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The Evaluation of the Resolving Conflict Creatively Program: an overviewJ L Aber
National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University, School of Public Health, New York, NY 10032, USA
Am J Prev Med 12:82-90. 1996..The scope and longevity of the RCCP and the empirically rigorous evaluation now under way will make a significant contribution to the field of violence prevention and field-based program evaluation...
Developmental trajectories toward violence in middle childhood: course, demographic differences, and response to school-based interventionJ Lawrence Aber
National Center for Children in Poverty, Joseph L Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
Dev Psychol 39:324-48. 2003....
Stability and change in mothers' representations of their relationship with their toddlersJ L Aber
National Center for Children in Poverty, Joseph L Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032, USA
Dev Psychol 35:1038-47. 1999..Finally, changes in mothers' representations were predictable by positive mothering (which led to increased joy, pleasure, and coherence) and by parenting daily hassles (which led to more anger)...
Resolving conflict creatively: evaluating the developmental effects of a school-based violence prevention program in neighborhood and classroom contextJ L Aber
National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia School of Public Health, New York, NY 10032, USA
Dev Psychopathol 10:187-213. 1998..Implications for future research on developmental psychopathology in context and for the design of preventive interventions are discussed...
Welfare reform, family support, and child development: perspectives from policy analysis and developmental psychopathologyJ Knitzer
Columbia University, National Center for Children in Poverty, School of Public Health, New York, NY 10032, USA
Dev Psychopathol 12:619-32. 2000..The article concludes with broad recommendations for both research and policy...
The effects of poverty on child health and developmentJ L Aber
Columbia University School of Public Health, National Center for Children in Poverty, New York 10032, USA
Annu Rev Public Health 18:463-83. 1997..We propose a standard set of controls and various measures of poverty that should be incorporated in any study, when possible...
Psychopathology among New York city public school children 6 months after September 11Christina W Hoven
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University New York State Psychiatric Institute, NY 10032, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 62:545-52. 2005..The prevalence of child psychopathology, however, has not been assessed in a population-based sample exposed to different levels of mass trauma or across a range of disorders...
The dynamics of life stressors and depressive symptoms in early adolescence: a test of six theoretical modelsMargaret Clements
Department of Applied Psychology, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University, 246 Greene Street, New York, NY 10003, USA
Child Dev 79:1168-82. 2008..Social causation models and the stress generation model did not fit the data. Findings demonstrate the importance of accounting for mood-congruent cognitive bias in stressors-depressive symptoms investigations...
Contextual competence: multiple manifestations among urban adolescentsSara Pedersen
Research Unit on Children's Psychosocial Maladjustment, University of Montreal, 3050 Edouard Montpetit Boulevard, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1J7, Canada
Am J Community Psychol 35:65-82. 2005..In contrast, profiles marked by high engagement in the contexts of athletics or employment predicted more serious delinquency. The authors discuss the implications of these findings for future research and intervention...
Income is not enough: incorporating material hardship into models of income associations with parenting and child developmentElizabeth T Gershoff
School of Social Work, University of Michigan, 1080 S University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Child Dev 78:70-95. 2007..The findings have implications for future study of family income and child development and for identification of promising targets for policy intervention...
Testing equivalence of mediating models of income, parenting, and school readiness for white, black, and Hispanic children in a national sampleC Cybele Raver
Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago, 1155 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Child Dev 78:96-115. 2007..Model equivalence is then tested by examining whether category membership in a race/ethnic group moderates associations between predictors and young children's school readiness...
