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Kathleen C. McCormick; Jane Mendle – Child Development Perspectives, 2025
Research on child development has been advanced by the contributions of human development and human development family science (or studies) departments, which trace their origins to the land grant movement, home economics programs, and the child study movement that coalesced in the United States in the late 19th and 20th centuries. In this…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Child Development, History, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Sally Hang; Geneva M. Jost; Amanda E. Guyer; Richard W. Robins; Paul D. Hastings; Camelia E. Hostinar – Child Development Perspectives, 2024
Loneliness becomes more prevalent as youth transition from childhood into adolescence. A key underlying process may be the puberty-related increase in biological stress reactivity, which can alter social behavior and elicit conflict or social withdrawal (fight-or-flight behaviors) in some youth, but increase prosocial (tend-and-befriend) responses…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Puberty, Social Behavior, Models
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Bradshaw, Jessica; Schwichtenberg, Amy J.; Iverson, Jana M. – Child Development Perspectives, 2022
Developmental change emerges from dynamic interactions among networks of neural activity, behavior systems, and experience-dependent processes. A developmental cascades framework captures the sequential, multilevel, cross-domain nature of human development and is ideal for demonstrating how interconnected systems have far-reaching effects in…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Neurological Organization, Behavior