- poverty and cognitive development,
- school readiness of preschool children,
- peer relations and socioemotional development,
- psychopathology and psychiatric diagnosis,
- reading comprehension and related interventions, and
- the development of creativity.
This is the 152nd volume in this Jossey-Bass series New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. Its mission is to provide scientific and scholarly presentations on cutting edge issues and concepts in this subject area. Each volume focuses on a specific new direction or research topic and is edited by experts from that field.