Sentences with phrase «child psychologist david»

We all want to keep our kids from harm, but child psychologist David Elkind explains that sheltering them from every problem and minor injury has lifelong psychological implications.

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The groundbreaking work that Daniel Patrick Moynihan did in 1965, on the black family, is an example — along with the critical research of psychologist Judith Wallerstein over several decades on the impact of divorce on children; Barbara Dafoe Whitehead's well - known work on the outcomes of single parenthood for children; Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur's seminal book, Growing Up with a Single Parent; and David Blankenhorn's Fatherless America, another lengthy summarization of the bad empirical news about family breakup.

Along similar lines, Stanford psychologists Mark Lepper and David Greene, in a paper entitled «Turning Play into Work,» report on two groups of preschool children who were tested on their continuing interest in a certain play activity.

In his book The Evolution of Desire, evolutionary psychologist David Buss notes, «According to a United Nations study of millions of people in forty - five societies, 39 percent of divorces occur when there are no children, 26 percent when there is only a single child, 19 percent where there are two, and less than 3 percent when there are four or more.»

«Parents worry that their child must need his thumb, and they'll be taking away something he'll need; but it's an anachronism,» said Dr. Susan Heitler, a clinical psychologist in Denver and the author of a children's book on the topic, «David Decides: No More Thumbsucking» (1993, Avon, $ 8).

Child psychologist and pediatric dream expert David Foulkes posits that babies use their REM sleep to develop new brain pathways, and later, even develop language.

David A. Crenshaw, Ph.D., ABPP, RPT - S is a nationally renowned child psychologist who is best known for his pioneering work in the area of play therapy and the use of facility dogs in trauma - informed child therapy.

The research was conducted by Duke psychologists David Rabiner, Madeline Carrig and Kenneth Dodge, the William McDougall Professor of Public Policy and director of Duke's Center for Child and Family Policy.

Says child psychologist Dr. David Elkind, «The art comes from the teacher's personality, experience, and talents.

Industrial and postindustrial life, very recent phenomena in evolutionary terms, require kinds of learning that are constructed artificially and sometimes arduously on the natural of the mind — a point that has been made very effectively and in detail by David Geary, a research psychologist specializing in children's learning of mathematics at the University of Missouri.

Penn State University professor, David Ramey, detailed in a study two years ago that black children are more - likely than white peers to be suspended, expelled, and even sent to jail for the same acts of misbehavior; white children, on the other hand, are more - likely to be referred to psychologists and other medical professionals.

As a Penn State University professor, David Ramey, detailed in a study published last month in Sociology of Education, black children are more - likely than white peers to be suspended, expelled, and even sent to jail for the same acts of misbehavior; white children, on the other hand, are more - likely to be referred to psychologists and other medical professionals.

In an article to appear in the journal Child Development, «Distinguishing polemic from commentary in science,» physicist David Grimes and psychologist Dorothy Bishop write: Exposure to nonionizing radiation used in wireless communication remains a contentious topic in the public mind — while the overwhelming scientific evidence to date suggests that microwave and radio frequencies used in modern -LSB-...]

«Dr. David Wilson, a clinical psychologist who specializes in child - sexual - abuse matters, testified at trial that he had extensive field experience, having undertaken hundreds (if not thousands) of abuse evaluations... and having served on the board of directors of a child - advocacy center in Gadsden.