Self-Regulation: A Critical Construct in Research and Application with Children and Families

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This special journal issue in Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review focuses on self-regulation as it relates to research and application with children and families. The Guest Co-Editors for this special journal issue are Dr. Stephanie Jones, from the Graduate School of Education and the Center for the Developing Child at Harvard University, and Dr. Matthew Sanders, who directs the Parenting and Family Support Centre at the University of Queensland. The impetus for this special issue stems from the observation that self-regulation is a dominant concept in areas of inquiry related, for example, to child development, parenting, family/school-based interventions, and issues in the implementation of evidence-based programs (EBPs). …