How can parents get their child ready to read? What are the best ways to deal with the every day stress of parenting? How is a child toilet trained? Is violence on television really unhealthy? Why are adolescents vulnerable to sleep disorders? Which initiatives show promise in reducing crime and violence among young people and within schools?
These and other questions are answered in a variety of publications produced by the University of Pittsburgh Office of Child Development to promote a fuller understanding of children and issues that arise within families every day.
Just click on the links below for a complete list of the topics covered by each publication that are available online to view and download at no cost.
- Children, Youth, and Family Backgrounders - A series of reports summarizing what research tells us about a wide range of topics, such as brain development, school transition, sleep disorders, school-based crime prevention, and adolescent suicide.
- Parenting Columns - A series of brief columns on a host of child, family, and parenting issues made available to newspapers and magazines for publication.
- Parenting Guides - A series of parenting guides offering clear, concise information and advice on 50 topics ranging from children's nightmares and how to toilet train to discussing death with your child and coping with the every day stress of parenting.
- Foster Parenting Guides - A series of parenting guides written for foster parents offering clear, concise information and advice on 20 topics ranging from attachment and handling changes in behavior following visits with birth parents to repetitive behavior and stranger anxiety.
