Psychology: Childhood Psychology

ProQuest Video: 1:57:48
Many children receiving rehabilitation and special education services have experienced multiple Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) that may not be recognized or addressed by service providers. In this session, you will learn: the biological/neurological effects of trauma; the effects of ACEs on children’s cognitive, language and social-emotional development; caregiver-child interventions to promote attunement and affect management; and child intervention strategies to promote resiliency and facilitate developmental skills for self-regulation. You will learn a framework that requires an integration of cognition/language and temperament/sensory/regulation factors. Interventions combine a mindfulness/mindsight approach for both caregivers and children.

Alexander Street Video: 2:00:00
This presentation is for clinicians and educators working with parents and children struggling with connection. Based on the science of attachment and thirty years of clinical practice with children and parents, Dr. Siegel will explain the science of attachment, the latest research and guide you in developing your own individualized approaches…optimizing the development of the child’s mind.

Alexander Street Video: 50:00
Presented by paediatrician Guddi Singh, The Wonderful World of Babies will bring together Britain's top experts in child development and dozens of families from across the country to conduct the most far reaching and comprehensive research into the first two years of life, revealing the inner workings of a baby's mind and the complexity and genius of how we all grow up... Episode one investigates the latest research into what makes us individuals. It begins with an experiment that looks at temperament.

Alexander Street Video: 50:00
Episode two looks at the latest research into how we build social relationships. The team set up a series of experiments about how babies become social and learn to relate to the people around them. Starting with a fundamental question - how do we make our very earliest connections with others?

Alexander Street Video: 50:00
The final episode investigates the latest research into how we become independent. The show looks at the huge transition babies make as they learn to crawl. New research suggests that crawling triggers a new understanding about the world and its hazards.

Alexander Street Video: 5:00
In the 1930s a young psychiatrist noticed how many of the disturbed children he saw had been separated from their parents in early life. This was John Bowlby whose work had a massive influence on how psychologists thought about child development. This film explains the key aspects of his classic theory of attachment: the innate need to bond, the care of an attachment figure and maternal deprivation. An ideal introduction to support students starting this topic.

Alexander Street Video: 1:50:00
Join child and adolescent CBT expert Dr. David Pratt for this compelling 90-minute training designed to set you and your clients or students up for success in the school year.

Alexander Street Video: 1:20:00
...The film explores how and why helicopter parenting became the norm in many communities across the United States. The film features experts and advocates in the area of free play including Julie Lythcott-Haims, former Stanford Dean and author of How to Raise an Adult, and Peter Gray, biological psychologist.

Alexander Street Video: 1:29:00
Join Janine Halloran, author of best-selling “Coping Skills for Kids Workbook” to show kids simple, healthy, and safe ways to identify and express their emotions and calm their bodies. By discovering coping skills, they’ll be better able to focus on their work during school time and spend time connecting with their families when schoolwork is done.

Alexander Street Video: 5:00
Raising Curious Learners: Power of Play: Milestones in Learning through Play

ProQuest Video: 3:37
Infants with multiple moderate to severe regulatory problems are at increased risk of significant mental health concerns during childhood.

Alexander Street Video: 6:51
Can we learn aggression from aggressive media? This film looks at experimental, longitudinal and case study research evidence and how social learning, script theory and susceptibility approaches can help understand and explain this evidence.

Alexander Street Video: 3:00
Based on over 40,000 parent-reports, we present normative data for young children's developmental milestones and compare to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines.

Films on Demand: 52:03
Scientists from Europe, the United States and Canada, many of them pioneers in the field, offer convincing evidence that play is not to be taken lightly. In fact, it has the power to make animals and humans smarter, healthier and more likely to survive.

Alexander Street Video: 2:05:00
In this session you'll learn: how to select media experiences informed by the child, the context, and the content; the research on the benefits and risks of screen time; why children and adolescents with ASD, ADHD, and language impairments are at particular risk; and strategies to manage screen time and alternatives to screen time.

Kanopy: 23:00
Do you want a powerful new tool to enhance your work with children and families? Watch, learn, and enjoy as master family therapist Monica McGoldrick explains how to use family play genograms.

(American Psychological Association) Children sometimes need psychological help, just like adults do. Treatment typically begins when parents, teachers, or school counselors notice that children aren’t functioning as well as they could.

(American Psychological Association) The Children, Youth and Families Office is the focal point for APA related activities pertaining to children.

(National Association of School Psychologists) NASP supports effective early childhood education and intervention as a means of promoting positive outcomes for all young children and believes that school psychology services should be provided for all young children with and without identified disabilities.

(Consortium for Science-Based Information on Children, Youth, and Families) Leaders of seven divisions of the American Psychological Association (APA) have formed a consortium to develop a web resource center for behavioral science-based information on children, youth and families.

(NCCP) We aim to improve the lives of low-income children and their families by delivering our research to advocates and policymakers seeking to craft effective policies that promote healthy child development, and strong, nurturing families that are economically secure.

(American Psychological Association) RES is a process through which parents influence “children's racial identity and self-concept, beliefs about the way the world works, and repertoire of strategies and skills for coping with and navigating racism and inter- and intra-racial relationships and interactions.

(SRCD) The Society for Research in Child Development is a professional society for the field of human development, focusing specifically on child development.

(American Psychological Association) For parents, especially those parents of children who have been diagnosed with a behavioral or emotional disorder or those who suspect their children have been suffering from such a problem, these new concerns about the use of psychotropic medications present nagging dilemmas.