Human Development and
Family Studies
Programs at Penn State
Human Development and Family Studies
The Human Development and Family Studies program includes an examination of the research, theory and methodology behind the study of individuals and families. Degrees are offered at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The graduate program is organized into four areas: family studies, individual development, developmental research methodology, and intervention research. The department confers graduate degrees of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) and Master of Science (M.S.).
http://www.hhdev.psu.edu/hdfs/
Professional Associations
American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS)
The only organization in the country that represents professionals in the fields of family and consumer science
http://www.aafcs.org/
Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI)
The ACEI is dedicated to promoting quality education for children from infancy through early adolescence as well as professional growth among childhood educators.
http://www.acei.org/
American Psychological Association (APA)
The APA works to advance psychology as a science, a profession, and a means of promoting human welfare.
http://www.apa.org/
Child Welfare League of America (CWLA)
Founded in 1920, the CWLA is the oldest and largest national nonprofit organization that has been designing and promoting policies and programs to help children and their families.
http://www.cwla.org/
Gerontological Society of America (GSA)
The GSA is the nation's oldest and largest multidisciplinary scientific organization focusing on gerontological research. The Society's goals include promoting research and education on aging.
http://www.geron.org/
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
As the largest organization of early childhood educators in the nation, NAEYC is dedicated to improving educational programs for children from birth through third grade.
http://www.naeyc.org/
National Council on Family Relations (NCFR)
The NCFR provides a forum for researchers, educators and practitioners to promote the development and dissemination of research concerning family and family relationships.
http://www.ncfr.org/
Society for Research in Adult Development (SRAD)
The SRAD, which includes international membership, is interested in positive adult development, starting in late adolescence and continuing throughout life.
http://www.adultdevelopment.org/
Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)
The Society is a multidisciplinary, not-for-profit, professional association founded to promote research in the field of human development, to foster the exchange of information among scientists and other professional of various disciplines, and to encourage applications of research findings.
http://www.srcd.org/
Selected Reference Resources
The Dictionary of Family Psychology and Family Therapy
This dictionary defines over 1,500 terms. Additional information about the terms is also listed, which includes their origin and other related sources.
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Encyclopedia of Family Life
This five volume encyclopedia includes 452 essays dealing with different aspects of the institution of the family in America and Canada. Topics range from "Aging and Elderly Care" to "Adoption" and "Birth Control."
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Encyclopedia of Marriage and the Family
This two volume encyclopedia contains 169 entries about marriage and family-related topics including family values and single, gay, and foster parents.
HQ9.E52 1995 v.1-2 Soc Sci Lib 2nd Floor Paterno
The Encyclopedia of Marriage, Divorce, and the Family
One of the first encyclopedias focusing on the changing lifestyles of families that includes over 500 entries.
HQ9.D38 1989 Soc Sci Lib 2nd Floor Paterno
Encyclopedia of Gerontology: Age, Aging, and the Aged
This two volume encyclopedia, including 139 entries, reviews major topics for students and researchers in the fields of gerontology and geriatrics.
RC952.5.E58 1996 v.1-2 Life Sci Lib 4th Floor Paterno
Indexes and Abstracts
Annual Review of Psychology
Annual Reviews provides access to critical review articles that synthesize primary research literature in Psychology. Users can browse a single issue or search across all issues. The database contains full-text articles from 1996 to present, and table of contents from 1984.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#ANNPSYCHO
Dissertation
Abstracts
Dissertation Abstracts is the primary source for 1.4 million doctoral dissertations
(and selected master's theses) from over 1000 North American and European
universities. Includes a link to the UMI full text dissertation pilot project.
Coverage: 1851 to date. Abstracts are available for dissertations since 1980,
abstracts for theses since 1988.
Updates: monthly (usually between the 20th and 25th day)
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#DISS
ERIC
-- Educational Resources Information Center
ERIC, (Education Resources Information Center),
is a premier database of journal and non-journal education literature, with
more than 1.1 million citations since 1966. Sponsored by the Institute of
Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Dept. of Education.
ERIC covers two types of literature:
Journals [over 1000 scholarly, professional
and practitioner journals]
ERIC Documents [non-journal literature, such
as conference papers, standards reports, etc. Not peer-reviewed].
The recommended ERIC search interface for PSU users is Cambridge Scientific
Abstracts.
What Works Clearinghouse
Created in 2002, the goal of the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) is to identify
findings of scientific evidence. The WWC collects, screens, and identifies
studies of the effectiveness of educational interventions (programs, products,
practices, and policies); reviews studies that have the strongest design;
and reports on the strengths and weaknesses of those studies against the WWC
Evidence Standards. Study
reports [ratings of individual studies and designs for reliability];
intervention reports [findings that meet WWC Evidence Standards for a
particular intervention]; topic
reports [description of topic and each intervention that the WWC reviewed]
http://www.w-w-c.org/
Ethnic
News
Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW) is a comprehensive full text database of the newspapers,
magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Continuously
growing since 1991, with archival material back to 1985, Ethnic NewsWatch
is now a collection of more than 470,000 full-text articles from over 200
publications. Searchable in both English and Spanish, with titles in both
languages and more than 100,000 articles in Spanish, ENW offers in-depth coverage
of a wide range of current and retrospective topics easily accessed using
free text and fielded searching. An average of 7,500 new articles is added
each month.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#ETHNICNEWS
GenderWatch
GenderWatch is a full text database comprised of periodicals and other publications
that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas.
GenderWatch supports programs in gender and women's studies, public policy,
political science, sociology and contemporary culture, education, literature
and the arts, health sciences, history, business, and more. Publications include
academic and scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional
publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, government
publications, and NGO and special reports. GenderWatch contains archival material,
in some cases as far back as the 1970's with additional archival material
continually added.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#GENDERWATCH
HRAF-Human
Relations Area Files
The Human Relations Area Files are designed to facilitate the cross-cultural
study of human society, culture, and behavior. Two HRAF databases are available:
Ethnography Collection and Archaeology Collection. They provide full-text
access to source material on a wide variety of cultures around the world,
as well as a cultural summary and bibliography for each culture covered.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#HRAF0
The
International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences
The International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences is the online
equivalent of the 24 volume encyclopedia published in 2002. Content is organized
around more than 30 primarily interdisciplinary topical areas of active research
and significant promise (for example, memory, crime and violence, markets,
modernization), combined with the categories: Overarching Topics,Disciplines,
Intersecting fields, and Applications. Includes extensive indices, searchable
full-text, and embedded electronic reference links. Annual updates are planned
for release from 2004.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#SOCBEHVSCI
Kraus
Curriculum Development Library (KCDL)
Kraus Curriculum Development Library (KCDL) Online is the premier searchable
database of retrospective and current collections of curriculum guides, lesson
plans, frameworks, standards, and teaching practices for PreK-12, and Adult
Basic Education. Information in the database covers all disciplines, subjects,
and grade levels found in PreK through 12th grade education and Adult Basic
Education.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#KCDLONLINE
Professional
Development Collection
Professional Development Collection, designed for professional educators and
librarians, provides a highly specialized collection of over 515 full text
journals, including nearly 350 peer-reviewed titles, with full text dating
as far back as 1965. . It also provides full text for 167 education pamphlets,
a searchable images database, and will soon contain full text for scholarly
monographs. A title list can be seen at http://www.epnet.com/titlelists/pdf/tf.pdf
.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#PROFDEV
ProQuest
Psychology Journals
ProQuest Psychology Journals: A full text database subset of PsycINFO, including
400 full-text journals that are licensed to ProQuest. Coverage is typically
from 1996, with a few titles prior to that date. (Coverage does not presently
include APA journals; additions to coverage occur frequently.)
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#PQPSYC
PsycINFO
PsycINFO, the primary database for psychology and related disciplines, is
a database of psychological literature from the 1800's to the present, from
1300 journals from 50 countries. Through SilverPlatter, it provides full text,
searchable access to more than 25,000 articles from 42 journals published
by APA and allied organizations from 1988 to the present, and links to non-APA
full text journals owned in electronic format by the University Libraries.
Related subject areas included education, organizational management, psychophysiology,
psychiatry, nursing, ergonomics, environmental psychology, human factors engineering,
sociology, business, law and more. Published by the American Psychological
Association.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#PSYCART
PubMed
(Medline)
MEDLINE (which stands for MEDlars onLINE) is the National Library of Medicine's
(NLM) premier bibliographic database. It includes the fields of medicine,
nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical
sciences. MEDLINE has 9 million citations and author abstracts from current
biomedical journals published in the U.S. and 70 foreign countries. MEDLINE
is available to Penn State users through Web access. Web-based access is also
available to any user through PubMed.
Coverage: indexes 3600 journals, international in scope, 1966-Present. Updates:
Monthly
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#MEDLINE4
Social
Science Citation Index
Social Science Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal
literature of the social sciences. It covers 1400 social science journals.
The index can be used to look up either a specific author or a particular
publication to see how many articles in the database cited that author or
publication. The index can also be used to find related articles (articles
that have at least one reference in common).
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#SSCINDEX
Sociological
Abstracts
Index for English language journals in Sociology, Social Work, and other Social
Sciences. Provides abstracts for articles and is international in scope.
Coverage: 1963-present.
http://www.lias.psu.edu/dball.html#SOCABS
Web
of Science (Penn State users only)
This database provides access to the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences
Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index from 1986 on.
Connect through the E-Resource list:
http://www.lias.psu.edu/entry/webofsci.html
Selected Journals
Adolescence
This journal includes research focusing on the period of development between
puberty and the attainment of adulthood. BF724.A36
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Child Development
Published since 1930 by the Society for Research in Child Development, Child
Development features research on the fetal period through adolescence.
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http://www.srcd.org/cd.html
Journal
of Mental Health and Aging
The editorial board for this quarterly journal is headquartered at the Louis
de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute at the University of South Florida.
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http://www.fmhi.usf.edu/amh/journal/home.html
Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal
The membership journal of the American Association of Family and Consumer
Sciences, the Paterno Library has issues from 1994 to date.
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Journal
of Marriage and the Family
Published by the National Council on Family Relations, this journal has been
one of the leading publications in the field of family studies for 60 years.
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http://www.jstor.org/journals/00222445.html
Developmental
Psychology
This bimonthly journal published by the American Psychological Association
contains research articles dealing with human development across the life
span.
BF699 .D49 Educ. & Behav. Sci. Lib. 5th floor Paterno
http://www.apa.org/journals/dev.html
Journal of Nutrition Education
and Behavior
The official publication of the Society for Nutrition Education was formerly
titled the Journal of Nutrition Education, but has been published under its
current title since 2002.
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http://www.jneb.org/
Journal
of Family Issues
This journal concentrates on contemporary social issues and problems relating
to marriage and family life as well as theoretical and professional issues
of interest to those in the field of family studies.
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http://www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=163
The
Gerontologist
This bimonthly journal published by The Gerontological Society of America
includes gerontological research on such topics as social policy, program
development, and service delivery.
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http://gerontologist.gerontologyjournals.org/
Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology
Published by the American Psychological Association, this journal is divided
into three sections: Attitudes and Social Cognition, Interpersonal Relations
and Group Processes, and Personality Processes and Individual Differences.
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http://www.apa.org/journals/psp.html
Journal
of Family Psychology
Also published by the American Psychological Association, this journal includes
scholarly articles on topics ranging from marital and family processes, life
stages and transitions, and stress and coping to methodological and statistical
advances in the study of marriage and the family.
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http://www.apa.org/journals/fam.html
Psychology and Aging
This journal, another published by the American Psychological Association,
focuses on research ranging from biobehavioral, clinical, educational, experimental
(laboratory, field, or naturalistic studies), methodological, to psychosocial.
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Paterno
Journal of Gerontology
The official publication of the Gerontological Society is divided into 4 sections:
social sciences, biological sciences, medical sciences and psychological sciences.
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Resources for Human Development and Family Studies
Administration on
Aging (AoA)
This website created by the Administration on Aging, an agency in the U.S.
Dept. of Health and Human Services, provides a detailed overview of a many
topics, programs and services related to aging.
http://www.aoa.dhhs.gov/
Administration for
Children and Families (ACF)
Created by the ACF, another agency in the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services,
this website provides information on family support, child support, child
care, Head Start, and other programs related to children and families.
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/
Adolescence:
Change and Continuity
This website, which was developed by Penn State students in the Human Development
and Family Studies 433 course: The Transition to Adulthood, contains a wealth
of information and links related to adolescence.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/n/x/nxd10/adolesce.htm
Beansprout Networks
A website designed for pediatricians and child care professionals, which includes
information about winning and writing grants, program management, and health
and safety issues.
http://www.beansprout.net
Child Trends
This site contains the latest in childhood research in order to improve and
inform decision-making that affects children.
http://www.childtrends.org
National
Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
This website provides a wide variety of information including health information
for children and families as well as information regarding research funding
by the NICHD.
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/default.htm
Ohio
State University Human Development Family Life Resource Center
This website, maintained by the Department of Human Development and Family
Science at Ohio State University, provides a wide variety of information on
topics such as adolescence, young children, parenting, family life, midlife,
and aging.
http://www.hec.ohio-state.edu/famlife/index.htm