Resource Guide:
Child and Adolescent Development

• TEDTalks on Child Development

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• U.S. Office of Population Affairs: Adolescent Development
• FPG Child Development Institute
• Harvard Center on the Developing Child
• Child Care and Early Education Research Connections
• National Association for the Education of Young Children
• American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
• U.S. National Institutes of Health

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Child development
• Child development—Longitudinal studies
• Child psychology
• Children with disabilities—Development
• Adolescence
• Teenagers
• Adolescent development
• Adolescent psychology
• Youth—Social conditions
• Puberty
• Human development
• Personality development
• Moral development
• Cognition
• Parenting
• Family
• Nature and nurture

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Academic Search Complete
• Alt HealthWatch
• Credo Reference
• Education Research Complete
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• ERIC
• Handbook of Psychology, 2nd Ed.
• Health Source – Consumer Edition
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
• JSTOR
• MasterFILE Premier
• Military & Government Collection
• Newspaper Source Plus
• Oxford Bibliographies Online
• Oxford Reference
• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
• Statista
• Wiley Online Library

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• Child Development
• Child Development Research
• Infant and Child Development
• Child Development Perspectives
• Early Childhood Research & Practice
• Developmental Science
• International Journal of Adolescence and Youth
• New Directions for Child & Adolescent Development
• Child & Youth Care Forum

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.