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A tool to record and support the early development of children including those with special educational needs or disabilities

Early intervention is key for children with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND), and therefore early assessment is crucial. Information from parents about children's current ability and their developmental history can make valid and useful contributions to developmental assessments. Parental input is also important in early education for children with and without SEND. In England, recent changes to statutory guidance for early education highlight partnership working with parents, progress checks and continuous observation. The Early Years Developmental Journal (EYDJ), an Early Support tool primarily aimed at families, aims to support early identification and assessment for children with SEND and early education for all children. The article describes Early Support to provide a backdrop and then outlines the purpose, structure and rigorous development process of the EYDJ. Use of the EYDJ to support parents, early years education practitioners, health visitors, developmental assessments and the forthcoming English special educational needs (SEN) reforms is also described.

Reflections on 25 years at the Journal

My tenure at Emergency Medicine Australasia over 25 years has encompassed a number of editorial roles, beginning as the founding Editor in 1989 when the journal Emergency Doctor was a mere newsletter, before becoming Emergency Medicine, which was produced at Fremantle Hospital. I was then Scientific Editor when I stood down as Editor and Gerry FitzGerald was appointed Editor-in-Chief under a new organisational structure in 1994, by which time the journal Emergency Medicine was produced at the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine in Melbourne. This was followed by a return to the Editor-in-Chief position at the end of 1999 when the journal Emergency Medicine was now produced by Blackwell. Finally, my role became that of Emeritus Editor when Tony Brown’s tenure as Editor-in-Chief began at the end of 2003 and the Journal finally acquired its current title of Emergency Medicine Australasia. My goals and aspirations for the Journal over that time have understandably reflected where the Journal was in its development during each of those periods, and my role. In the beginning, I was more than happy with a regular newsletter that could enhance clinical communication between geographically dispersed emergency physicians and other clinicians involved in emergency medicine, who were members of the Australasian Society for Emergency Medicine. Fairly quickly though, it became clear that this vehicle could well mature into a bona fide medical journal. My greatest pleasures during this first 5 years of the Journal’s development reflected the same pioneering spirit we all had in developing the nascent specialty. It was exciting, the wealth of possibilities far outweighed any perceived risks, and there was a great sense of camaraderie among those Fellows and supporting staff who were volunteering their time and skills in this great adventure. AnneMaree Kelly, Bryan Walpole, John Vinen and Gordian Fulde were all keen and helpful, and the Annual Conference chat with Paul Gaudry and Ken Abraham kept things in perspective. By the end of that first 5 years, it was clear that Emergency Medicine was here to stay as a journal, albeit with many hurdles still to navigate; we had published 242 articles in that time, 17% original research, 17% case reports and 14% review articles. Gerry FitzGerald convinced me to stay on as Scientific Editor of the Journal when he was appointed Editor-in-Chief in 1994, and over the next 5 years, my goals were able to be much more focused on getting the journal processes right, without the distraction of having to produce the actual copy. As part of that, the Journal sponsors funded my attendance at the World Association of Medical Editors Conference in Prague in 1997. Here I met luminaries of journalology such as Drummond Rennie and Richard Smith, and discovered the evidence base (or lack thereof) around biomedical publishing itself. My interest was particularly sparked by presentations on peer review, conflict of interest, scientific misconduct and the ethics of biomedical publishing; I was amazed and alarmed to find out about the whole issue of guest and ghost authorship, listening to presentations by people who had written papers in major journals but who did not appear in the list of authors or even receive any acknowledgement. It was here that I began to be concerned about the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on medical publishing, and more importantly, on research and clinical practice in medicine. My views on the potential harms caused by secrecy in science became clearer after that conference, and after discussion with the Editorial Board, Emergency Medicine opened its process of peer review so that authors and reviewers knew each other’s identities. We continue with open peer review at Emergency Medicine Australasia to this day, and I believe it is one of the most important improvements we have introduced at the

Explicit Reference to Theory: A Content Analysis of Two Prominent Human Development Journals

Flagship journals have been analyzed for the extent of theory employment in published articles. However, there has been no exploration of frequency of theoretical references in the two leading developmental journals. Therefore, the authors analyzed articles from 2000-2010 in Child Development (N = 1174) and Developmental Psychology (N = 1075) for studies' frequency of theory engagement. Methods of analysis, names of referenced theories, and locations of theories were recorded. Most articles did not explicitly reference theories. Although there was no difference between qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and mentions of theory, the authors coded very few articles as strictly qualitative. When articles did include reference to theory, it was part of the input (e.g., introduction, literature review) more so than the output. Names of theories that explicitly included family (e.g., systems theory) rarely appeared. We conclude that developmental researchers are doing no better than their counterparts in mentioning theory in their articles in flagship journals.

Beyond the ‘red book’: The Early Years Developmental Journal

The new Early Years Developmental Journal was launched in February 2013 by Early Support. This journal provides a supplement to the Personal Child Health Record. John Oates explains the benefits of the journal for health professionals and parents.

The role of music in adolescent development: much more than the same old song

There is an increasingly robust literature of recent research findings that support the developmental importance of music in adolescence. However, this intriguing literature is not familiar to many developmental psychologists, possibly due to a lack of communication among researchers and because of publication trends in developmental journals. This review aims at informing on current knowledge of how music listening can play a role in the psychosocial development of adolescents. To this end, three arguments are discussed in light of recent empirical research: music influences important aspects of adolescent development; music can represent a protective and a risk factor; and music can serve as an adjunct component in prevention and intervention. Therefore, it is proposed how music is a developmental resource in adolescence. It is argued that research on the developmental role of music can create a window to the everyday psychological, social, and cultural needs of contemporary adolescents.

The Importance of Digital Games for Children and Young People

Children and young people live in a world full of media. In the past, these used to be mainly print media and television, more recently the weight has shifted toward digital media such as the Internet. Surveys of young people in many countries (see the review by Blumberg, Blades, & Oates, 2013) have shown that children spend a large proportion of their time with media. This is often for entertainment (e.g., watching television, playing computer games, social networking), but may also be used in different contexts, such as children using media in the classroom or in other educational settings. Despite the prevalence and importance of media in young people’s lives, psychologists have until recently paid little attention to children’s media activities. When Durkin and Blades (2009) surveyed the content of one developmental psychology journal between 1983 and 2008, a time of rapid media development, they found that although the journal included papers on all aspects of childhood it had published only two papers on young people and media. A na ve reader who turned to most psychology journals to find out about children’s development would be left ignorant of the fact that media play a large and important part in children’s lives. One reason for this topical issue of the Zeitschrift f r Psychologie was, therefore, to highlight the impact of media on children’s development, and to emphasize the importance of taking a psychological perspective when researching media used by children and young people. The focus of this topical issue is on children’s use of digital games. Past research into children and the media has focused on television, but the growth of the Internet, children’s independent access to the Internet, and the development of interactive media like computer games have opened up new issues and new research areas that have hardly been investigated. When there has been research into young people and media in recent years, that research has often been about the negative impact of media on children (Elson & Ferguson, in press). However, in this topical issue we will emphasize that game play can be a major positive influence on children’s learning, and that this aspect of media should be the focus of research and development (Blumberg et al., 2013). An activity that engages and motivates children, such as game play, is one that can be used to stimulate their knowledge and learning. In this issue, we present six papers that focus on the positive aspects of games play. Blumberg et al. (2013) provide a general overview of the appeal and educational ramifications of digital game play for youths and two additional review articles focus on specific aspects of digital games and their use by children and adolescents: Best (2013) reviews the state of the art in the nascent field of research on exergames, designed to encourage physical activity, while Durkin, Boyle, Hunter, and Conti-Ramsden (2013) focus on the games played by young people with learning difficulties and review the emerging literature in the field. Sherry (2013) then discusses the importance of educational games and how they can benefit children’s knowledge and learning. Evans, Norton, Chang, DeaterDeckard, and Balci (2013) describe the development of the Candy Factory Game, a game application they designed to help middle school students learn algebra. Hamlen (2013) describes a systematic series of investigations into children’s reasons and motivations for involvement in game play and how they benefit from such play. This topical issue of the Zeitschrift f r Psychologie thus includes papers about the design, the use, and the benefits of digital games. These papers provide examples of how well-designed educational games can provide effective learning environments for children and young people. As Blumberg et al. (2013) point out, game play offers children the opportunity to experience new forms of learning, which is further illustrated with examples in this issue’s Research Spotlight ‘‘New Research and Practice in the Field of Youth and the Media.’’ Through games, children can be motivated to learn new concepts in entertaining contexts, they can be

DIVORCE IN THE NURSERY: ON INFANTS AND OVERNIGHT CARE

Infants, parental separation, custody, and overnight care: a vexed combination of issues and needs that has long perplexed the family law field. Carol George and Judith Solomon have conducted the only published observational study of infant attachment in light of postseparation overnight care arrangements. Here they revisit that study and bring more than three decades of experience to bear on questions concerning very young children implicated in family law disputes. Currently a professor of psychology at Mills College, California, George is an author and coauthor of several notable attachment measures and has over 50 research publications in the area of attachment. Judith Solomon is both a clinical psychologist and a researcher in the attachmentfield, specializing in the study of early attachment relationships and representations, most recently in the Department of Pediatrics, Bridgeport Hospital. George and Solomon are associate editors of the journal, Attachment and Human Development, reviewers on multiple developmental journals, and both consult and teach internationally.

Special Issue Introduction: The Place of Self-Harm in Adolescent Development

The study of adolescence appropriately includes fascinating research agendas that remind us of how adolescents are not as troubled and troubling as many would have us believe. Indeed, the prior editor of this journal, Daniel Offer, spearheaded much of the rethinking of negative perceptions of adolescents’ experiences and development (see Offer, 2007; Levesque, 2007). Yet, there is no denying that some youth considerably suffer and that many youth inflict harm on themselves. We have known for quite some time that the most obvious forms of self-harm, such as cutting, mutilation, and injury, are present in approximately 15% of community samples of adolescents (see, e.g., Laye-Gindhu and Schonert-Reichl 2005). Somewhat surprisingly, researchers studying healthy adolescent development have not investigated the roots of adolescents’ self harm as much as one might have expected, and even more striking has been the failure to consider the breadth of self-destructive behaviors. During the past 5 years, for example, this journal only has published five articles directly related to self-harm, with the articles ranging from a focus on suicidality (Husler et al. 2005), nonsuicidal self-harm (Laye-Gindhu and SchonertReichl 2005), friends’ suicides (Liu, 2006) and factors contributing to suicidal ideation (Sun & Hui, 2007) and to suicidal behavior (Sigfusdottir et al. 2008). A quick look at leading developmental journals focusing on adolescents but not associated with clinical, counseling or medical associations reveals that each either has published none (Journal of Adolescent Research and Journal of Early Adolescence) or only two (Journal of Research on Adolescence and Youth and Society) over the same time period. Although it is important not to loose sight of the reality that many youth transition relatively well into and out of adolescence, it seems equally important not to neglect the harms that adolescents suffer on their own volition. Equally important is the need to realize that the reasons adolescents may harm themselves and put themselves at risk rest in relationships that they have with others and in the wide variety of sociocultural forces that likely shape their entire development. The relative failure of those of us studying adolescent development to address this area of research led to the development of this special issue. This special issue invited manuscripts focusing on the place of self-harm in adolescent development. Submitted manuscripts could examine a wide variety of issues relating to deliberate self-harm (e.g., self-mutilation and suicide) as well as non-deliberate selfinjury (such as engagement in high risk activities and injuries). The special issue’s goal was to both deepen and expand our understanding of what constitutes self-harm as well as its causes. Given the breadth of what self-harm could encompass, efforts were made to invite researchers who typically have not published in adolescent development journals. The response was absolutely fantastic. The articles deliver on this special issue’s goals. The call for papers attracted a high number of exceptionally strong manuscripts and eventually resulted in three journal issues rather than one. The breadth of disciplinary frameworks that authors bring to our special issue is impressive, as it ranges from developmental psychology, psychiatry, medicine, neuroscience, epidemiology, criminology, education, social work, clinical psychology, and sociology to public health. As a result, the articles bring together a strong group of studies that range in their strengths and foci, with some providing longitudinal analyses, others addressing methodological challenges (e.g., measurement and sampling issues), with others addressing important ecological contexts (e.g., family, partner, peer, school, neighborhoods, R. J. R. Levesque (&) Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA e-mail: rlevesqu@indiana.edu

Childhood Disorders and Developmental Influences: A 10-Year Content Analysis of Two Prominent Journals

Many scholars and practitioners prefer to use a developmental approach toward investigation and treatment of child psychopathology. However, the extent to which development is considered in childhood disorder research was unclear. Therefore, retrospective analyses were conducted of publications from 1996 to 2005 in a prominent abnormal child psychology journal (Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology; N = 472) and a prominent developmental psychology journal (Developmental Psychology; N = 926), to investigate the frequency of appearance of developmental factors and childhood disorders. Data on author affiliation and type, and acknowledgement of funding, were also analyzed. Our findings were consistent with a previous analysis; most studies were conducted by funded, university-affiliated researchers. Some disorders, including those typically construed as developmental in nature, (e.g., PDD-NOS) appeared significantly more in the abnormal than the developmental journal. Pathology was infrequently mentioned in the journal with a developmental focus. Implications of these findings are discussed. It is reasonable to suggest that the present analysis may lead to important changes in policy and resource allocation as relevant to children and their families.

Utopia Offline, Dystopia Online: Two Sides of Nation-Building Journalism in Singapore

Singapore has espoused the nation-building, developmental model of journalism since independence. It has made its national media a byword for compliance with the government, and often frames articles to show the nation in a better light. The other side of this is that blogs and news websites react against these constraints imposed on the mainstream media and may be assumed to swing to another extreme, showing the island in a worse light. As a result, the mainstream print media of Singapore is characterised by its upbeat, positive spin on government-related stories—creating the image of a utopia in the readers’ minds. Blogs and unofficial online news websites, by contrast, tend to be characterised by a negative, bleak outlook that might create in the mind of the reader the idea that the country is a dystopia. The assumption would be that a controlled media would be less democratic than an uncontrolled cyberspace. That may not be the case. This study compares print and online coverage of the escape of terrorism suspect Mas Selamat from custody in 2008. It found that while the print media paints a generally rosy picture of Singapore’s efforts to apprehend the escapee, it does not shy away from asking difficult questions that could embarrass the government. At the same time, the online coverage was not universally critical of the authorities, it can be said to show some hallmarks of developmental journalism. The utopia is not as perfect as expected, nor is the dystopia quite so dark. Both kinds of media may be considered to reflect a broader social consensus of what is important in news coverage, and in different ways show a different side of the media-democracy relationship in Singapore.

New horizons ahead

New horizons ahead

Introducing Edward N. Pugh, Jr.

It is my pleasure to introduce Edward N. Pugh, Jr., who has agreed to take over the responsibilities as Editor of the Journal of General Physiology, effective July 1, 2008. Ed has had a long association with the Journal. He has reviewed manuscripts for more than 20 years; and he published his first article in the Journal in 1989. He joined the Editorial Board in 1990, became Advisory Editor in 2004, and Associate Editor July 1, 2006. Ed has been a major contributor to the present understanding of visual transduction. He has made important discoveries relating to color vision, phototransduction, and dark adaptation in studies that range from mouse to man (and a large number of other preparations)—mechanistic studies that are characterized by the elegance of the experimental approach and the careful, quantitative, and insightful analysis of the results. Ed's contributions, indeed, serve as models for studies that epitomize the mission: “to publish articles that elucidate basic biological, chemical, or physical mechanisms of broad physiological significance.” Though I knew of Ed and his accomplishments for many years, we did not get to know each other until shortly after I became Editor in 1995. Ed had agreed to write a Commentary, the second one that we published; we communicated extensively about how to proceed, which contributed to the formulation of our current guidelines for Commentaries. Since then I have come to greatly appreciate Ed's many contributions to the Journal—as an author, reviewer, and source of advice and information. More recently, during Ed's tenure as Associate Editor, I have been impressed by the breadth of his interests and his commitment to the Journal and what it stands for. Over the years I have come to understand how our authors, reviewers, and readers are committed to the Journal, in an almost personal manner—a sense of community that is rare among scientific journals but which has served the Journal well. Ed has a particularly deep commitment to the Journal and its values, and I look forward to observe the Journal's continued development and growth under his leadership. Finally I wish to thank a few individuals for their many contributions to the Journal during my 24 years as Associate Editor and Editor—first and foremost my predecessor, Paul F. Cranefield, who was an exemplary mentor and set an example for us all to follow, and my fellow Associate Editors David Gadsby and Bob Shapley. We had a good time together, and I have had the pleasure of working with David for all these 24 years; I deeply appreciate his advice and support. Over the last 12+ years Angus Nairn, Larry Palmer, Ken Holmes, and Ed have joined the Journal as Associate Editors. The Associate Editors are most accomplished and well-spoken individuals with diverse interests and expertise, as well as mutual respect and willingness to speak their minds—they have contributed enormously to the Journal. The level of the discourse at the weekly Editors' meetings is high, as we review the reviews and strive toward a fair and balanced decision on every manuscript. We educated each other, and I will carry many good memories of these discussions. Past and present members of the Journal's Board have provided invaluable assistance, including advice on difficult editorial issues; I would like to emphasize the contributions by Clay Armstrong, Carol Deutsch, Paul de Weer, Don Hilgemann, Bertil Hille, Henry Lester, Chris Miller, and Gary Yellen. David Greene has been an exceptional Managing Editor, who has been an invaluable resource and contributed immensely to the Journal, and the former and present Directors of the Rockefeller University Press, Michael Held and Mike Rossner, respectively, provided an environment that nourished the Journal's development and growth. The Journal has done well—due to the efforts of these and many more dedicated individuals. It has been a privilege to work with them.

New Year! New Look! New Process!

Happy New Year to all and I hope you are looking forward to another exciting year for the International Journal of Mental Health Nursing as I am. I am very excited to introduce the new structure and of course the new members of the Editorial Board for the IJMHN. The call for Expressions of Interest was met with a large number of enquiries and applications. The fact that so many of these were from outside Australia demonstrates the place the journal new holds within the international community of mental health nurses, while still retaining a strong interest within Australia. It was the source of both pleasure and anguish that the number of EOIs received far outnumbered the positions available. The pleasure reflects the popularity of the IJMHN within professional and scholarly communities and the willingness of the journal's readership to become actively involved in the future of the journal. The anguish comes from not being able to convert all of that interest into positions on the Board. To those applicants who were not already reviewers, I have extended an invitation to contribute to the journal in this important capacity and many have already accepted. The ongoing success of the IJMHN depends in no small part on the availability and willingness of reviewers to provide valuable feedback as part of the peer review process. The Board now has three Associate Editors from Asia, the United Kingdom and United States. Their role will be specifically aimed at increasing the penetration of the journal in these areas, securing reviewers, soliciting papers and increasing subscriptions. These positions will be supported by an Editorial Board of an additional 20 members, including nine from Australia and 11 from overseas. The international contingent represents eight countries including England, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Norway, Thailand and Sweden. The new members of the Board, many highly experienced with Editorial Boards of other journals, will be well supported by those who have been in the role for a number of years. Trish Martin and I are very excited about working with this new team. The expertise and enthusiasm of members will be vitally important as submissions continue to grow particularly from outside of Australia. Many new members have already contacted us with ideas. Their enthusiasm and willingness to be an active part of this role is fantastic and I can't wait to work with you all together as a large team with so much talent in mental health nursing, research, publication and commitment to the larger selection. It is a privilege to be the Editor-in-Chief at this important time in the Journal's development. Other exciting developments for the journal include the introduction of Manuscript Central. Some of you may have used this system before to submit articles. It provides the opportunity for you to map the stage for the production process where your article is at any one time. This will be a really important development that in time can completely change the way the work of the journal is conducted. The internet based service can be accessed from all over the world, which means it won't be difficult to stay on top of the work load. This will enable us to even further decrease the time from submission of the manuscript until the first response is received by the authors. The move from four to six issues in 2007 has given me plenty to do in my spare time but has substantially reduced the time delay between acceptance of the article and publication, from about 12–15 months, to about 4–6 months. This ensures that the content of the journal is relevant and up to date. It also keeps authors happy. When their work goes into print in a timely fashion they are much more likely to submit further work. With the input and assistance of the new Editorial Board, 2008 should prove to be another exciting year, full of knowledge, ideas, debate and controversy that are so necessary as part of the mental health nursing agenda. In closing I would like to thank the retiring members of former Editorial Board for their contribution to the journal and wish them all the very best with their future endeavours.

Early support developmental journal for children with visual impairment: the case for a new developmental framework for early intervention

Congenital visual impairment has serious consequences for early development, particularly in those with the most profound impairment. Although there is individual variation, developmental delays and risks, including 'developmental setback', are widespread. There is no scientifically robust developmental framework grounded in contemporary theory and scientific knowledge to guide early intervention which may prevent or minimize the risk factors and developmental difficulties. The UK governmental initiative, Early Support, gave the impetus for developing a new developmental framework for babies and young children with visual impairment. This paper reports on the scientific literature that underpins the new framework and the limitations of existing intervention materials. The case for focusing on particular vulnerable areas and developing a new developmental framework, the Early Support Developmental Journal for babies and children with severe visual impairment, is presented. The future direction for service delivery and evaluation is briefly described.

A MESSAGE FROM THE EDITORS

This issue marks an important stage in the Journal's development. In our original mission statement we recognized that Modern Intellectual History was likely in the first instance to be devoted to publishing work on intellectual history that was essentially Western in orientation and we looked forward to the day in which it would be possible to extend our reach to non-Western as well as Western history.

Child psychotherapy then and now

The following is the text of an introductory presentation given on the occasion of the 40th Birthday Conference of the Journal of Child Psychotherapy. It provides an historical overview of the Journal's development, and in particular compares and contrasts the first two issues of the Journal with the two most recent. The importance of research is emphasised.

AAA award winners

AAA award winners

A Renewed Journal for the New Millenium

A Renewed Journal for the New Millenium

Developmental news coverage in the Indian press

Developmental journalism covers the entire gamut of socio-economic and cultural events, and it does not differ drastically from regular news coverage. Rather, its emphasis is more on developmental aspects keeping in view the context of development; and it examines critically and reports the relevance, enactment and impact of developmental programmes.This paper analyzes the coverage of developmental news in four Indian newspapers over a period of one year. It concludes that the coverage of developmental news is neither significant nor encouraging in the sample dailies.

Old Wine in a New Bottle: Public Journalism, Developmental Journalism, and Social Responsibility

The emerging concept of public journalism in the United States is very similar to the concept of developmental journalism that the West had denounced in the past in debates concerning the New World Information and Communication Order (KWICO). Many of the ideas of the International Commission for the Study of Communication Problems, as well as those regarding the social responsibility theory of the press associated with the Commission on Freedom of the Press, have appeared in the writings of those who advocate public journalism. Just as during the NWICO debates, scholars are questioning the validity of conventional news values based on what Galtung and Vincent call “occidental cosmology.” Participatory communication and cultural identity appear to be vital components of both public journalism and developmental journalism. How can one explain the philosophical similarities of these three movements—social responsibility, NWICO, and public journalism— that have influenced our thinking on journalism during the second half of the 20th century? This essay argues that all three were responses to the effects of different stages of capitalism on the press, and that their similarities are a consequence of evolutionary thinking.