Research on coping during childhood and adolescence is distinguished by its focus on how
children deal with actual stressors in real-life contexts. Despite burgeoning literatures within …

Chronic, severe irritability is common in childhood and is very impairing. Furthermore,
childhood irritability predicts suicidality, social impairment, and depressive and anxiety …

The psychological construct of empathy refers to an intersubjective induction process by
which positive and negative emotions are shared, without losing sight of whose feelings …

Preventive interventions focus on reducing risk and promoting protective factors in the child
as well as their cultural ecologies (family, classroom, school, peer groups, neighborhood …

Pre-adolescence is a key developmental period in which complex intrinsic volitional
methods of self-regulation are acquired as a result of rapid maturation within the brain …

Because youth with aggressive conduct disorder (CD) often inflict pain on others, it is
important to determine if they exhibit atypical empathic responses to viewing others in pain …

Youth in foster care with maltreatment experiences often demonstrate higher rates of mental
and behavioral health problems compared to youth in the general population as well as …

Several dimensions of family functioning are recognized as formative influences on
children's emotion regulation. Historically, they have been studied separately, limiting our …

To speak of cognitive regulation versus emotion regulation may be misleading. However,
some forms of regulation are carried out by executive processes, subject to voluntary control …

It is clear that the steroid hormone testosterone plays an important role in the regulation of
social emotional behavior, but it remains unknown which neural circuits mediate these …