribution Theory -- Auditory Discrimination Test -- Autism -- Autoimmune Disorders -- Average -- Aversive Conditioning -- Babysitter -- Bar and Bat Mitzvah -- Basal Age -- Battered Child Syndrome -- Bayley Scales of Infant Development -- Beery-Buktenica Test -- Behavior Modification -- Behavior Therapy -- Behaviorism -- Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test (Bender-Gestalt) -- Benton Visual Retention Test -- Bettelheim, Bruno (1903-1990) -- Bilingualism / Bilingual Education -- Bilirubin Test -- Binet, Alfred (1857-1911) -- Biological Parent -- Biopsy -- Bipolar Disorder -- Birth -- Birth Defects -- Birth Order -- Bisexuality -- Blood and Blood Disorders -- Body Image -- Boehm Test of Basic Concepts [Revised (Boehm-R)] -- Bonding -- Boredom -- Bowel Disorders -- Bowlby, John (1907-1990) -- Brain -- Brazelton Neonatal Test -- Brazelton, T. Berry (1918-) -- Breast Development -- Breast Enlargement in Adolescent Boys -- Breastfeeding -- Brigance Diagnostic Inventory of Early Development -- Bronchitis -- Brown v. Board of Education -- Bulimia Nervosa -- Bullies -- Burns -- Busing -- California Achievement Tests (CAT) -- Cancer -- Carcinogens -- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) -- Caregiver -- Cataracts -- Catharsis -- Cattell Infant Intelligence Scale -- Celiac Sprue Disease -- Cerebral Palsy -- Character Education -- Cheating -- Chicken Pox -- Child Abuse, Physical -- Child Abuse, Sexual and Emotional -- Child Custody Laws -- Child Psychology -- Childhood Vaccine Injury Act -- Childproofing -- Children's Apperception Test (CAT) -- Chlamydia -- Choking -- Cholesterol -- Chores -- Circumcision -- Claparede, Edouard (1873-1940) -- Classical Conditioning -- Cleft Lip and Palate -- Cliques -- Cognitive Behavior Therapy -- Cognitive Development -- Cold Sores -- Coles, Robert Martin (1929-) -- Colic -- Communication Board -- Communication Skills and Disorders -- Computers in Education -- Concept Formation -- Condom -- Conduct Disorders -- Conflict Resolution -- Conformity -- Conjunctivitis -- Constipation -- Contact Lenses -- Contraception -- Convergent Thinking -- Co-Parent -- Core Curriculum -- Core Knowledge Foundation -- Counterconditioning -- Crawling -- Creativity -- Creativity Tests -- Critical Period -- Crying and Fussing in an Infant -- Cults -- Culture-Fair Test -- Curriculum -- Custody -- Cystic Fibrosis -- Day Care -- Daydreaming -- Death and Mourning -- Deductive Reasoning -- Defense Mechanisms -- Delay of Gratification -- Dendrite -- Dental Development -- Dependent Personality Disorder -- Depression -- Depth Perception -- Desegregation -- Desensitization -- Developmental Delay -- Developmental Psychology -- Developmental Quotient -- Developmental Reading Disorder -- Diabetes Mellitus -- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) -- Diaper Rash -- Diarrhea -- Digestive Disorders -- Diphtheria -- Discipline -- Dissociative Identity Disorder / Multiple Personality Disorder -- Divergent Thinking -- Divorce -- DNA -- Down Syndrome -- Draw-A-Person Test -- Drawings -- Drug Therapy -- Dwarfism -- Dysfunctional Family -- Dyslexia -- Ear -- Early Childhood Education -- Early Intervention -- Eating Disorders -- Ebonics -- Echolalia -- Education for All Handicapped Children Act -- Educational Age -- Educational Psychology -- Electric and Magnetic Fields -- Elimination Diet -- Embryo -- Emotional Development -- Empiricism -- Encephalitis -- Encopresis -- Enuresis -- Epidemiology -- Epilepsy -- Erikson's Theory -- Ethics -- Ethnic Identity -- Exercise -- Externalizing Disorders -- Extracurricular Activities -- Extroversion -- Eye and Vision Development -- Eyelid Problems -- Failure to Thrive (FTT) -- Fairy Tales -- Familial Retardation -- Family -- Family Therapy -- Fantasy -- Father-Child Relationships -- Fear -- Feral Children -- Fetal Alcohol Effect (FAE) and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) -- Fetus -- Fever -- Figure-Ground Perception -- Fine Motor Skills -- Fluoridation -- Foster Care -- Fracture -- Fragile X Syndrome -- Friendship -- Frostig Developmental Test of Visual Perception -- Gambling, Pathological -- Gangs -- Gates-MacGinitie Reading Tests (GMRT) -- Gates-McKillop-Horowitz Reading Diagnostic Tests -- Gender Bias in Education -- Gender Constancy / Gender Identity -- Genetic Disorders -- Genetics and Genetic Counseling -- Genital Herpes -- Genius -- Genotype -- Gesell Development Schedules, Preschool Test, and School Readiness Test -- Gestation Period and Gestational Age -- Giftedness -- Glaucoma -- Goiter -- Gonorrhea -- Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test -- Goodness of Fit -- Grandparents -- Gray Oral Reading Test (GORT-R) -- Gross Motor Skills -- Group Norms -- Guardian -- Guilt -- Habituation -- Haemophilus Influenzae Type B -- Hall, Granville Stanley (1844-1924) -- Hallucinogens -- Handedness -- Hand-Eye Coordination -- Harlow, Harry F. (1905-1981) -- Head Lice -- Head Start Programs -- Hearing Development and Impairment -- Heart -- Hepatitis B Virus -- Hermaphroditism -- Herpes Simplex -- Hinde, Robert A. (1923-) -- Homeless Children -- Home Schooling -- Homosexuality -- Hormones -- Hospitalization -- Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) -- Huntington's Disease -- Hurler's Syndrome -- Hydrocephalus -- Hyperglycemia -- Hypertension -- Hypoglycemia -- Hypoxia -- Imaginary Playmate -- Immune System -- Immunization -- Impulse Control Disorders -- In Loco Parentis -- In Vitro Fertilization -- Inclusive Classrooms -- Inductive Reasoning -- Infant Mortality -- Information Processing Theory -- Inhelder, Barbel (1913-1997) -- Institutionalization / Institutionalized Children -- Intelligence -- Intelligence Quotient (IQ) -- Intermittent Explosive Disorder -- Introversion -- Invulnerables -- Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS) -- Jaundice -- Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (KABC) -- Kibbutz -- Kidney Function and Urological Disorders -- Kleptomania -- Klinefelter's Syndrome -- Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Reasoning -- Kohs Block Design Test -- Language Acquisition Device (LAD) -- Language Delay -- Language Development -- Language Disorder -- Latchkey Children -- Late Developer -- Law of Effect -- Leach, Penelope (1937-) -- Lead Poisoning -- Leadership -- Learned Helplessness -- Learning Disability -- Leukemia -- Lincoln-Oseretsky Motor Development Scale -- Lisping -- Literacy -- Liver Development and Function -- Locus of Control -- Logical Thinking -- Longitudinal Study -- Lung Development and Breathing Disorders -- Lying -- Lymphatic System -- Maccoby, Eleanor Emmons (1917-) -- Macrocephaly -- Malignancy -- Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs -- Masturbation -- McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities (MSCA) -- Mathematics / Mathematical Ability -- Medical Tests -- Meeting Street School Screening Test -- Memory -- Menarche -- Meningitis -- Menstruation -- Mental Disorder -- Mental Retardation -- Merrill-Palmer Scales of Mental Development -- Metamemory -- Methylphenidate -- Metropolitan Achievement Tests -- Metropolitan Readiness Tests -- Microcephaly -- Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory -- Montessori Method -- Montessori, Maria (1870-1952) -- Moral Development -- Motherese or Parentese -- Multicultural Education / Curriculum -- Mumps -- Muscular Dystrophy -- Music and Musical Ability -- Myelinization -- Nail Biting -- Names, Socially Desirable -- Narcissism -- Narcolepsy -- Narcotic Drugs -- National Association of Developmental Disabilities Councils -- National Association of School Psychologists -- National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse -- National Institute of Mental Health -- Nativism -- Negativism -- Neonatal Reflexes -- Night Terrors -- Nightmares -- Nongraded Schools -- Nutrition -- Obesity -- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder -- Occupational Therapist -- Ontogenetic Development -- Operant Conditioning -- Oppositional-Defiant Disorder -- Orthodontics -- Ovum -- Pacifier -- Pain and Pain Management -- Parens Patriae -- Parent-Child Relationships -- Parent Locator Service (PLS) -- Parent-Teacher Conferences -- Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test -- Pediatrician -- Peer Acceptance -- Peer Mediation -- Peer Pressure -- Perfectionism -- Perinatal Period -- Personality Development -- Pertussis -- Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD) -- Phenotype -- Phenylketonuria (PKU) -- Phobia / Phobic Disorder -- Phonics -- Piaget Jean (1896-1980) -- Plastic Surgery -- Poisons and Toxins -- Poliomyelitis -- Pregnancy -- Premature Birth -- Preschool -- Privacy, Child's Right to -- Private Speech -- Psychoanalysis -- Psychotherapy -- Puberty -- Punishment -- Pyromania -- Quadriplegia -- Rabies -- Reading -- Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) -- Retention in School -- Rh Factor -- Rite of Passage -- Rogers, Fred McFeely (1928-) -- Role Playing -- Rorschach Psychodiagnostic Test -- Roseola Infantum -- Rubella -- Rubeola -- Running Away -- Safety -- SAT -- Savant Syndrome -- Scarlet Fever -- Schizophrenia -- School Phobia / School Refusal -- School Vouchers -- Scoliosis -- Security Objects -- Seizures -- Self-Conscious Emotions -- Self-Esteem -- Separation Anxiety -- Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) -- Shaping -- Shyness -- Sickle-Cell Anemia -- Skeletal Development -- Sleep -- Sleep Disorders -- Small for Gestational Age -- Smiling -- Smoking -- Social Competence -- Social Learning Theory -- Social Referencing -- Sociobiology -- Socioeconomic Status (SES) -- Somnabulism -- Special Education -- Specific Language Impairment (SLI) -- Speech Perception -- Speech-Language Pathology -- Sperm Cell (Spermatozoon) -- Spirituality in Children -- Spock, Benjamin McLane(1903-) -- Sports -- Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM) -- Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale -- Stealing -- Stimulant Drugs -- Strabismus -- Strange Situation -- Stranger Anxiety -- Strep Throat -- Stress -- Stuttering -- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) -- Sun Protection -- Suicide / Suicidal Behavior -- Sweat Test -- Swimming -- Syphilis -- System of Multicultural Pluralistic Assessment (SOMPA) -- Tantrums -- Tay-Sachs Disease -- Teacher Training / Competency -- Television and Aggression -- Temperament -- Teratogen -- Test Anxiety -- Test of Adolescent Language (TOAL) -- Test of Language Development (TOLD) -- Testosterone -- Tests of General Educational Development (GED) -- Tetanus -- Thalidomide -- Thematic Apperception Test -- Thumb Sucking -- Tic Disorder -- Time-Out Procedure -- Toilet Training -- Tough love -- Tourette Syndrome -- Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS) -- Toys -- Trait -- Transsexualism -- Trichotillomania -- Trisomy -- Truancy -- Tuberculosis -- Tumor -- Turner Syndrome -- Tutor -- Twins -- Underachiever -- Undesirable Language -- Varicella -- Video Games -- Vineland Social Maturity Scale -- Vitamins and Minerals -- Vocational Education -- Vomiting -- Watson, John Broadus (1878-1958) -- Weaning -- Wechsler Intelligence Scales -- Well Baby Examination -- Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT-R) -- Williams Syndrome -- Withdrawal Behavior -- Working Mothers -- Year-Round School.