The Wiley Handbook of Early Childhood Development Programs, Practices, and Policies

Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal, PhD, is Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychology. Her main areas of research are poverty, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic disadvantage, urbanicity, early childhood education, and immigrant children. Eric Dearing, PhD, is a Professor with the Boston College Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology. His main areas of interest/expertise are the roles of family, early child care, school, and community for promoting cognitive, language, and social-emotional development of economically and socially disadvantaged children. 

Notes on Contributors viii

Foreword xx

Preface xxv

Part I The State of Young Children in the United States 1

1 The State of Young Children in the United States: School Readiness 3
Terri J. Sabol and Robert C. Pianta

2 The State of Young Children in the United States: A Developmental Psychopathology Perspective on the Mental Health of Preschool Children 18
Susan B. Campbell

3 Early Childhood Health Disparities, Biological Embedding, and Life]Course Health 35
Daniel Berry

4 Social and Contextual Risks 66
Robert H. Bradley

Part II Theoretical and Empirical Contexts of Applied Developmental Science of Early Childhood 97

5 From the Lab to the Contexts in which Children Live and Grow: Historical Perspectives on the Field 99
Pamela A. Morris and Maia C. Connors

6 What Does it Mean to be Evidence]based? 118
Margaret R. Burchinal and Nina E. Forestieri

7 Neural Development in Context: Differences in Neural Structure and Function Associated with Adverse Childhood Experiences 135
Emily C. Merz and Kimberly G. Noble

Part III Early Childhood Education and Care 161

8 Publicly Supported Early Care and Education Programs 163
W. Steven Barnett, Elizabeth Votruba]Drzal, Eric Dearing, and Megan E. Carolan

9 Early Childhood Education and Care for Dual Language Learners 187
Lianna Pizzo and Mariela Páez

10 Early Childhood Education and Care for Children with Disabilities 211
Penny Hauser]Cram, Miriam Heyman, and Kristen Bottema]Beutel

11 Classroom based Early Childhood Interventions 237
Stephanie Jones, Dana Charles McCoy and Lauren Hay

12 Child Care and Child Development in the United States: Where Have We Come From, What Do We Know Now, and Where Are We Going? 261
Anna D. Johnson

Part IV Parenting, Family, and Dual]generation Programs 287

13 Family School Partnerships in Early Childhood 289
Susan M. Sheridan, Amanda L. Moen, and Lisa L. Knoche

14 Parenting and Home Visiting Interventions 310
Nancy Donelan]McCall

15 The Two Generation Approach to Building Human Capital: Past, Present, and Future 330
Margo Gardner, Jeanne Brooks]Gunn, and P. Lindsay Chase]Lansdale

Part V Public Policy and Young Children 363

16 Immigration Policy and Early Childhood Development 365
Soojin Oh Park and Hirokazu Yoshikawa

17 Marriage Policy and Early Childhood Development 385
Rebekah Levine Coley

18 Child Welfare Policy 403
Kristen S. Slack and June Paul

19 Effects of United States Income and Work Supports Policies on Children in Low]Income Families 424
Aletha C. Huston

20 The Role of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Promoting Early Childhood Development in the United States 447
Sharon Wolf, Juliette Berg, Pamela A. Morris, and J. Lawrence Aber

21 Work Family Policies 469
Anna Gassman]Pines and Rachel Goldstein

Index 48