Most Recent Articles from Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence

• Discipline 

  Discipline used as a noun means orderly, controlled behavior. The verb "to discipline" means different things to different people. Most...

  04/06/01 by Dianne K. Daeg de Mott · More from publication

• Dissociative Identity Disorder/Multiple Personality Disorder 

  Persons with dissociative identity disorder (DID) adopt one or more distinct identities. Each identity or personality is distinct from the...

  04/06/01 · More from publication

• Divergent Thinking 

  The concept of divergent thinking was developed in the 1950s by psychologist J. P. Guilford, who saw it as a major component of creativity and...

  04/06/01 · More from publication

• Divorce 

  The unprecedented rise in the U.S. divorce rate over the past 30 years has had significant consequences for the nation's children, over a...

  04/06/01 · More from publication

• Down Syndrome 

  Down syndrome occurs with equal frequency in people of different nationalities, social backgrounds, and economic classes, averaging 1 in about...

  04/06/01 · More from publication

• Draw-A-Person Test 

  Based on children's drawings of human figures, this test can be used with two different scoring systems for different purposes. One measures...

  04/06/01 · More from publication

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