Additional Internet Resources

American Academy of Pediatrics
(http://www.aap.org)

American Medical Association
(http://www.ama-assn.org)

APA site
(http://www.apa.org)

Offers a multitude of options for learning about pregnancy, childbirth options, and other topics covered in this chapter.

APS site
(http://www.psychologicalscience.org)

Ask Dr. Bob
(http://www.tripod.com/health)

Rob Jandl, assisted by a panel of physicians, answers questions; medical links

The Child Development Website
(http://idealist.com/kt)

Information on children's topics

Early Childhood Care and Development
(http://www.ecdgroup.com)

Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
(http://www.ed.gov/pubs/pubdb.html)

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, leads to numerous documents related to early childhood education-anyone involved in education or developmental psychology would be wise to bookmark this site for ease of reference

Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences
(http://federation.apa.org/)

Be sure to check the Federation news for brief articles and go to the Research Monograph link where some of the particularly relevant papers are available on-line, although others would need to be ordered

Healthfinder
(http://healthfinder.gov)

Kaiser Permanente's website
(http://www.kaiserpermanente.org)

A good place to search for information concerning pediatric care and well-being

Dr. C. Everett Koop's website
(http://www.drkoop.com)

Remember that he was Surgeon General during Clinton's first term; he has a wealth of understandable information on just about any topic in medicine and psychology

Links to Websites related to psychology
Psychweb (http://www.psychweb.com)



Psychcrawler (http://www.psychcrawler.com) a source for limited research



Mayo Health O@sis (http://www.mayoclinic.org)



Medscape (http://www.medscape.com) Free database of medical articles, plus access to medical dictionaries, drug databases, and breaking medical news



Memoryzine (http://www.memoryzine.com) A source for information about memory throughout the lifespan



National Institutes of Health (http://www.nih.gov) Starting point for getting into any subagency of NIH



National Institute of Mental Health (http://www.nimh.nih.gov) Excellent resource for policy statements, NIMH research, grants-



The National Parent Information Network (http://ericps.crc.uiuc.edu/npin)



New England Journal of Medicine (http://www.nejm.org) Abstracts to articles, full text on letters, and commentaries)



New York University Infant Cognition Center (http://www.psych.nyu.edu/infant) NYU's Infant Cognition Center's site presenting current research studies on how babies think. Contact information is provided for parents who are interested in having their children participate in the studies.



Online Psychology Website (http://www.onlinepsych.com/index.html) Links to a variety of different topics



Pediatric Health and Safety Information (http://www.babysdoc.com) Edited and reviewed by board-certified pediatricians. It offers an array of information on development revolving around health and safety issues, but also promotes products for sale.



Project Zero (http://pzweb.harvard.edu) Harvard's Project Zero conducts longitudinal research in adults' and children's learning processes



Scientific American (http://www.sciam.com) General scientific resource



Web MD (http://www.webmd.com) Offers a wide variety of information for the medical profession and for consumers.

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