Interactive Links

Early Childhood Development

• The Child Development Website
  This Website has links to pages that describe the classic theories of child development, as well as links to other child development sites.
  
  
• First Years
  This site has tons of information on pregnancy and early childhood development.
  
  
• The Jean Piaget Archives
  This page gives you access to biographical and research information on Jean Piaget.
  (See also pages 315-324 in Psychology in Action, 5e)
  
  
• The Jean Piaget Society
  This page gives you access to more biographical and research information on Jean Piaget.
  (See also pages 315-324 in Psychology in Action, 5e)
  
  
• Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorders (CH.A.D.D.)
  CH.A.D.D. is a nonprofit parent-based organization that strives to better the lives of individuals with attention deficit disorders and those who care for them. This page and its links can help you better understand attention deficit disorder.
  
  
• Developmental Psychology Links
  Links to infancy, childhood development, child protection, parenting, adolescence, and many more child development topics.
  
  
• Parents' Toolbox
  The Children's Television Workshop (Sesame Street) has loaded this site with many parenting hints and information.

Aging

• National Institute on Aging (NIA)
  The NIA is one of the National Institutes of Health. It promotes healthy aging by conducting and supporting research and public education.
  
  
• The Aging Research Centre (ARC)
  ARC is a Website that provides links to research on aging.
  
  

• Psychology and Aging
  This site for the APA journal Psychology and Aging allows you to see the table of contents and also to read abstracts of current articles.
  
  
• The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
  AARP is the largest organization of retired people in the world. This Web page has extensive information about the organization.
  
  
• Social Security Online
  This is the main page for Social Security Administration.

Death and Dying

• Death and Dying
  A summary of the Kubler-Ross stages of the dying patient by Barry Greenwald.
  (See also pages 350-353 in Psychology in Action, 5e)
  
  
• National Hospice Organization
  This page gives you access to information on hospice care. Hospice care is a medically directed, interdisciplinary team -managed program of services that focuses on the terminally ill and their families.

Twins

• Minnesota Twin Family Study
  This study attempts to identify the genetic and environmental influences of the development of psychological traits.  This page contains information about this longitudinal study.

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