Adverse experiences during childhood can have long-lasting impacts on physical and
mental health. At the heart of most theories of how these effects are transduced into health …

Psychoendocrine research on stress in healthy children and adolescents is entering its fifth
decade. Forty some years ago, the questions we were asking about the role of stress …

Children raised in neighborhoods with low socioeconomic status (SES) are at risk for low
academic achievement. Identifying factors that help children from disadvantaged …

Objective Saliva can be used for screening and diagnostic purposes. Although multiple
saliva collection methods are available, their use in children can be limited due to lack of …

Background The area of social skills is broad, in theory and in practice. For social skills
training, various clinical practices have been applied in group sessions, as have …

Prosocial behaviour can be defined as any voluntary action that is performed to benefit
another individual. Despite accumulating evidence of the importance of environmental …

While converging evidence suggests that both environmental and genetic factors underlie
variations in diurnal cortisol, the extent to which these sources of influence vary according to …

The effectiveness of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) programs on child outcomes has
been firmly established through student self-reporting, teacher and caregiver …

A large research-based consensus was achieved over the past 30 years concerning the
importance of prenatal and early childhood development: Preventive interventions are …

Health promotion research is largely influenced by the biomedical model, which is poorly
adapted to the study of complex interventions. According to Chen, this approach “reduces …