Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology: meeting the challenge of translational research in child psychology

The theme of the 35th Symposia and its attendant volume is Meeting the Challenge of Translational Research in Developmental Psychology. On a national level, there is increasing pressure from the National Institute of Health, the major source of research funds in the field, and elsewhere to move basic research more rapidly into clinical interventions. The emphasis on this type of research has very significant import for how researchers in the developmental sciences need to go about their work, as well as complex and challenging portents forthe training of future scholars. The concept of translational research is clearer in medical fields where basic bench research on, say, how insulin cells function needs to be moved rapidly into the development of more effective drugsfor treating diabetes. In the field of developmental psychology how this emphasis will alter basic research on, say, how infants learn language or how children learn to negotiate conflict with peers, is far from certain. Previously, basic developmental researchers could point to potential impacts on how parents raise their children and how educators develop curricula. The current emphasis on explicit translation of basic research into prevention or intervention (treatments) for disorders, strongly challenges the field and raises concerns about where and whether basic research on human social, emotional, and cognitive development will find a home. Eight scholars address issues relevant to disorders of development present their processes and findings. The new, translational research these scholars are conducting reveals how meeting the challenge of translation can strengthen our understanding of basic processes in development.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-34513-9
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 329
• Fecha Publicación: 10/03/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés