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Provides information about the New York Longitudinal Scales and Carey Temperament Scales. Includes a temperament newsletter.

The website of the Action Alliance for Children, which publishes the Children's Advocate newsmagazine. You can read the current and back issues to 1997 at this website. Web links are provided to other information about current trends and policy issues affecting children and families.

Provides an overview of Bowlby's Attachment Theory.

John Bowlby (1907 - 1990) was a psychoanalyst (like Freud) and believed that mental health and behavioral problems could be attributed to early childhood.

Provides an overview of Ivan Pavlov's classical conditioning.

Provides a biography of B.F. Skinner and his theory based on operant conditioning.

ZERO TO THREE is a national, nonprofit organization that provides parents, professionals and policymakers the knowledge and know-how to nurture early development.

As our society becomes even more technically and socially complex, we cannot afford to continue to allow large numbers of children to miss out on the positive experiences they need in infancy and early childhood; the costs, in terms of lost intellectual potential and increased rates of emotional and behavioral problems, are too high. The new developments in brain research show us what children need; our challenge is to ensure that every child receives it.

This bulletin provides basic information on brain development and the effects of abuse and neglect on that development. The information is designed to help professionals understand the emotional, mental, and behavioral impact of early abuse and neglect in children who come to the attention of the child welfare system.