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Baby Steps (1994)

Baby Steps is a guide to physical, cognitive, and socioemotional development in the first 2 years of life.

The Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development

The Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development is a program of the Carnegie Foundation of New York. Its goal is to improve the health and well-being of adolescents. The council has generated a number of task forces to improve education, reduce adolescent pregnancy, and reduce alcohol and drug use among adolescents.

Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Research on Adolescence, and Journal of Gerontology

These are leading research journals in human development and they publish a wide array of articles on biological, cognitive, and socioemotional dimensions of development.

Child Poverty Action Group

Among its other advocacy initiatives, this group sponsors a toll-free help line for children in trouble.

Foster Grandparent Program

This program matches older Americans with special-needs children. Older adult volunteers work in many different settings, ranging from Head Start programs to foster-care homes. ACTION also runs the Senior Companion Program, which matches older adults with frail elderly persons. A special goal of this program is to help the homebound elderly gain the confidence needed for independent living.

Handbook of Parenting, Vols. 1–4 (1995)

These four volumes provide a wealth of information on a wide variety of parenting issues. Leading researchers discuss such topics as divorce, adoption, gifted children, ethnicity, day care, moral development, and poverty.

How to Save the Children (1992)

This innovative resource guide is filled with practical ideas about how volunteerism can help to counter the effects of poverty and neglect on America’s children.

How to Survive the Loss of a Love (1991)

This book provides messages about how to cope with the loss of a loved one. The authors address loss through death as well as other types of loss, such as divorce, rape, loss of long-term goals, and loss through aging.

The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours (1992)

Edelman’s book stimulates thought about what kind of nation we want to be, what kind of values mean the most to us, and what we can do to improve the health and well-being of our nation’s children and parents.

National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)

NAEYC is a large organization that serves as an important advocacy group for young children, has developed guidelines for a number of dimensions of early childhood education, and publishes the excellent journal Young Children.

The National Council on Aging

This organization is dedicated to increasing the well-being of older Americans. The council publishes a number of materials about aging and services available to older Americans.

Older Women’s League (OWL)

The Older Women’s League is for women of any age who support issues of concern to midlife and older women, including access
to jobs and pensions for older women and maintaining self-
sufficiency. The League publishes Owl Observer.

Touchpoints (1992)

Touchpoints is respected pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton’s most recent book. Brazelton focuses on the concerns and questions that parents have about the child’s feelings, behavior, and development from pregnancy to first grade.

You and Your Adolescent (1990)

This is an excellent book for parents of adolescents. It serves the dual purpose of educating parents about how adolescents develop and giving them valuable parenting strategies for coping with teenagers.

Internet Resources

http://www.efn.org/~djz/birth/birthindex.html

On-line resource for pregnancy and birth concerns.

http://www.netaxs.com:80/~iris/infoweb/baby.html

Great links on baby care.

http://www.attach-bond.com/

Explore all kinds of attachment concerns at this site.

http://idealist.com/children/

The Child Development Website reviews classic psychology theories of development.

http://www.sunnyhill.bc.ca/Lalonde/JPS/biography/biog.html

A life history of Jean Piaget.

http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/n/x/nxd10/family3.htm

Links on how to survive being in a family.

http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/n/x/nxd10/adolesce.htm

A resource page created by college students on managing adolescence.

http://www.iog.wayne.edu/apadiv20/newslet.htm

APA’s Division 20 on Adulthood and Aging publishes its newsletter.

http://www.iog.wayne.edu/apadiv20/newslet.htm

Comprehensive links about near-death experiences.

http://www.wic.org/bio/eross.htm

A biography of death and dying specialist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.

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