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:

Go to the

Library Homepage and click on the link Library Catalog. Use phrases such as:

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

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)

Internet Resources:

American Public Health Assoc.  http://www.apha.org

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/needphp/ddt/tcoyd

Children’s Defense Fund http://www.childrensdefense.org

FDA  http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/

Head Start Bureau http://www2.acf.dhhs.gov/program

Healthy People 2010  http://health.gov/healthypeople

Indian Health Service  http://www.ihs.gov

Maternal and Child Health      http://www.os.dhhs.gov/hrsa/mchb

National Association for the Education of young Children http://www.naeyc.org

National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov

National Network for Childcare http://www.nncc.org/Nutrition/nutr.page.htm

National Resource Center for Health & Safety in Childcare  http://nre.uchsc.edu/national

Parents Information http://www.parentsoup.com

WIC http://fns.usda.gov/wic

Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families  http://www.zerotothree.org

 

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