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Online Casebook

Bearer, Cynthia F. “Environmental Health Hazards: How Children Are Different from

Adults.” The Future of Children, vol. 5, no. 2, 1995, p. 11., doi:10.2307/1602354.

“Environmental Health Hazards: How Children Are Different from Adults” by

Cynthia Bearer proves how children react differently than adults to environmental

contaminants. This article says that children are among the most vulnerable members

of the human population. It defines the three different types of environment: physical,

biological, and social. It also describes the five stages of development for a child:

newborn, infant/toddler, preschool, school-age, and adolescent. The older the child

gets, the more places they begin to discover. As an infant they spend most of their time

in a crib, but as they get older they begin to explore other spaces. This article was

written to inform people on the importance of the environment that a child experiences.

The author of this article is Cynthia Bearer. I know that she is a credible source on this

topic because she is a professor of Neonatology with tenure for the University of

Maryland and is also a pediatrician in Maryland. I will use this source mostly to help with

the importance of the physical and biological environment of a child’s development.

Bradley, Robert H, and Robert F Corwyn. “Socioeconomic Status and Child

Development.” Annual Reviews, Feb. 2002,

www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.psych.53.100901.135233.
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“Socioeconomic Status and Child Development” by Robert H. Bradley and

Robert F. Corwyn proves the relationship between socioeconomic status and the

cognitive and socioemotional outcomes in children. Socioeconomic status has an effect

on children before they are even born. Each of the different socioeconomic statuses

have a different amount of access to materials the child may need and different levels of

stress-inducing problems. The writer’s purpose for this article is to inform others on how

the socioeconomic status of a family affects the child. The authors for this article are

Robert H. Bradley and Robert F. Corwyn. I know that Bradley is credible because he is

a developmental psychologist and is a professor at Arizona State University as well as

the director of the Center for Child and Family Success. Corwyn is also credible

because he works in the psychology department at the University of Arkansas at Little

Rock. I will use this article to help me prove the importance of one’s socioeconomic

status on a child’s development.

Case, Anna, et al. “The Lasting Impact of Childhood Health and Circumstance.” Journal

of Health Economics, vol. 24, no. 2, Sept. 2004, doi:10.1002/hec.v13:12.

“The Lasting Impact of Childhood Health and Circumstance” by Anna Case and

others proves that socioeconomic status has an effect on child development through
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statistics. The statistics show the difference of a child being born into a poor family and

into a wealthy family. They show the difference of child development from birth to

middle-age. The purpose of this article is to show evidence of the relationship between

socioeconomic status and how a child develops throughout their life. The author of this

journal is Anna Case. She and the others who wrote this journal with her are all credible

sources because of their background in ecology. I will use this information to support

the socioeconomic effect on child development from the previous article.

Cicchetti, Dante, and Sheree L Toth. “Child Maltreatment.” Annual Reviews, 5 Oct.

2004,

www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.clinpsy.1.102803.144029.

“Child Maltreatment” by Dante Cicchetti and Sheree L. Toth that describes how

child maltreatment can have a negative effect on a child’s development. It talks about

the different aspects of maltreatment and how they change a child’s development. The
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purpose of this article is to inform the audience of the existence of child maltreatment

and how it will change a child in the long run. Dante Cicchetti is a qualified, and

therefore credible, source because he is a scientist that specializes in developmental

psychology and psychopathology. I know that Sheree L. Toth is a credible source

because she is a professor of psychology at the University of Rochester who talks about

services for abused and neglected children. I will use this source to prove how a child is

treated in the environment they live in affects them.

Evans, Gary W. “Child Development and the Physical Environment.” Annual Reviews,

10 Jan. 2006,

www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.psych.57.102904.190057.

Gauvain, Mary, and Michael Cole. Readings on the Development of Children. Worth,

2009.

Weinstein, Carol Simon., and Thomas G. David. Spaces for Children: The Built

Environment and Child Development. Plenum P., 1987.