Developmental: Internet Links

General Developmental Sites

ParentsPlace.com (http://www.parentsplace.com/)
The first parenting community on the web. Operated by two stay-at-home parents who believe parents are the best resource for other parents. ParentsPlace.com is the personal, most responsive, one-stop shop for parenting literature, advice columns, chat, bulletin boards, and shopping.

Athabasca University Developmental Sites

APA Division 20
Site of APA's Division for Adult Development and Aging which contains many resources.

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP)
Information and resources concerning psychological problems that arise among children.

CLASSIC THEORIES OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT

Development of Reasoning

Cognitive Constructivism
http://www.coe.uh.edu/~srmehall/theory/cognitive.html
Piaget's proposed stages of cognitive development.
 
 

Infancy: Using Caregivers as a Base for Growth

Attachment: Theory and Research @ Stony Brook
http://www.psy.sunysb.edu/ewaters/
Reports of Bowlby - Ainsworth attachment theory and research. A library of attachment researchers' publication lists, attachment measures for infant-mother, childhood, parenting, and marriage research. A gallery of attachment artifacts and observations in the Bowlby - Ainsworth tradition.
 
 

Adolescence: Breaking Out of the Cocoon

Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Reasoning
http://www.awa.com/w2/erotic_computing/kohlberg.stages.html
Kohlberg's six stages of child and adult development.

Adulthood: Finding Satisfaction in Love and Work

SELF-REPORT MEASURES OF ADULT ROMANTIC ATTACHMENT by Phillip R. Shaver and R. Chris Fraley
http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/Shaver/Measures.html
Because of growing interest in self-report research on adolescent and adult romantic attachment, following the publication of "Romantic Love Conceptualized as an Attachment Process" (Hazan & Shaver, 1987), we receive an increasing number of requests each month for information, reprints, and measures.