Resource Database
“Social Development” Results
“G” is for Growing: Thirty Years of Research on Sesame Street
From the website: This volume…serves as a marker of the significant role that Sesame Street plays in the education and socialization of young children. More...
Alice Cahn
Alice Cahn, vice president of acquisitions and development for daytime on Cartoon Network/US draws on an extensive career immersed in the world of children’s entertainment as she writes a new chapter at this renowned entertainment center for youth. More...
American Family Physician
From the website: American Family Physician is a semimonthly, peer-reviewed journal of the American Academy of Family Physicians. More...
American Psychological Association
The APA publishes research journals and books dealing with issues related to all aspects of media impact on children, and the website provides links to articles for parents. More...
Barbara Wilson, Ph.D.
Professor Wilson’s research focuses on children’s responses to the media, particularly fear responses and responses to televised violence. More...
Bill Isler
From the Family Communications, Inc. website: Bill Isler is a longtime professional educator and advocate for children. More...
Board on Children, Youth, and Families
From the website: The Board on Children, Youth, and Families brings the multidisciplinary knowledge and analytic tools of the behavioral, health and social sciences to bear on the development of policies, programs, and services… More...
Center for Evidence-Based Practice: Young Children with Challenging Behavior
The mission of the Center is to promote the use of evidence-based practice to meet the needs of young children who have, or are at risk for, problem behavior. More...
Center for Research on Interactive Technology, Television and Children
From the website: CRITC is dedicated to furthering research and knowledge on the effects of electronic media on children’s social development and academic achievement. More...
Center on Media and Child Health
From the website: The Center on Media and Child Health is dedicated to understanding and responding to the effects of media on the physical, mental, and social health of children through research, production, and education. More...
Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning
From the website: The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning is intended to promote the social emotional outcomes and enhance the school readiness of low-income children birth to age 5… More...
Child Development
From the website: As the flagship journal of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Child Development has published articles, essays, reviews, and tutorials on various topics in the field of child development since 1930. More...
Children and Interactive Media - Research Compendium Update
From the website: This report is an update of the Children and Interactive Media: A Compendium of Current Research and Directions for the Future report to the Markle Foundation from October 2000. More...
Children and Television: Fifty Years of Research
From the website: This seminal volume is a comprehensive review of the literature on children’s television, covering fifty years of academic research on children and television. More...
Children’s Defense Fund
From the website: The Children’s Defense Fund’s Leave No Child Behind(r) mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start… More...
Children’s Learning from Educational Television: Sesame Street and Beyond
From the website: This volume documents the impact of educational television in a variety of subject areas and proposes mechanisms to explain its effects. More...
Children, Youth and Families Consortium
From the website: The Children, Youth, and Family Consortium was established during the Fall of 1991 to build the capacity of the University of Minnesota and Minnesota communities to use research, influence policy and enhance practice… More...
Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
From the website: The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning will enhance children’s success in school and life by promoting coordinated, evidence-based social, emotional, and academic learning as an essential part of education from preschool through high school. More...
Common Sense Media
From the website: Common Sense Media is dedicated to improving the media and entertainment lives of kids and families. More...
Dafna Lemish, Ph.D.
Professor Dafna Lemish is Editor of the Journal of Children and Media. She has written extensively on children and media. More...
Early Childhood and Parenting Collaborative
The Early Childhood and Parenting Collaborative at the University of Illinois is home to more than a dozen projects focused on the education, care, and parenting of young children. More...
Early Childhood Education Journal
From the website: Early Childhood Education Journal is a professional publication for early childhood practitioners,... More...
Early Childhood Research Quarterly
From the website: Early Childhood Research Quarterly is the scholarly journal of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). More...
Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media
From the website: The Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media presents state-of-the-art research and ready-to-use facts on the media’s interaction with children and adolescents. More...
Foundation for Child Development
From the website: The Foundation for Child Development (FCD) is a national, private philanthropy dedicated to the principle that all families should have the social and material resources to raise their children to be healthy, educated and productive members of their communities. More...
Fred Rogers
From the website: In 1966, he developed Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, a children’s television series for station WQED in Pittsburgh. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood is the longest-running program on public television. More...
Gary Knell
From the website: Gary Knell is President and Chief Executive Officer of Sesame Workshop. Mr. Knell leads the non-profit educational organization in its mission to create innovative, engaging content that maximizes the educational power of all media to help children reach their highest potential. More...
Handbook of Children and the Media
From the website: Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of renowned scholars from around the world, the Handbook of Children and the Media is the first and only all-inclusive, comprehensive analysis of the field for students and scholars. More...
Jerome L. Singer, Ph.D.
Jerome L. Singer is a specialist in research on the psychology of imagination and daydreaming. More...
John Cook Wright, Ph.D.
John Cook Wright, a professor and researcher in the Division of Human Development and Family Sciences whose specialization was the effects of media on children,... More...
Journal of Children and Media
From the website: Journal of Children and Media is an interdisciplinary and multi-method peer-reviewed publication… More...
Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics
From the website: Written for physicians, clinicians, psychologists and researchers, each bimonthly issue of the Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics is devoted entirely to the developmental and psychosocial aspects of pediatric health care. More...
Journal of Media Psychology
From the website: The Journal of Media Psychology, is a non-profit, non-partisan, educational forum for research, theory, comment, criticism, review, reportage, and scholarship on the psychological impact of the media on individuals and cultures. More...
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
From the website: The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is dedicated to improving the well-being of all young children… More...
National Black Child Development Institute
From the website: Since 1970 The National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI), a nonprofit organization, has provided and supported programs, workshops, and resources for African American children, their parents and communities… More...
National Center for Early Development and Learning
From the website: Research at the National Center for Early Development & Learning (NCEDL), focuses on enhancing the cognitive, social and emotional development of children from birth through age eight. More...
Parents’ Action for Children
From the website: Parents’ Action for Children was founded in 1997 by actor/director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele as the I Am Your Child Foundation (IAYC). More...
PEDIATRICS
From the website: PEDIATRICS is an official peer-reviewed journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. More...
Ready to Learn International Center on Care and Education of Children
From the website: The Ready to Learn International Center on Care and Education of Children works in partnership… to carry out needs assessments, policy analysis, research, strategic planning, program design, technical assistance, and training. More...
Rosemarie Truglio, Ph.D.
From the website: Rosemarie Truglio is responsible for the development of the interdisciplinary curriculum on which Sesame Street is based, and for the formative research conducted to inform production… More...
Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
From the website: The Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics was founded in 1982 to improve the health care of infants, children, and adolescents by promoting research and teaching in developmental and behavioral pediatrics. More...
Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)
From the website: The Society is a multidisciplinary, not-for-profit, professional association with a membership of approximately 5,500 researchers, practitioners, and human development professionals from over 50 countries. More...
Susan Linn, Ed.D.
From the website: Susan Linn is Associate Director of the Media Center of the Judge Baker Children’s Center and an Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She has written extensively about the effects of media and commercial marketing on children. More...
Talaris Research Institute
From the website: Talaris Research Institute, located in Seattle, WA, works to improve the healthy social, emotional and cognitive development of children from the prenatal period through age five by providing parents with tools to raise their children effectively. More...
The Effects of Electronic Media on Children ages Zero to Six: A History of Research
This issue brief explores the history of research about the effects of electronic media on children zero to six years old (including the funding sources), summarizes the findings of the seminal studies in this area, and notes gaps in the research base. More...
Tufts University Child & Family WebGuide
The Child & Family WebGuide describes trustworthy websites on topics of interest to parents and professionals. More...
Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America (WECAN)
From the website: WECAN’s mission is to nurture the work with young children from pre-birth to age seven, based on an understanding of the healthy development of the child in body, soul and spirit. More...
Yale University Family Television Research and Consultation Center
From the website: The Yale University Family Television Research and Consultation Center has become the focus of a variety of activities related to the popular electronic media and especially the role of television and other communication processes in child, adolescent, and family life. More...
Zero to Three Journal
Zero to Three Journal keeps subscribers informed on advances in research, programs and policies which affect infants, toddlers and their families. More...
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