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Theses from 2024 2024

The Time Machine to Neverland: A Multiple-Case Study Exploration of the Impact of the Covid-19 Lockdown on Childhood and Development , Elyse Laakso

A Youth Court's Intentional and Unintentional Impact on Justice-Involved Youth and Student Volunteers: Who Truly Benefits? , Julia Rietsch

Theses from 2023 2023

The Bonds of Play: A Case Study of Attachments in a Parent-Toddler Play Group for Latin American Immigrant Families in New York City , Adriana Bass

Chronically Ill Children and Child Life Specialists: An Investigation Into How Play Acts as a Form of Healing , Kortni Baughman

Play Therapy with Neuro-Diverse Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: A Multiple-Case Study , Caroline Gillespie

Early Childhood Care: A Comparative Analysis of Preferred Practices , Shaija A. Mills

“Where's Daddy? Where's Daddy?”: Exploring the Experience of a Male Social Worker of Color in Dyadic Play Therapy with Mothers and Young Children , Alfonso Navarrete-Mojica

Emotion Regulation: Preschool Children During Outdoor Play , Mandira Tiwari

Theses from 2022 2022

Transcending Mormonism: Trans and Gender Nonconforming Experiences in the LDS Church , Keith Burns

Preschool and the Pandemic: Perspectives on Remote Schooling From Parents and Teachers , Annie Mudick

Theses from 2021 2021

Supporting Low Income Parents in the Early Years: Group and Dyadic Intervention Programs for Mothers and Babies , Eve Atkins

Sensory Processing Disorder and Solutions: An Overview of How to Help Children Living with SPD , Ivory C. Butler

The Impact of COVID-19 on Young Children's Education - Exploring the Compatibility of Combining Progressive Education with Online Learning , Yini Li

Reflections on Working via Telehealth with Bilingual Families Experiencing Trauma During the COVID-19 Pandemic , Kristen Yates

Theses from 2020 2020

Mental Health Work With Youth Leaving Foster Care: Strengthening Resilience , Lily Avnet

Minecraft's Sandbox: Play in a Virtual World of Creative Exploration , Callum Bayle-Spence

Cultivating Curiosity and Collaboration: Mentalizing as a Modality of Intervention in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder , Danielle M. Bryson

Models And Metaphors Of Play Therapy: The Role Of The Child Therapist , Agathe David-Weill

The Value Of Play in Infant and Child Psychotherapy in a Group Attachment-Based Intervention (GABI) , Joana Hötte Fittipaldi

"He Knows Who He's Messing With": Hostile/Helpless Representations on the Parent Development Interview , Anna Kilbride

The Criminal Justice System's Problematic Response To The Commercial Sexual Exploitation Of Children , Alexandra Levitskaya

Not "Bad Boys": Psychosocial Implications Of Aggression In Boys With PTSD , Anjette Rostock

Pediatric Hospital Social Work , Sasha Silber

Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Clinical Tool For Intervention with Families and for Exploring Intergenerational Impacts , Molly Silverman

Anger Suppression in Late Childhood , Dana Williams

Early Interventions and Special Education Services for Children with Autism , Misha Wooden

Theses from 2019 2019

Selective Mutism: What it is and Approaches to Intervention , Agatha Barnowski

Empathy at Work in a Social Service Agency: Individual Experiences and Systems Theory , Marjorie H. Blann

A Model for a Progressive Preschool Approach in Ghana , Ruth Djarbeng

Lived Experiences of Young Adults who had a Sibling with Cancer in Childhood , Brittany Lawton

Being Together: Reflections on the Development of Empathy and Prosocial Behavior in Toddler Twins in a Preschool Classroom , Zoe Lefkowitz

Exploring Attachment in the Context of Domestic Violence: A look at two case studies from an attachment-based therapeutic program , Caitlin Plaut

Theses from 2018 2018

Mass Incarceration and Adolescent Development: Connecting Identity and Trauma in Black Adolescent Males , Michelle E. Chen

Theory of Mind and False Belief in Two-Year-Olds: The Smiling Butterfly is Happy , Simone Forsberg

Exploring Race, Culture, and Identity Among Chinese Adoptees: “China Dolls,” “Bananas,” and “Honorary Whites” , Soleil S. Groh

More Than Adversity: Poverty as a Source of Potential Trauma in Children and Adolescents , Coreen Knowles

Theses from 2017 2017

Autism and Language: A Case Study of an Adolescent , Isabel Barata Adler

A Reflection on How Children with Insecure Attachments in Foster Care Experience Trauma , Khadija Bleasdell

How the Foster Care System Impacts Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) , Anna Bratushevskaya

The Circle of Play: A Cross-Cultural-Study of Teachers’ Views of Play Before and After Observing a Community Adventure Play Experience , Andrea Davis

Refugee Children and Resettlement in the United States , Rachel Kerber

Bridging Play and Social Interaction in Young Children with Language Delays , Angela Miller

Pathways to Empowerment: A Social Work Student’s Reflection on Anti-Oppressive Clinical Social Work Practice , Katelyn Necastro

The Impact of Childhood Chronic Illness on Mental Health: A Review of Parent and Child Reports of Stress and Maladaptive Behaviors in a Longitudinal Study , Caroline Raak

Lessons in Bioecological Research Design from Flint, MI: Get to know the participants! , Khushboo Shah

Re-patterning Attachments at School and Beyond: An Exploration of the Healing Power of Relationships and School Community , Sophia Sherman

Theses from 2016 2016

Reflections on Practicing Mindfulness with Adolescents with Mental Health Disorders , Lucia Garcia-Giurgiu

Assessing Latino Caregiver’s Knowledge and Understanding of Medication Management for Children and the Use of Health Technology to Gather Information , Kamal Jennifer Johal

The Effects of Praise and Motivational Interviewing on Fostering Intrinsic Motivation in Youth , Elianna Platt

Pediatric Palliative Care: Reflections upon the Current and Future Field , Rachel Rusch

Growing With Your Toddler: A Relationship-Based Approach to Healthy Child Development , Anna Kriegel Weiss

Theses from 2015 2015

Wanda and Joseph: Language development in the context of family stress and trauma , Isabel Jay

Treating the Whole Child: An Integrated, Flexible Treatment Approach to Children with ASD , Danielle Kuhn

Parents’ Needs After Their Child Receives a Diagnosis of Developmental Disability , Talia Pearl

Shhh…listen to your pebble Mindfulness Education: The Relationship Between Children, Imagination, and Nature , Jeanie Yeo

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Early Childhood Education Theses and Dissertations

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Theses/Dissertations from 2024 2024

An Examination of Early Childhood Leadership in Public Elementary Schools: A Mixed Methods Study , Wesam Alshahrani

The Influence of Teaching Digital Resources of MyPlate on Nutrition Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice (KAP) for Healthy Eating Habits of Children , Afaf Alsofyani

Design and Validation of a Test for Teachers: Measuring Knowledge of Trauma , Jennifer B. Bilbrey

Exploring Early Childhood Teachers’ Experiences in Teaching Multilingual Children in Public Mainstream Schools in Tennessee , Maria Dias

The Perspectives and Experiences of Arabic Mothers About Families’ Home and School Engagement , Fatimah Ahmed Rubayyi

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Perceptions of Primary Caregivers About Managing Their Child’s Transition to Kindergarten: A Mixed-Methods Study , Kristy Lynn Castanon

Building Resilience: A Mixed Methods Exploration of Head Start Teachers Coping During the COVID-19 Pandemic , Ehichoya Edokhamhen

Exploration of Privilege and Preschool Teachers’ Demographics Associated with Teachers’ Self-Efficacy in Culturally Responsive Classroom Management , Katherine Madison

Examining Teachers' Referral and Placement Decisions of Hispanic Children for Gifted and Talented Programs , Guillermo I. Mendoza

Childhood Trauma in Early Care and Education: Understanding School Administrators’ Perceptions , Olawale Olubowale

Sound and Music Opportunities in Toddler Learning Environments , Sonia Akiko Yoshizawa

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

An Investigation of the Relationship Between Teachers’ Personal Epistemologies and Their Self-Efficacy About Culturally Responsive Classroom Management , Tahani Ahmed

Early Detection of Atypical Motor and Neurobehavior of Infants at Risk Secondary to Opioid Exposure: A Prospective Study , Kara Boynewicz

The Impact of an Integrated STEM Collaborative Approach on Preservice Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge and Curricular Role Identity for Teaching Science , Qiuju Tian

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Student Collaboration: Early Childhood Teachers' Roles and Perspectives , Kimberly Ballantyne

The Impact of Natural Playscapes on Toddler Play , Laura J. Pearce

Familial Regulation of Young Children's TV Viewing in Ghana , Clara Puni-Nyamesem

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Determining if Classroom Pets as part of an Empathy-Based Intervention Affect Public Elementary School Students’ Empathy , Randa Dunlap

The Relationship Between the Amount of Time Spent in the Block Center and Gender Differences in Preschool Children’s Spatial Performance , Narges Sareh

Head Start Preschool Teachers’ Perceptions of Reggio Emilia Principles Practiced Within Their Own Setting: A Case Study , Tara Terry Voit

A Study of Empathy and Teacher Self-Efficacy Among Preservice Early Childhood Educators , Amy Wilson

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Arab-American Parents’ Views on the Use of Technology, Smartphones, and Touchscreen Devices with Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers , Abidah Abutaleb

Seeing the World Differently. An Exploration of a Professional Development Model Bridging Science and Lay Cultures , Michael D. Garrett

Second-Grade Students’ Perceptions of Their Classrooms’ Physical Learning Environment , Tsitsi Nyabando

A Mixed Methods Exploration of East Tennessee Early Childhood Teachers’ Perceptions, Knowledge, Practices, and Resources of Critical Literacy , Rebekah Taylor

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

The State of Outdoor Education in Northeast Tennessee: Preschool Teacher Attitudes Toward Outdoor Education , Cathy Landy

Teachers and Their Perceptions About Adaptive Skill Training Within an Early Childhood Comprehensive Development Classroom for Students with Intellectual Disabilities , Jennifer R. Lynberg

Preschool Teachers' Perceptions of Children Prenatally Exposed to Drugs , Brandie D. Maness

Gender Differences in Spatial Language During Preschool Small Group Geometry Activities , Winona Shue

Teachers’ Response to Infants’ Nonverbal Communication and Use of Response to Facilitate a Dialogue , Stephanie Stephens

The Effects of an Observation and Interpretation Intervention (COI/PALS) on Teachers’ Productive and Nonproductive Conversations with Preschool Children , Gina Joe Wohlford

Examining Contributors to Preschoolers’ Classroom Engagement using Structural Equation Modeling , Hongxia Zhao

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Parental Perceptions of Preschool-Age Children’s Literacy Development in a Rural Appalachian Community , Kimberly Austin

Levels of Feedback Observed in Kindergarten Classrooms: Perceptions and Reality , Jacqueline Johnson

Design and Validation of a Scale for Preschoolers: Measuring Nutrition Knowledge, Beliefs, and Behaviors , Michelle E. Johnson

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

The Effects of Environmental Modifications and Visual Supports in the Home on Engagement and Challenging Behaviors in Children with Autism , Teresa L. Boggs

Teachers’ Perceptions of Intensive Professional Development on the Daily Five™ in Literacy Instruction: A Multiple Case Study Exploration , Lori A. Hamilton

Exploring Gesturing as a Natural Approach to Impact Stages of Second Language Development: A Multiple Baseline, Single Case Study of a Head Start Child , Guillermo I. Mendoza

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Determining if Custodial Grandparents of Pre-K - Third Grade Students Perceive Delivery of Information and Services Offered as Effective in Decreasing Early Chronic Absence , Kimberly S. Cassidy

Use of the Physical Classroom Environment as a Teaching and Learning Tool Including the Impact of the CCSSI in Kindergarten Through Third Grade Classrooms in Northeast Tennessee , Charity Hensley-Pipkin

Professional Learning Communities as a Professional Development Model Focusing on Instructional Practices Used to Teach Writing in Early Childhood , Jill T. Leonard

The Relationship Between an Affective Instructional Design, Children’s Attitudes Toward Mathematics, and Math Learning for Kindergarten-Age Children , Wendee B. White Mrs

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

An Exploratory Critical Study of Questioning Strategies Posed by Early Childhood Teachers During Literacy Blocks , Angela H. Baker Ms.

Developing Mastery in Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, and Morphemic Awareness: A Multiple Case Study of Preservice Early Childhood Educators , Ruth Facun-Granadozo

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

The Influences of Caregiver-Child Interactions and Temperament on Cortisol Concentrations of Toddlers in Full-Day Childcare , Helen Morris Lane

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

Project 3rd Grade Environment: Descriptive Phenomenological Study of the Physical and Learning Environment in a Transformed 3rd Grade Classroom. , Charity Gail Hensley

Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008

Inquire Within: The Connection between Teacher Training in Inquiry Learning Methodology and Classroom Practice. , Ariel Sky Ashe

Relationships between Primary Teacher Beliefs and Practice in the Primary Classrooms of a Small Urban School in East Tennessee. , Lindsay Collins Moore

Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007

The Effects of Movement on Literacy. , Kathy S. Luppe

Theses/Dissertations from 2006 2006

Perceived Teacher Self-Efficacy in Early Childhood Settings: Differences between Early Childhood and Elementary Education Candidates. , Bradley Carroll Billheimer

Theses/Dissertations from 2004 2004

The Use of Rotation Model Sunday School. , Heather Renee Jones

The Relationship between the Use of Developmentally Appropriate Practice and the Inclusion of Product-Producing Art Activities in Infant Programs. , April D. Moore

Theses/Dissertations from 2003 2003

The Curricular Practices of Early Childhood Teachers Working in Public Sschool Primary Grades. , Elizabeth Ely Brading

Journaling as a Tool to Improve Story Comprehension for Kindergarten Students. , Carisa L. Carr

The Effects of Adult Interaction on Toddler Behavior in the Classroom. , Sarah Webb Hackney

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The purpose of this quantitative, non-experimental study was to examine the effects of attending a half-day 4K Child Development Program and school readiness scores as measured by the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA) at a public elementary school. The following research questions guided this study: (1) What is the difference between the Kindergarten Readiness Assessment (KRA) scores of kindergarten students who attended the 4K Child Development Program before starting kindergarten and students who did not attend the 4K Child Development Program? (2) What is the difference between the KRA scores for school readiness on the following domains: Social Foundations, Language and Literacy, Mathematics, and Physical Development and Well-Being for students who participated in the 4K Child Development Program and students who did not participate in the 4K Child Development Program? The researcher conducted a secondary analysis of archival data from the KRA for the following school years: 2017–2018, 2018–2019, and 2019–2020. Since archived data were used for this study, no active participants were involved in this study. This study took place at one elementary school in South Carolina, and data were provided to the researcher from the schools’ secure database. Data analysis consisted of descriptive statistics and conducting two-sample t-tests. Results of the study indicated that 4K Child Development Program participants’ scores were significantly higher on the domains of Mathematics (2017–2020, n = 120) and Language and Literacy (2018–2019, n = 40).

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Parent Aggression and Youth Externalizing and Internalizing Behaviors: Stability and Mutual Influence , Ann L. Sheedy

Socio-Cultural Influences on Adolescent Smoking in Mainland China: The Mediating Role of Smoking-Related Cognitions , Yan Wang

Models of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior , Jodi Canfield

Child Care Center Directors' Perceptions of Continuity of Care: A Qualitative Investigation , Desalyn De-Souza

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Amy Hawn Nelson

4 Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy (AISP), University of Pennsylvania, 3701 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Mark Needle

Matthew f. katz, jhonelle bailey, justin t. lane, emily berkowitz, sharon zanti, astrid pena, maggie reeves.

5 Georgia Policy Labs, Georgia State University, 14 Marietta Street NW, 5th Floor, Atlanta, GA 30303

The COVID-19 pandemic made its mark on the entire world, upending economies, shifting work and education, and exposing deeply rooted inequities. A particularly vulnerable, yet less studied population includes our youngest children, ages zero to five, whose proximal and distal contexts have been exponentially affected with unknown impacts on health, education, and social-emotional well-being. Integrated administrative data systems could be important tools for understanding these impacts. This article has three aims to guide research on the impacts of COVID-19 for this critical population using integrated data systems (IDS). First, it presents a conceptual data model informed by developmental-ecological theory and epidemiological frameworks to study young children. This data model presents five developmental resilience pathways (i.e. early learning, safe and nurturing families, health, housing, and financial/employment) that include direct and indirect influencers related to COVID-19 impacts and the contexts and community supports that can affect outcomes. Second, the article outlines administrative datasets with relevant indicators that are commonly collected, could be integrated at the individual level, and include relevant linkages between children and families to facilitate research using the conceptual data model. Third, this paper provides specific considerations for research using the conceptual data model that acknowledge the highly-localised political response to COVID-19 in the US. It concludes with a call to action for the population data science community to use and expand IDS capacities to better understand the intermediate and long-term impacts of this pandemic on young children.

Introduction

The COVID-19 pandemic made its mark on the entire world, upending economies, shifting work and education, and exposing deeply rooted inequities. This is particularly apparent within the United States, where the hyper-localised response system and wavering federal recommendations have had dire consequences. As of July 2021, there are more than 190.5 million global confirmed cases and 4.1 million global deaths, with the US reporting over 34 million of these cases and over 609,000 COVID-related deaths [ 1 ]. Exacerbating the impact is a resulting economic crisis driven by a record 46 straight weeks of first-time unemployment claims topping one million per week [ 2 ]. The fragmented government response to the COVID-19 pandemic has also highlighted deeply rooted economic, health, social, and racial inequity ingrained in the fabric of American society [ 3 ]. Data indicate a disproportionate number of COVID-19 cases and deaths among low-income populations and multi-generational households, with documented higher impacts on BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour) Americans [ 4 , 5 ].

Research on the impacts of COVID-19 is emerging quickly, including focus on secondary and postsecondary students, older adults, and the workforce (e.g. industry effects [ 6 ] impact of virtual schooling format on K-12 learning [ 7 , 8 ], impact on medical training [ 9 ], social isolation of older adults [ 10 ], and mental well-being of college students [ 11 ]). However, there has been little attention to date on the impacts experienced by one of the world’s most vulnerable populations: young children. Science consistently underscores the time from prenatal to age 5 as a critical developmental period for brain architecture [ 12 ]. Foundational capacities that shape children’s future trajectories across all developmental domains are built during this time. In addition to the direct impacts on young children’s health and social development, COVID-related illness, hospitalisations, workforce disconnection or disruption, and mental health needs also directly affect the adults who are the most proximal influence on young children. The potential negative impacts of adult health and economic stressors on parenting and caregiver capacities to meet children’s basic needs cannot be understated. Perhaps one reason these associations have been largely unstudied is due to lack of available data on population-based indices of child well-being that also include data about adult impacts as possible mediating influences.

Administrative data collected by public and private service agencies at the individual child and adult level that are integrated across systems hold potential for addressing these gaps [ 13 ]. Use of integrated data systems (IDS) [ 14 ] to inform policy and practice has become a stated priority at every level of government in the United States, and is a priority recommendation of the National Academy of Sciences to better align science, policy, and practice to advance health equity for young children [ 15 – 19 ]. Unfortunately, the field currently lacks a comprehensive framework to inform such research that is guided by developmental science and aligned with public systems- the absence of which is particularly troubling during the current crisis.

The purpose of this paper is to address these gaps by providing a comprehensive framework to study the impacts of COVID-19 on young children that not only outlines relevant research priorities but also provides a roadmap for using IDS to conduct comprehensive research. This paper has three specific aims. First, it outlines a conceptual data model of developmental resilience pathways that articulates how child development from birth to age five is influenced by individual, family, and community factors. These pathways are informed by developmental theory and prior research on the impacts of public health crises on child development, and emphasise “resilience” as adaptive developmental outcomes in the face of adverse stressors and risks that are mediated by adult and community supports. Second, it outlines administrative data sets with relevant indicators commonly collected by IDS and could be integrated at the individual level for use within the conceptual data model. Importantly, this aim calls attention to the importance of IDS that link parent-child data to provide capacity for studying multigenerational impacts. Lastly, this paper provides considerations for research using the conceptual data model that acknowledge the highly-localised political response to COVID-19 in the US. It emphasises the strengths of an IDS approach for child development research and the opportunity to advance the field of population data science through multi-site investigations of COVID-19 impacts on young children using a common conceptual data model.

Conceptual data model

Our first aim was to articulate a conceptual data model ( Figure 1 ) that underscores important child developmental pathways to resilience, relevant resilience influencers within these pathways (i.e. direct and indirect factors that may serve as risk or protective factors), and pandemic impacts that bi-directionally interact with child development to either enhance or impede child outcomes. In this model, resilience refers to the phenomenon that many children achieve positive developmental and educational outcomes despite experiencing stressful, high-risk, and adverse circumstances. Early adversity includes experiencing risk factors such as child abuse or neglect, homelessness, poverty, or even premature birth that are associated with serious social, emotional, health, or school-related problems. In this model we refer specifically to stressors associated with the pandemic (e.g. job loss, family death or illness, social isolation) that may further hinder developmental trajectories. Developmental research also provides evidence for the positive influence of protective factors, which we call “resilience influencers” in our model, which promote adaptive functioning for children in the face of adversity. Integral to this model is the understanding that underlying inequities in communities and families are nested within these bidirectional influences and so exacerbate pandemic impacts (see the middle ring of Figure 1 ). This model was informed by developmental-ecological theory and research evidence emphasising that the comprehensive study of child development must be cross-sectoral, longitudinal, and population-based, while simultaneously considering the bidirectional, cumulative, and interactive effects among multiple risk and protective experiences over time [ 20 , 21 ].

Conceptual data model of developmental resilience pathways [ 22 ]

This model, which is informed by developmental research, recognises that child competencies (e.g. academic, social-emotional, physical health, well-being) develop bi-directionally over time as children are supported by resources and assets present within proximal and distal contexts. This model aligns with the recent Consensus Study Report from the National Academy of Sciences summarising the importance of early brain development, the cumulative impacts of trauma, and the intractable inequities that render many children substantially more at risk for developmental challenges that are exacerbated by public health crises such as the pandemic [ 23 ]. The nested contexts within this model also reflect Bronfenbrenner’s bio-ecological theory suggesting young children are differentially influenced by experiences within contexts most proximal, such as relationships and interactions with primary caregivers in the home, community, and school environments [ 24 ]. In these contexts, children are influenced directly by relationships with primary caregivers, as well as by access to resources provided by caregivers that affect development (e.g. safe and nurturing families, high quality early learning centers, health care, and economic and housing stability). Contextual influences are both nested and cumulative, whereby impacts are compounded over time and with repeated exposure (particularly in the case of trauma and stress).

Informed by Bronfenbrenner’s theory and the Measures of Success Framework, developed collaboratively by the North Carolina Data Action Team and domain experts from child-serving agencies and universities (2016), the current conceptual data model differentiates five relevant contexts where resilience is most often facilitated (or hindered) for young children [ 25 ]. These five pathways are: learning (e.g. cognitively stimulating care environments, preschool), family (e.g. home environments and caregiver well-being), health (e.g. availability and access to food, supports for mental health and ACES), housing (e.g. stability and safety), and financial (e.g. economic stability, employment). Since 2016, the role of financial well-being and its connection to social mobility and outcomes has become more pronounced in the literature as administrative data sources are more available. The influence of these pathways is bidirectional (arrows go both ways in the model), where the extent to which risks or resources in early contexts influence children depends on children’s own internal developmental capacities, risks, and resources [ 26 ]. Also important from a developmental systems perspective is acknowledging that these pathways necessarily intersect – stressors or supports in one pathway will also affect trajectories and outcomes in other pathways [ 27 ].

As an illustration, in the health pathway there are direct, indirect, and contextual influences that are related to important child outcomes. Direct influences include child illness due to infection or decreased access to health care, or changes in access to quality learning programmes (positive or negative). Potential mediating influences, referred to in Figure 1 as resilience influencers, reflect indirect pathways to child health that could include stressors experienced by families (e.g. caregiver mental health or social isolation). Within and across all pathways, there are both direct and indirect influences on child development. Prior research suggests, for example, that consistent maternal employment when children are young is related to lower levels of child externalising behavior and higher language and literacy skills in elementary school compared to families where employment is sporadic or varied during the early years [ 28 ]. Pandemic-related stressors can lead to loss of employment that reduces family income and stability and influences children’s access to needed resources like food and healthcare, and stable support systems within the family, jeopardising children’s healthy development.

Macro-level contexts (reflected in the outer ring of Figure 1 ) include broader systems impacts such as local and federal policies, regulations, and practices that may affect the financial/material and social/cultural capital resources available within the proximal contexts of family, community, and school. As the US response to this pandemic has highlighted, systemic inequities (middle ring of Figure 1 ) in resource access along the five developmental pathways existed prior to the pandemic and are exacerbated during crisis as the nested contexts interact with compounding effects on young children and their families [ 29 ]. Historical structures (e.g. federal and local housing policy, racial segregation) have concentrated poverty in low-income communities and communities of colour that for generations lack access to resources that support positive child development and mobility. This conceptual data model acknowledges that these historical policy contexts must be considered to fully assess and understand present risk, vulnerability, and resilience in order to empower BIPOC and communities of colour and close opportunity gaps rather than deepen disparities.

Finally, a key aspect of the conceptual model is the importance of incorporating a population-based approach. Epidemiology incorporates a population-based approach to study the distribution and determinants of health (more broadly defined in this case, to include multidimensional child development outcomes). Most often used in disease surveillance to understand which hazards are most relevant for population-level interventions, the approach is well suited to capture relevant events, characteristics, and environmental changes. Importantly, it requires an understanding of how political, social, and scientific factors intersect to exacerbate risk. It relies on data collected from relevant public health sentinels (i.e. front-line workers who have direct contact with populations of interest) across time to model trends, predictors, and outcomes. In a multidimensional framework involving multiple systemic influences, an epidemiological approach requires the integration of multiple sentinel systems to generate information at relevant intersections.

Relevant indicators collected by IDS

Using this conceptual model to address state or local needs requires an alignment of resilience pathways with access to cross-agency linked child- and adult-level data. IDS are designed for this purpose. IDS routinely integrate administrative records collected by public and nonprofit agencies for programme monitoring and fiscal reimbursement and repurpose it for analytics, research, and evaluation. IDS have several key ingredients: (1) they include cross-sectoral records of multiple public agencies that may include health and human service systems, education, public housing, and economic development (among others), providing potential access to a comprehensive set of child and family well-being indicators; (2) they can be longitudinal and population-based, facilitating the study of prevalence and patterns of needs, service utilisation, predictors that relate to programme use, and accumulated costs associated with service use; and (3) they potentially have capacity to link children with their caregivers, creating a unique opportunity for intergenerational research and the careful study of mediating and moderating factors associated with developmental outcomes of young children.

A critical element of IDS is that they are developed and operated either within or in partnership with government stakeholders. As such, they include protocols to maximize data “use” (i.e. translation into practice or policy decisions) as a conditional mechanism for data sharing within their data governance. IDS developed in partnership support rapid knowledge-to-practice development cycles, providing insights about how policy or programme changes in one area affect a group’s outcomes in another. They address gaps in resources and provide a basis for improving social policies and creating new services [ 30 – 33 ]. Cyclical programme and policy evaluation using IDS help ensure continuous impact assessment and quality improvement.

While IDS function in a variety of ways, these common elements provide a valuable landscape to facilitate research about the pandemic impacts on young children using the conceptual data model. Over the last decade, a national network of IDS led by Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy (AISP) has been collaborating to understand how successful IDS operate, documenting best practices in their development and use, and facilitating the growth of new IDS to meet increasing local and state demands for more accessible integrated information to inform policy and practice [ 34 , 35 ]. In consultation with experts across this network, which currently covers over 50% of the US population, Table 1 was constructed to summarise commonly used data systems within IDS and relevant indicators for each developmental resilience pathway in the conceptual data model. While this presents a very US-centered approach focusing on US policies and programmes that collect administrative data, it illustrates what is possible from an international perspective whereby systems collect relevant data about children and families they serve and use it to facilitate policy-relevant research. The list in Table 1 is not exhaustive, but it was designed to cover a range of indicators at the child and family level (see Column 1). Column 2 describes the data system where administrative datasets can be found. Column 3 provides an indication of the levels of data collected (i.e. child, adult, both, or household). Column 4 lists examples of common data elements that could be outcome measures (child) or mediating variables (child, adult, or community) within the developmental pathway, including some elements (e.g. share of renters in neighborhood) that can be aggregated by geography to support place-based insights [ 36 ].

Table 1: IDS Capacities to study developmental resilience pathways

Considerations for research using the conceptual data model

The primary motivation for developing this conceptual data model is to encourage and inform collaborative research on the impacts of COVID-19 on young children using IDS. This section provides additional direction on how to use the data model with relevant considerations for developing and conducting research that examines the immediate impacts and, perhaps most likely, the longitudinal outcomes that will evolve for these young children over time as impacts of the pandemic are likely to fundamentally alter early developmental trajectories.

We situate these recommendations within the United States because its compounded form of government (i.e. federalism) grants regional power to states, cities, and counties, thereby creating a hyper-localised COVID-19 response. This response system provides a unique context for research since it generates a natural experiment of varied policy and implementation decisions across state, county and city boundaries. This approach could also be taken across international boundaries – so we use the US as an example to highlight the conceptual data model potential. The US government’s devolved response to the pandemic in 2020 empowered state and local jurisdictions to make unilateral decisions regarding stay-at-home orders, business closures, school closures, and disbursement of resources. As such, state-to-state responses and, in some cases, county-to-county responses varied in length, universality, and enforcement. This resulted in high variability across jurisdictions in cases, death counts, and the timeframe of peak infection rates. A difference-in-difference design study of counties on the border of Iowa and Illinois highlights this variability. Results show the case rate per 10,000 residents was approximately equal across border counties until Illinois implemented a stay-at-home order and Iowa did not, resulting in significantly higher case rates on the Iowa side of the border compared to Illinois [ 37 ].

Early evidence from this hyper-localised response also highlights exacerbation of deep-rooted racial and economic inequities. Analysis suggests these disparate impacts are driven by inequitable access to quality healthcare and health insurance coverage; disproportionate levels of BIPOC working in low wage, “front line” jobs without the opportunity to work from home; overrepresentation among populations of individuals incarcerated in correctional and immigration detention facilities; and the presence of pre-existing social determinants of health related to chronic illness [ 38 ]. This is deeply problematic for families with young children who have been forced to balance child care, schooling, and work, often at the expense of their physical and emotional well-being. The racialised impacts of COVID-19 compound pre-existing developmental vulnerabilities faced by children across domains like healthcare, education, housing, labour and justice (see Alexander (2020), Katznelson (2005), and Rothstein (2017) for examples) [ 39 – 41 ].

Given this context and emerging research, we propose two critical areas that should be included in research design using the conceptual data model. First, research needs to document the hyper-localised response and community-level changes that resulted within the research design . It is important to know when or if stay at home orders were put in place, what they entailed, and how long they lasted. How were school closings and remote support for educators, parents and students implemented? What were the infection, hospitalisation and death rates in the locality? A key component to addressing the community context response also requires centering racial equity in the research design. Within Table 2 (which presents potential research questions and relevant IDS elements that could inform research) we have given some examples that can be aggregated by place/spatial analysis/geography to provide rates per population and contextualise findings to the broader spatial boundaries/community.

Table 2: Possible research questions and ids variables for impact research about young children

Second, a focus on children ages 0-5 necessarily requires including important adult factors that serve as mediators for children’s outcomes . IDS that link children and adults is paramount to this research. By linking children with the adults in their household, biological and non-biological caregivers, and other relevant adults in their proximal systems, this research will have the unique capacity to study mediating and moderating factors of COVID-19 impacts on young children. How did the pandemic impact the systems that surround the child (e.g. home environment, housing stability, community resources)? What impacts on caregivers are likely to translate into reduced capacity for parenting support or the provision of resources known to foster optimal development (e.g. socialisation, cognitive stimulation, opportunities for creative exploration)?

In order to consider these two critical areas, it is also important to identify which individual-level data elements can be aggregated to create a place-based or geographic measures. This spatial approach serves to contextualise findings in a way that is relevant to the specific location. Aggregating data by geography provides useful comparisons across population groups and geographic boundaries and facilitates the study of place-based policy and programme responses. This is especially important given that where a child lives strongly predicts so many child and family outcomes [ 42 ]. For example, researchers could aggregate employment records by neighbourhood to identify the areas with the largest share of essential workers by race and ethnicity and then map their proximity to child care centers in the area.

Across each relevant developmental resilience pathway, there are important child, adult and community factors to consider when conducting research on child impacts. In Table 2 , we outline a set of potential research questions that could be answered with IDS using the conceptual data model. Each question includes an articulation of possible dependent variables (child outcomes) and independent variables (e.g. employment status, policy changes, child care closures), as well as possible family and community context mediators that would be important to include and are also collected by administrative data systems. This table includes a range of possible questions that span the conceptual model pathways, but is by no means exhaustive. Following the table, we elaborate on one question to demonstrate potential methodological approaches and research designs that could be used within the model to foster relevant research.

Using the first question from this table as an example, we now briefly elaborate on how this model and related IDS capacities could be used to answer the question How are changes in enrollment and access in quality early learning programmes affecting family stability and child outcomes? The value of an IDS approach to answer this question is that with administrative data collected longitudinally, the immediate, intermediate, and long-term relationships between quality early learning programme participation (or lack thereof) and relevant child outcomes over time can be studied. Children who were preschool age during the COVID shutdown in Spring of 2020 and forced to move to home schooling or virtual instruction in the middle of the school year could be studied and compared to children of the same age who started their preschool experience virtually – or who were delayed with having a preschool experience because there were no open available spots or because families elected to remain at home. For these children, differential impacts on cognitive, behavioral, or emotional outcomes may be studied over time as these children experience different trajectories into elementary school. Since research suggests many early traumatic experiences may not manifest until later behavioral or cognitive challenges emerge [ 43 ], studying longer-term outcomes such as child mental health, school disconnection or behavioral disruption, slowed or delayed cognitive progression, and academic achievement could be extremely relevant.

An IDS approach at a state (or inter-state) level could reveal important community-level moderators in these relationships. County-level differences in how and when community child care, early learning environments, and public education changes occurred could be quantified. Changes in care facility capacity and adaptations in quality to respond to health and safety concerns could be added. When did centers and home-based care close? For how long? How many did or did not reopen doors? Was access limited to essential workers? What were local stay-at-home orders and how did businesses respond? How flexible was work-from-home policy? Of further value could be a cross-state comparison where multiple IDS partnerships collaborate to understand differences in policy response. Studying commonalities and differences across states could reveal important causal mechanisms that underscore how responses directly and indirectly influence child development outcomes.

Limitations and challenges

When real-time decisions are needed in government, executive leaders will turn to whatever data they have available. This is particularly true in cases of public emergency such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Jurisdictions with developed IDS have an opportunity (and perhaps even an obligation) to fast-track needed improvements in these systems to ensure they are more frequently and fully used to drive decisions and improve outcomes. This paper has provided a conceptual data model for using IDS for COVID-19 impact research on young children. Full actualisation of this conceptual data model, however, also requires acknowledgement of critical challenges in data access, quality and integration.

Administrative data access

First, the COVID-19 pandemic has shifted some practice around administrative data access and raised new issues [ 44 ]. Remote work, for example, revealed limitations of certain privacy and security measures at a time when limited contact is lifesaving. Sites where data could only be accessed using on-site servers saw their work put on pause indefinitely when stay-at-home orders went into effect. Other efforts were stymied by data sharing agreements that did not allow for remote access, or restricted use to only analytics or research, but not for operational use. These legal “roadblocks” limit how information could be accessed and used in real-time, and by whom. Fortunately, there are other models of data sharing that do not include such roadblocks and could be adopted in future work. For example, sites with secure, remote data access policies, procedures, and legal agreements in place have been able to be more flexible and nimble to the changing needs of the pandemic [ 45 ]. As sites work to update and modernise their crisis response capacity, existing agreements may need to be amended to allow operational use of data in times of crisis or emergency.

Data insufficiency and availability

From the framework of this IDS Conceptual Data Model, there may also be areas where available data points are insufficient to capture the full impact, particularly with respect to issues of social isolation and the complexity of family and household responses to community shutdowns. While policymakers and the media have been particularly focused on the health and economic impacts of the virus, less attention (and consequently, less data collection) has been given to the pandemic’s impact on family resilience or less visible factors like mental health (see, for example, Leeb et al. (2020)) [ 46 ]. Furthermore, with systems of support like education, healthcare, recreation, and religious services being provided virtually, many young children are disconnected from the adults they have contact with under normal circumstances. This lack of contact could mean that traditional data collection efforts may have been altered during the pandemic, which would impact our ability to apply epidemiological models of health development to measure outcomes. For example, without children being around regular mandated reporters of child abuse and neglect, aggregate and individual-level data on child welfare reports and substantiated cases may not provide complete information on the incidence of child abuse and neglect [ 47 , 48 ]. Additionally, these contexts may limit the availability of data routinely gathered through annual educational and health assessments because children were participating virtually. Relatedly, some measures, like school attendance, have questionable validity when services are being offered online. It may be that districts or health clinics adapted their data collection processes for virtual services, but careful attention to these changes in administrative data will be required to ensure that research using them is valid.

Data curation and quality

A third major challenge with IDS research is that data curation and quality varies across IDS sites. With the hyper-localised US response context in mind, understanding how different systems define variables and code and clean them for analytic use is critical, especially for multi-site IDS research. Seemingly similar datasets can vary widely across agencies or geographic regions, making consistent measurement and comparison a challenge. Data may differ in the frequency of data collection, years of data available, ages of children represented, quality of data, and/or definitions of data fields. Due to the lack of standardised measurements for the birth to age five population in particular, many early childhood indicators use different data points as proxies for key constructs such as physical, social and emotional health, and kindergarten readiness. As a result, they are typically measured differently across IDS sites.

Cross-sector data linkage between children and caregivers

A final consideration involves the need for IDS that link data between children and their caregivers . In the context of a pandemic where our conceptual model of influence is largely tied to adult caregiver responses and capacities, it is necessary to link a child’s data to that of their parents and other household/family members. Unfortunately, many IDS do not yet have this capacity [ 49 ]. How family structures change over time (e.g. marriage or divorce, children living in different households, birth or adoption of children) must be captured and documented across data systems in order to create a comprehensive linkage of children and their caregivers. The challenge of linking children to their family units is not only technical, but also relational. Strong governance processes and cross-agency relationships are necessary for partners to understand the importance of household matching and generating consistent measures for two-generation analyses. The good news is that there are IDS that have figured this out, and these systems could serve as models for others to advance their capacities [ 50 ]. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the upended social and economic realities it has presented, these challenges present a call to the research community that is already engaged (or poised to engage) in IDS research to share best practices in linking child-adult-family data.

The development and use of IDS for research has great potential to inform solutions to our most pressing social problems. In the wake of the US Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking recommendations (2017), we have seen the role of administrative data reuse expand exponentially [ 51 ]. While this is a good start, it also suggests an ethical obligation to use these data in service of the children and families who have entrusted their care and well-being to the systems poised to respond. In the context of a global pandemic where immediate and long-term impacts are unclear for young children, it is imperative that we utilise these built capacities. The current paper addressed this directly through three primary aims. First, it provided a comprehensive conceptual data model informed by developmental science to advance the field of population data science by generating a common language to study the impacts of COVID-19 on young children using IDS. Second, it illustrated sets of administrative data well poised for pandemic impacts research across the developmental resilience pathways in the model. Last, it outlined research considerations and provided examples of priority questions that could be addressed with cross-sector, longitudinal research using IDS that link children and adults.

We end this discussion with a call to action. IDS are positioned to respond to critical needs through actionable research that informs public health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. This requires building, expanding, and working within two-way partnerships among the scientific and public service communities. These types of partnership are aligned with the National Academy of Sciences’ charge for more cross-sector initiatives that address the root causes of poor health for young children. Using the conceptual data model provided in this paper, comprehensive research about developmental impacts on young children that are mediated by relevant parent and family factors and situated within localised response systems has potential to inform population-level intervention approaches. Given the fact that the prenatal to early childhood period is one of the most sensitive times for children to get on the right path to meet optimal developmental milestones, mitigating the short and long-term impact of COVID-19 is critical [ 52 ]. This paper provides a framework for facilitating such research.

This paper is also a call to the research community connected with population-level IDS capacities to use them, improve them, and maximise the translation of science to action in partnership with our government leaders who need information to inform intervention and prevention approaches. Multi-site research is needed so IDS leaders in different states, municipalities, and across the globe can learn how varied policy or programme responses relate to different developmental trajectories for children. Paramount to this is maintaining sustainable capacities for long-term research so we can understand the implications of response interventions and continue to study the impacts on child development over time. One-shot research studies will not suffice – we have an opportunity (and obligation) for research partnerships to form as governments continue to strategise their pandemic responses. Such partnerships hold potential to address the future needs of a generation of young children living through the COVID-19 pandemic, who will continue to face challenges in their developmental trajectories if the proper, necessary supports are not provided.

Ethics statement

This work was informed by the on-going work of sites that are members of the AISP Network, and their activities are supported by data governance that includes distributed decision-making among a variety of stakeholders, including government agencies, non-governmental non-profit agencies, community-based organizations, and universities.

The IDS Data Landscape research was approved by the University of Pennsylvania IRB, Integrated Data System Landscape Analysis: Models, Motivations, and Capacity for Cross-Agency Data Sharing, # 834988.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate adolescent knowledge of physical, mental, social, and emotional development of babies and young children. The study was concerned with the effects of the following factors on adolescent knowledge of child development; geographic location, family size, ordinal position, and years of homemaking classes in school. Questionnaires were administered to 200 homemaking students in high schools in Parker and Tarrant counties. The only factor significant at the .05 level in affecting.adolescent knowledge was geographic location. Students from rural high schools obtained higher overall child development knowledge scores than students from urban high schools. Further research to compare the knowledge of students not enrolled in homemaking classes to the knowledge of students enrolled in homemaking classes is recommended.

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Celebrating a Decade of Dissertation Research in Global Child Development: Patrice L. Engle Dissertation Grant

The Patrice Engle Dissertation Grant began in 2013 and final awardees were announced in September 2023. SRCD thanks Dr. Maureen Black for her commitment in leading this Grant for the last decade. 

The Engle Grant began in 2013 and provided support to 45 junior scholars interested in a career in global early child development who were from or doing research in low- or middle-income countries. Each awardee received $5,000 USD to support dissertation research and a 2-year student membership to SRCD. The final Engle Awardees were selected in August 2023.

Dr. Maureen Black, professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Distinguished Fellow at RTI International, directed the grant process over the last decade. Each year, she collected applications and led a review committee to select a diverse group of awardees engaged in research across the globe. These scholars’ projects have been conducted in countries such as Cameroon, China, Columbia, Ethiopia, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Kurdistan, Mongolia, Nigeria, Saudi-Arabia, and Turkey, embodying the Grant’s far-reaching impact. We thank Dr. Black for her leadership.

Dr. Maureen Black reflects on this process:

The Engle grant was funded through the generosity of several foundations and Pat’s family and friends. The final grants were awarded in 2023. In the coming year, we will interview the Engle Scholars and ask about their current activities, views of the field, and outlook for future training and activities in global childhood development. We will distribute our findings through SRCD.” 

SRCD is a multidisciplinary, not-for-profit, professional association with a membership of approximately 4,400 researchers, practitioners, and human development professionals from over 50 countries. SRCD promotes multidisciplinary research in human development, fosters the exchange of information among scientists and other professionals, and encourages applications of research findings. Administration of the Patrice L. Engle Dissertation Grant in Global Early Child Development was consistent with SRCD’s strategic plan to promote global child development and to support junior scholars. SRCD supported the Grant by advertising and promoting  the Grant recipients, managing the funds (including acknowledgement for the tax-free donations), and providing an annual financial report to the Patrice L. Engle Grant Committee. The Patrice L. Engle Grant Committee (comprised of 3-5 members with expertise in global child development and representing academia and international agencies/foundations) managed the Grant by advertising the Grant, selecting Grantees, requesting release of funds through SRCD, involving Grantees in the biennial SRCD meeting, receiving interim and final reports from Grantees, and providing SRCD with an annual report of activities. Announcements regarding the Grant included information on how to make donations to the Patrice L. Engle Dissertation Grant for Global Early Child Development Research.

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178 Original Child Development Research Paper Topics

Child development is represented by all the changes that occur in a child from the time of their birth to adulthood. The changes covered by child development include all the emotional, physical, thought and language changes.

During the process of development, a child transitions from being dependent on his parents to being an independent young adult. It is generally accepted that there are 5 main stages of child development: newborn, infant, toddler, preschool, and school-age.

If you are pursuing a bachelor of science or even a Master of Science degree, you will inevitably have to write at least one research paper about child development. The good news is that writing the paper shouldn’t be too difficult because the Internet contains plenty of information about most aspect of child development.

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• Discuss the Piaget theory on child development
• Research the mechanisms of child development
• Analyze the Toddler stage (1-3 years)
• Research motor skills during child development
• The socio-emotional development of children
• Discuss the 5 stages of development
• Talk about cognitive development
• Research the Preschool stage (3-4 years)
• How does development shape a person’s life?
• Research the role of the environment on development
• Research hands-on experience learning

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• Discuss the Erik Erikson theory on child development
• Effects of parasites on child development
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• Effects of race on child development
• The intellectual development of children
• Discuss maternal drug use effects
• Effects of neglect on the development of children
• The 5 stages of child development
• Talk about the Newborn stage
• Analyze the Pre-school stage (4-5 years)

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• Talk about the effects of malnutrition
• Postnatal depression and child development
• Weight growth during child development
• The speed of height growth
• Analyze the mechanisms of change
• A project about individual differences
• Research the development of children with disabilities

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• Discuss the Behavioral theory on child development
• An in-depth look at secure attachment
• How do emotions change over time?
• Discuss the transition from dependent to independent
• The effect of family on child development
• The role of movement
• The effect of school on child development
• The importance of playing with other children
• The importance of the surroundings
• The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic
• Psychological changes during development
• Research the effects of classroom environment

Child Development Research Topics

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• Discuss the Vygotsky theory on child development
• The role played by genetics
• Compare and contrast the toddler and the infant
• Compare and contrast the infant and the preschool child
• The importance of a psychologist
• Discuss the role of caregivers
• Compare and contrast the toddler and the newborn
• Effects of positive social interactions
• Research disorganized families
• Compare and contrast the preschool and the school age child
• The negative effects of divorce
• The role of a good early childhood life

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• The importance of a good school
• The importance of eating breakfast
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• Teaching sign language to children
• The effects of bullying on children
• Discuss the importance of tangible rewards
• Nurturing good habits
• Sports in the life of a child

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• Discuss ADHD and its effects
• Negative effects of social media on child development
• The role of technology in child development
• Research differently-abled children
• Study the emotional development of children
• An in-depth look at the role of good nutrition
• Research the role of sport in child development
• Research the occurrence of depression
• The struggles of preschool children
• Negative effects of smartphones on child development
• Effects of mass media on school children

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• The different stages of psychological development
• What makes children intelligent?
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• What makes children put their health at risk?
• Research memory in preschool children
• The problem-solving capabilities of a toddler
• Language learning skills at the age of 3
• Do toddlers have a self-preservation instinct?
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• Discuss a school psychology topic
• Research how children think

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• Discuss the role of social interaction
• Is social media good for child development?
• How do children form their ego?
• The history of child development
• Are some children more intelligent than most adults?
• Research the way children understand life
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Great Children Research Topics

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• Research a child’s social development
• Discuss speech development
• Gross motor skills development
• How to monitor child development effectively?
• How important is attention?
• Birth disorders and their negative effects
• Talk about behavioral child development
• The importance of music in child development

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• How to identify a child genius?
• How does the community affect children?
• Can children overcome trauma?
• How important are birthday celebrations?
• How important is the mother in child development?
• How does the loss of hearing affect children?
• Does the child need to visit a psychologist?
• How does autism influence child development?
• Does Facebook negatively affect a child’s development?
• What is the role of genetics?
• What defines a toddler?
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• How much time should a parent spend with his child?
• What is the sociocultural theory?

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• Research into deviant behavior
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• Effects of a poor diet
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• How does technology influence child development?

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• Discuss the most important development milestones
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• The effects of family violence
• Innovative child development techniques
• How much time should you spend with your child?
• Games that stimulate mental growth
• Best ways to solve a behavioral issue
• Negative effects of substance abuse
• Negative effects of divorce

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• Books that children should avoid
• The need for physical punishment
• How important are schools?
• Should children be allowed to play video games?
• The effects of poverty on child development
• Discuss the effects of social insecurity
• Child development in the Indian society

Child Mental Health Essay Topics

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• Best ways to develop a positive mentality
• An in-depth look at anxiety in toddlers
• Discuss the stages of mental development
• The occurrence of depression in preschool children
• Discuss the cause and effects of ADHD
• Can children suffer from PTSD?
• Research the oppositional defiant disorder

Early Childhood Essay Topics

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• Tourette syndrome in toddlers
• Discuss eating disorders in preschool children
• The effects of social media on young children
• Sports that children should play
• Events that can negatively impact a child’s development
• Ways to ensure maximum mental growth
• Discuss the 5 stages of development and make a comparison between them
• Does music affect the mathematical skills of young children?

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• Talk about what makes a child intelligent
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• Stress in young children in the United States
• Should you child see a psychologist?
• Sports that curb child delinquency
• Discuss the effects of watching excessive television
• The effects of religious orientation on a child’s mental health

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• Discuss ways to make ADHD children pay attention
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• Why do ADHD children have learning disabilities?

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