information competency literacy research guides

Instructor: Ms. K. Zink
Child development 131 Child Family and Community

This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate background information, books, articles, and internet/web links on a variety of child development topics.

Reference

Child Psychology: A Handbook of Contemporary Issues

Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychological & Behavioral Sciences

DSM-IV-TR; Diagnostic & Stat. Manual of Mental Disorders

Encyclopedia of Psychology

Handbook of Child Psychology
Child Psychology: A Handbook of Contemporary Issues
Handbook of Child Psychology

Books:

Search the Library Catalog for books on your subject using words or phrases such as:
child development; family; child care/child rearing; child psychiatry; child psychology; developmental psychology; children and education; children and socialization/social skills; children and language; children and cognition.

BF (child psychology)

E (children and socialization)

HQ (child development and family)

LB, LC (children and education)

RC (child psychiatry)

RJ (child care/child rearing/ pediatrics)

Subject terms can be used:

psychology

child psychology

adolescent psychology

adulthood

psychiatry

social psychology

cognitive psychology

developmental psychology

human behavior

Or, use narrower terms such as:

family marriage and women

motivation

emotion

memory

intelligence

temperament

emotion

personality

mental health

moral development

psychological disorders

WEBSITES

California Department of Education: Family School, Community

Afterschool.gov: childcare

Children NOW California
Children Now is a research and action organization dedicated to assuring that children grow up in economically secure families