Abstract: Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal that provides an international, interdisciplinary forum for new developments and in-depth reviews on current thought and practices. The Journal publishes original research reviews, conceptual and theoretical papers, and related work in the broad area of the behavioral sciences that pertains to infants, children, adolescents, and families. Contributions originate from a wide array of disciplines, among them psychology (clinical, community, developmental, family, school), medicine (family practice, pediatrics, psychiatry), public health, social work, and education. Coverage includes both science and application, and extends to etiology, assessment, description, treatment and intervention, prevention, methodology, and public policy.

Abstract: Disciplines that study science are relatively well established in philosophy, history, and sociology. Psychology of science, by comparison, is a late bloomer but has recently shown signs of codific...

Abstract: In this essay, we argue that there is no scientific basis for the assumption that own well-being or command over resources is the exclusive and immutable concern of human individuals. The natural sciences, evolutionary biology in particular, and other social and behavioral sciences, especially evolutionary psychology, suggest that individual human beings may be genetically inclined towards concern not only with their own success in acquiring the resources necessary for thriving and reproducing, but also with the success of off-spring and other kin.

Abstract: Studies of human development have taken an ethnographic turn in the 1990s. In this volume, anthropologists, psychologists and sociologists discuss how qualitative methodologies have strengthened the understanding of cognitive, emotional and behavioural development, and of the difficulties of growing up in contemporary society. Part One, informed by a post-positivist philosophy of science, argues for the validity of ethnographic knowledge. Part Two examines a range of qualitative methods, from participant observation to the hermeneutic elaboration of texts. In Part Three, ethnographic methods are applied to issues of human development across the life span and to social problems including poverty, racial and ethnic marginality, and crime. Restoring ethnographic methods to a central place in social inquiry, the 22 essays in this text should interest everyone concerned with the epistemological problems of context, meaning and subjectivity in the behavioural sciences.

Abstract: Researchers in the social and behavioral sciences medicine and public health have barely begun the process of delineating the nature of violence. Explanations for violence conceptualize the phenomenon in three very different ways - as embodied in (1) individuals (2) social circumstances and (3) social relationships. Data on violence and affection between heterosexual domestic partners support the first and third hypotheses but not the second. These data also suggest that social relations powerfully condition individual behavioral predispositions and thus warrant two inferences: first the most fruitful unit of analysis in violence studies is not the individual but specific individuals in specific social relationships or perhaps the social relationships themselves; second the most fruitful intervention efforts will be those which equalize gender power relations. (authors)

Abstract: Multiple regression analysis has been widely used by researchers to analyze complex social problems since the 1950s. A specialization in economics, known as econometrics, developed out of a recognition that multiple regression is based upon a large number of assumptions—many of which are commonly violated in specific applications. Econometricians developed tests for violations of the regression model assumptions, as well as a variety of corrective measures for estimating regression models in the presence of many of the violations. Unfortunately, the mathematical sophistication required to understand the econometrics literature started out high and has continued to rise over the years. As a consequence, an understanding of the assumptions of the regression model, tests for violations, and corrective estimation approaches have failed to permeate widely many other policy-related disciplines such as political science, social work, public administration, and sociology. One of the key objectives of this book is to translate the results from the econometrics literature into language that policy analysts from other disciplines can understand easily. A second objective is to present a discussion of so-called limited-dependent variable models. One of the assumptions of the regression model is that the dependent variable is measured on an interval scale. But often the dependent variable of interest is discrete or categorical. Whether someone is in poverty or, whether they are working full-time, part-time, or out of the labor force, marital status—all are examples of categorical variables that might be of policy interest. Moreover, the growing availability of large-scale public use data sets containing information on individuals and families has heightened the relevance of categorical variables in policy analysis. The mathematical preparation required to understand procedures for estimating categorical models is, however, even more daunting than that for fully understanding and using the regression model. As with the theoretical development of the regression model, most presentations of categorical models, such as Logit and Probit, are to be found in econometric literature. Moreover, this literature offers little in the way of practical advice on how to estimate and interpret model results. This book is the first to present a detailed and accessible discussion of multiple regression and limited-dependent variable models in the context of policy analysis. As such it will be an invaluable resource for most scholars, researchers, and students in the social and behavioral sciences.

Abstract: The Integrated Clinical Experience (ICE) at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine is a required, two-year course of study for first- and second-year students. It provides early clinical experiences in primary care settings in metropolitan and rural areas, and related instruction in the social, behavioral, and ethical foundations of medicine. The authors describe the course goals, teaching format, topics, and evaluation of students and faculty. ICE is based on the assumptions that medicine is an applied behavioral science as well as an applied biological science, that critical reflection is important in professional education, and that early exposure to primary care will promote interest in primary care careers. The authors also describe some of the challenges associated with the implementation of this new course of study. These include student dissatisfaction with behavioral and ethical topics, resistance to critical reflection about their personal attitudes and values, and discomfort with "subjective" grading. ICE has also been controversial with some basic science faculty who feel they have had to sacrifice curriculum time to make room for this new program. Also, recruiting the large number of faculty, particularly physicians, needed to run the program has been difficult. Finally, the organization of the curriculum, with basic sciences in the morning and the ICE in the afternoon, may inadvertently reinforce the conceptual split between the biomedical and psychosocial dimensions of medicine. Efforts are under way to address this problem by exploring ways to intergrate the curriculum better.

Abstract: Accessible online at: http://BioMedNet.com/karger In 1996, Fava and Montanari [1] published a survey of national trends of research in behavioral and medical sciences, based on the National Science Indicators on Diskette (NSIOD), developed by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI). These data reflected research performance by 90 nations during the years 1981–1994. The data and the comments that were included attracted considerable attention. In 1997, the authors [2] updated those trends (1981–1995), taking advantage of the fact that psychology and psychiatry could be differentiated, whereas until 1994 they were subsumed under the same heading however without specific comments. We present here the 1981–1996 data concerned with psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience. The number of papers published per year, their citations, and the number of citations received per paper published (impact) can be analyzed. Contributions of journals listed in Current

Abstract: Normal physical time, as generally used in the practice of physiological studies as a parameter allowing the dynamics of life processes to be described, is a concept borrowed from mechanics and physics. Measurements of time are made using external devices in which a cyclic process is used as a constant and the cycle counter is organized in such a way that the time scale is in accord with astronomical phenomena determining the durations of the day and year. Additionally, it is very clear that there is no unambiguous relationship between the duration of life processes and physical time. The calendrical age of a body correlates only with its physiology and does not reflect its actual state. The durations of particular life processes in the physical time scale are always different, even in a single body, when they are repeated. Therefore, Ukhtomskii and Schmalzhausen, and Vernadskii and Prigozhin and others have described special physiological and biological time [2, 7, 10, 12]. Ginetsinskii, in his Handbook of Physiology, quotes Lapik's words, that \"each organ marks time using its own inherent units of measurement,\" and adds: \"Observation of the time factor requires selection of an experimental system in which the investigator can measure the duration of situations in the same units as the object of study marks time\" [1, p. 26]. Contemporary publications on this topic have also developed the concept of time as an internal characteristic of a system which is closely associated with the state of the object of interest [5, 6, 11]. Particular note has been made of the polymodality of time and the existence of individual internal time scales in biological systems [3, 4]. The question of special local time has thus far fallen under the remit of philosophical investigations or has arisen during theoretical considerations of global general biological problems. For practicing researchers, this problem appears to be too much of a digression. However, experimental practice indicates that the use of special time, based on the process of interest rather than being associated with physical time, is not only useful but even essential for studies of directly observable physiological phenomena. As an example, Fig. 1A shows a recording of spike activity from a neostriatal neuron obtained in a monkey experiment [8, 9]. The animal was performing a typical operant reflex consisting of pressing a lever in response to an initiation signal. The moment at which the signal was switched on is indicated by the dotted vertical line at the left end of the trace; each point plotted on the trace represents a neuron spike and each line of points represents a separate performance of the reflex. What can the investigator see in this experimental trace when using physical time, our normal form of time? The increased density of points at the start of the recording provides evidence that the initiation signal induces activation of the neuron. After this, there is a short reduction in activity, while the density of points in the remainder of the trace is virtually uniform. This is the type of spike distribution which is generally used to plot peristimulus histograms (Fig. 1B). The final part of the histogram, corresponding to the final phase of the movement performance, cannot be used for functional characterization of the neuron since each histogram bin in this region contains spikes generated before, during, and after performance of the reflex. Consequently, the last bins of the histogram have been crossed out, although they contain significant numbers of spikes intimately associated with the animal movement being studied. The motor response can be seen in a histogram constructed in \"opposite time,\" i.e., relative to the motor response marker (Fig. IC, D) (in which the vertical dotted line corresponds to movement completion and darker dots correspond to stimulus start times); however, in this case the response to the initiation signal is \"washed out.\" Additionally, the two resulting histograms nonetheless do not represent the same time series of neuronal activity, corresponding to performance of the movement by the animals, as they are aligned by their \"washed out\" and functionally undefined regions.

Abstract: The starting point of this project is an interest in the social influence of psychology during the twentieth century. It differs from other analyses in that it focuses on behavioural psychology, examining its contribution to new ways of thinking about people and new ways of intervening in their lives in the name of social as well as individual improvement. Despite the demise of behaviourism and the controversy surrounding behaviour modification techniques, the last twenty years has seen a widespread increase in their use in non-clinical settings for non-clinical problems, most controversially in residential institutions. However, over the last two decades their use has extended into the "well community" as solutions to a range of individual and family problems and it is these that form the focus of the thesis. Drawing conceptually and methodologically on Foucauldian analyses of the human sciences and "government", the study aims to account for these expansions by examining the formation and conditions of existence of behavioural discourses on social improvement, by documenting the recent and current uses of behavioural approaches in the field of child and family welfare, and considering the implications of these for the government of the social. Analysing textual and interview sources, I show how changing internal and external conditions of behavioural discourse and practice have made possible these expansions. In particular I trace the contribution of behavioural discourses on locus of control to current emphases on empowerment. In conclusion, I argue that behavioural approaches have a number of characteristics that enable them to fit reciprocally with changing economic, organisational and ethical conditions and that recent deployments of behavioural approaches point not so much to the decline of the social as a domain to be governed, but to transformations in the way that is it is configured, which continue to connect the improvement of society with the improvement of the individual.

Abstract: The substantial theoretical basis of travel-choice modelling is criticised for being an inaccurate description of how people make choices. Drawing on research in the behavioural sciences in general, and psychology in particular, several alternative behavioural assumptions are proposed. These include problem solving in connection with interdependent choices; information acquisition, representation, and use preceding choices; accuracy-effort trade-offs in the application of decision rules for making isolated choices; the constraining influence of social factors on selfish motives; and planning and automatisation in the implementation of choices. Although less simple and elegant than the current theory, such a set of more valid bahavioural assumptions is in particular needed in a field concerned with applications.

Abstract: . The era of child development in pediatrics began in the late 1920s with the establishment of a number of child research institutes under medical auspices, the organization of the Society for Research in Child Development, and a growing awareness that an emphasis on all aspects of the life of the child, and not exclusively on his or her biologic development, was essential. This realization was reinforced by the World War II Selective Service experience, which revealed a relatively high incidence of psychologic and social ineffectiveness among our youth. The expectation developed that child care professionals might be in a position to minimize such outcomes in the future, and parents increasingly began to look to professional services for help with child-rearing. Although there was considerable effort during this period to foster pediatric concern with the psychologic and social development of children and their adaptations to a rapidly changing society, conceptual confusion and resistance within the pediatric academic community mitigated against its success. Clinical investigation prospers most when it draws on theory and methodology from a basic science. In its early dependence on child psychiatry for addressing psychosocial problems in children, pediatrics was relying on another clinical discipline for its research orientation, while lagging in its recognition of developments in the social and biologic sciences, in part because of their separation from pediatric settings. Resistance to the incorporation of the psychosocial aspects of child development into pediatric training has come primarily from academic pediatricians. In part attributable to the rigid institutionalization that traditionally has inhibited academic change and innovation, the opposition also may be ascribed to the belief of some academicians that psychosocial considerations are not a proper concern of pediatricians. Others hold the view that social science data are “soft,” whereas those derived from biologic research are “hard.” Such positions, of course, have nothing to do with good science, because the scientific method demands excellence in experimental design, data collection, and data analysis regardless of the discipline. The question is, therefore, one of excellence—not of hardness or softness of data. Because critical analysis alone is insufficient to meet present needs, a constructive action plan is necessary. Accordingly, the Executive Board of the Academy established the Section on Child Development to stimulate interest and research in the field of human growth and development, to provide a forum to facilitate communication among professional workers in the field, and to foster educational activities for pediatricians and others to increase their understanding and competence in child development. In order to incorporate such teaching and research into the mainstream of pediatrics, a core of pediatric faculty members is required, with a disciplined background of research and teaching analogous to our academic colleagues in pediatric subspecialties such as endocrinology and infectious disease. Such a desired outcome necessitates the establishment of fellowships which encompass a range of clinical and research interests extending from physical, social, psychologic, and physiologic development, through developmental biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology, and psychophysiology, as well as the social and behavioral sciences such as sociology, cultural anthropology, and psychology, among others. It is intended that such training programs will institutionalize child development as a basic science for pediatrics. Finally, it would be inappropriate to discuss this emerging era of prevention without commenting on the social responsibilities of pediatricians. Our very considerable success in reducing morbidity and mortality from many diseases permits us to address new problems. Precisely because of our past successes, society looks to us for new answers. Many of our current challenges are in large measure social problems. For example, there is good reason to believe that further reduction in infant mortality will depend upon improvements in the living conditions of people in poverty rather than on better medical care alone. We have been slow to catch up with the rapid changes in our society. While continuing to conduct research to provide better data for planning, pediatricians can serve as advocates for wider application of the considerable knowledge we already have.

Abstract: We doubt that theory of mind can be sufficiently demonstrated without reliance on verbal tests. Where language is the major tool of social manipulation, an effective theory of mind must use language as an input. We suspect, therefore, that in this context, prelinguistic human and nonhuman minds are more alike than are human pre- and postlinguistic minds.

Abstract: Which tells us more about children, behavioral science or the general literature? Actually, neither gave us much information until the last two centuries. Only since Rousseau's contributions in literature and Darwin's in science have accurate descriptions been offered. Now one can find presentations on the impact of physical characteristics and disabilities, family interactions, other social influences, and temperamental predispositions in both literature and science. The difference in treatment is that science describes in abstractions the general principles of human nature, while literature synthesizes vivid, coherent illustrations of whole, believable persons in all their complexities. Literature, moreover, has ventured into some areas that science has not. The complete pediatrician needs both sources of information for a well-rounded knowledge of children and their development.

Abstract: A concern for cultural specificity, the staple of traditional anthropological research, survives the transition to domain-specific accounts of cognitive structuring such as Atran's, and is arguably better off for having made the transition. The identification of domain-specific processes provide us with criteria for sorting cultural differences and integrating cultural concerns within cognitive science.

Abstract: The teaching of behavioral science is an integral part of the education of family physicians. This paper presents a model of a program that integrates the teaching of behavioral science with residents' daily activities in their clinical placement. It outlines the format of the program, the curriculum, teaching methodologies, evaluation and funding. The authors stress the importance of collaboration between family physician and psychiatrist in planning and implementing the program.

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