Although at-risk children develop more problems than the general population, many become healthy, competent young adults. Resilient children usually possess social competence, problem-solving skills, autonomy, and a sense of purpose and future. Families, schools, and communities protecting children from adversity are characterized by caring and…

Theorizes that dramatic play involves and can potentially develop the three conditions that promote and characterize creativity--interaction, transformation, and imagination. Notes that children involved in dramatic play are enhancing their creativity and potential for creative work. (TM)

This questionnaire offers a form that can be used for the evaluation of the role of adults in children's play. The form focuses on adult support of the child's point of view, choice of activities and materials, and psychosocial needs. (SH)

Discusses developmental aspects of children's fears, strategies that help children learn effective ways of coping with normal developmental fears, and strategies to assist those children who experience some difficulties related to fear. Suggests a model for school counselors that may help them to conceptualize their work with a child and his or…

Three experiments examined the modes of processing that children and adults use in learning family-resemblance categories. Children and adults exhibited primarily analytic, rather than holistic, modes of learning. (PCB)

Finds support for the global trend hypothesis which posits that cognitive processing speed changes as a function of age and all component processes change at the same rate. (PCB)

Twenty-four preschool-age girls repeatedly experienced an initially novel episode in a laboratory setting. Each child's knowledge of the episode was assessed in an effort to examine the development of the children's scripts for a recurring event. (PCB)

Children were interviewed about their conceptions of good listening, beliefs about appropriate actions for confused listeners, attributions of responsibility for a listener's confusion, reports of speakers' and listeners' feelings during communication breakdown, and ability to detect inconsistencies during a comprehension-monitoring task. (PCB)

Examines claims about the role of object-sharing in development by describing development of !Kung infants' interest in objects and their caregivers' actions toward them when they are engaged in object-related acts. (PCB)

Notes that early infancy, rather than being a period of helplessness, is a period of active exploration and reciprocal interaction with caregivers. Includes activities caregivers can engage in with infants to stimulate infant sensory abilities. (HTH)

Reports four experiments that examined four-year olds' ability to coordinate orthogonal spatial dimensions. Found that performance was particularly good when two imagined lines of sight were the dimensions to be coordinated. Results support the notion that young children perform better when tasks are set in a meaningful context. (MM)

A study examined serial-memory ability in 10 children (ages 4 to 6) with specific language impairment (SLI) compared to age and language peers. Under long-presentation conditions, the performance of children with SLI resembled that of their peers. Under short-presentation conditions, children with SLI performed worse that age-matched peers.…

Uses the emergent goals framework of G. Saxe (1991) to illustrate how the mathematical problems that emerge in children's play of Monopoly are interwoven with their developing competencies and social interactions. Findings from six groups of four children each, ranging in age from 8 to 14 years, show that the mathematics that emerged during play…

Provides family therapists with an understanding of intercountry adoption. The special life-cycle issues of multinational families and the challenges intercountry adoptees face are discussed to help therapists treat such families more empathically and effectively. (Author/MKA)

Discusses Frege's influence on Piaget. Concludes that: Frege's work influenced Piaget from the outset; their positions were parallel related to logic and judgment, number conservation, and sense and meaning; and the implications of the argument concern nonpsychologism and psycho-logic, psychological laws and causal origins of human judgment, and…