In 2014, the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child presents an opportunity for school psychology to evaluate its achievements relevant to the Convention, as well as its current and future strategic adherence to the Convention’s principles. With analysis of key school psychology documentation from the UK, it is shown that for school psychologists the achiev...

A sample of 146 African American adolescents living in impoverished neighborhoods with high HIV rates participated in the Chicago HIV Prevention and Adolescent Mental Health Project (CHAMP), a longitudinal study of adolescent HIV risk exposure. The current study examined self-reported reasons why African American adolescents may participate in risky sexual behavior. Adolescents completed a ques...

In the past decade, there has been considerable attention devoted to evaluating the scientific merit of psychological treatments. In 1995, Division 12 (Clinical Psychology) of the American Psychological Association (APA) embarked on an evaluation of evidence-based (formerly referred to as empirically supported) treatments for psychopathology (Task Force on Promotion and Dissemination of Psychol...

Can playscapes promote early childhood inquiry towards environmentally responsible behaviors? An exploratory study R. Alan Wight, Heidi Kloos, Catherine V. Maltbie & Victoria W. Carr a Arlitt Child & Family Research & Education Center, Educational Studies, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA b Department of Psychology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA c Evaluation Service...

1Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry and MRC Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London 2Institute of Medical Genetics, Division of Cancer and Genetics, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, UK 3Mental Health and Learning Disabilities division, Anuerin Bevan University Health Board, Newport, UK. ...

Hudson, J., Lester, K. J., Lewis, C. M., Tropeano, M., Creswell, C., Collier, D. A., Cooper, P., Lyneham, H. J., Morris, T., Rapee, R. M., Roberts, S., Donald, J. A. and Eley, T. C. (2013) Predicting outcomes following cognitive behavior therapy in child anxiety disorders: the influence of genetic, demographic and clinical information. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 54 (10). pp. 10...

Department of Human Genetics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Department of Epidemiology, Eras...

Daniel le Grange, PhD, and Ivan Eisler, PhD Professor of Psychiatry, Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Chicago; and Director, Eating Disorders Program, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois Reader in Family Psychology and Family Therapy, Kings College, University of London,, Institute of Psychiatry, London and Head of C...

Corrigendum to ‘‘Hemispheric division of function is the result of independent probabilistic biases’’ [Neuropsychologia 47 (2009) 1938–1943] Andrew J.O. Whitehouse , Dorothy V.M. Bishop b a Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Centre for Child Health Research, The University of Western Australia, PO Box 855, West Perth, Western Australia 6872, Australia b Department of Experimental Psy...