Kagan and colleagues (Kagan, Reznick, & Snidman, 1987) have described a temperament construct termed "behavioral inhibition to the unfamiliar" (BI), which is characterized by the predisposition to be irritable as an infant, unusually shy and fearful as a toddler, and quiet, cautious, and withdrawn in the preschool and early school age years, with marked behavioral restraint and physiological arousal in unfamiliar situations. The opposite...

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As evidenced by terms such as "affect revolution" (Fischer & Tangney, 1995), considerable research in the past decade has been devoted to the study of emotional development. Given the emerging evidence that emotional development is strongly related to healthy psychological functioning (Cicchetti, Ackerman, & Izard, 1995; Southam-Gerow & Kendall, 2002), research has attempted to identify the components deemed necessary for adaptive...

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INTRODUCTION ¶ Children and adolescents with poor reading skills face a variety of challenges in their lives, and may be at risk for emotional and behavioral problems. In some cases, behavioral or emotional problems may be triggered by the stress of difficulties in school, or they may be a contributing factor to poor achievement in school or to learning difficulties (Rutter & Yule, 1970). Severity of behavioral and emotional problems also may...

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Recently, an inadvertent injection of chlorhexidine during a radiological procedure led to the tragic death of a 69-year-old grandmother named Mary McClinton. (1) This death, the result of system errors, may have been preventable. Unfortunately, it follows a number of other patient deaths that occurred as the direct result of solutions being placed in unlabeled basins during surgical and other invasive procedures. (2) ¶ Three years ago, Ben...

Pediatric anxiety and depression are highly comorbid disorders with significant lifetime morbidity and mortality (Axelson & Birmaher, 2001; Pine, Cohen, Gurley, Brook, & Ma, 1998). Although these emotional disorders are commonly thought to reflect some maladaptive changes in emotion regulation, there is currently little understanding of the mechanisms underlying these changes. ¶ Information processing models have been proposed to explain...