The Psychological development and welfare of children of opiate and cocaine users: Review and research needs
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Parental dependence on illicit drugs has medical, political, social and psychological implications. Current research on the social environments provided to children of drug users is examined and the way in which future research can be improved is discussed. The limited amount of current empirical evidence available indicates that drug users could be at risk for a range of problems. Researchers need to consider both social-contextual and individual influences in the issues of parenting, child development and child care, and drug use, so that research questions can be identified and testable hypotheses can be put forward.
Publication Name: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-9630
Year: 1998
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From categorization to classification: a comparison among individuals with autism, mental retardation, and normal development
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Children with autism have a cognitive deficit in tasks involving class inclusion and free-sorting of representational objects. On two-dimensional matrix tasks, autistic and mentally retarded children did not perform as well as normal children. No differences were found among the three groups in free-sorting of geometric shapes. The autistic children did better than the mentally retarded children on matrix tasks involving perceptual attributes, suggesting unimpaired visual perceptual capacities for the autistic children. The autistic children appear to have deficits related to internal manipulation of information.
Publication Name: Journal of Abnormal Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-843X
Year: 1995
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The development of ordinal numerical competence in young children
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This article examines ordinal and verbal numerical knowledge in children aged 2 and 3 years old. The authors, conducting two experiments, conclude that children who lacked verbal numerical knowledge could not make ordinal judgements.
Publication Name: Cognitive Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0010-0285
Year: 2001
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