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Cultural Differences in Emotional Development
Introduction Everybody seems to know what an emotion is, until being asked to define it.1 Accordingly there is a myriad of definitions, some stressing more the biological roots, some more the...
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Development of Indirect Aggression Before School Entry
Introduction Attempts to understand and prevent childhood aggression have been predominantly guided by a male-oriented model with a focus on physical aggression. However, children can also hurt...
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Effective Daycare-Kindergarten Interventions to Prevent Chronic Aggression
Introduction Societal concern about antisocial behaviours of children and adolescents has increased over the years, in part due to the enormous financial costs of youth crime,1,2 as well as the...
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Corporal Punishment
Introduction One of the key responsibilities of parents and teachers is to promote desired behaviours in children and to handle misbehaviours when they occur. Parents and teachers have many options...
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Evidence for the Role of Home Visiting in Child Maltreatment Prevention
Introduction In 2019, 4.4 million referrals of alleged acts of maltreatment involving 7.9 million children were made to child protective services agencies in the United States. Almost 2.4 million...
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Preschool Programs: Effective Curricula
Introduction High quality early care and education has been associated with short-term and long-term cognitive, social, and emotional benefits for young children’s development. When quality is...
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Home visiting
This topic aims to provide a better understanding of home visiting programs, their purpose, their differences and their common objectives as a prevention, orientation, guidance, support and education...
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Parent and Child Mental Health and Home Visiting
Introduction Maternal and paternal depression are prevalent among 20% of women1-4 and 10% of men5,6 during the perinatal period. Mental health problems (of which depression is the most common) are...
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Prenatal/Postnatal Home Visiting Programs and Their Impact on Children’s Social and Emotional Development
Introduction Social and emotional problems in young children can be traced to mothers’ prenatal health,1-4 parents’ caregiving5,6 and their life-course (timing of subsequent pregnancies,...
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Replicating and Scaling Up Evidence-Based Home Visiting Programs: The Role of Implementation Research
Introduction Over the past two decades, a growing number of home visiting programs have been developed and implemented in North America and internationally to support parents with young children....