- Harvard University
The lab for developmental studies at Harvard University concentrates its work on the stages of infancy and early childhood, in order to evaluate how children perceive and understand the world around them. Studies are continuosly carried out with the help of parents and children for the research of individual developmental stages of infants and very small children.
These studies are supported and sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Child Health and Development.

- University of New York
http://www.med.nyu.edu/patientcare/library/article.html?ChunkIID=14351
http://www.aboutourkids.org/
http://www.med.nyu.edu/psych
The New York University Child Study Center is devoted to the increasing awareness in regard to the mental misfunctions in children and adults. It specializes primarily in improved research studies for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of these problems on a national level.
The New York Child Study Center is one of only 2 independent centers for child and adult psychiatry in the USA.

- University of California, Berkeley
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/content/xr7v95t357522272/
http://iber.berkeley.edu/
The Harold E. Jones Child Study Center is a research, teaching and training center department of the Institute for Human Development at the University of California in Berkeley. The Child Study Center has a worldwide reputation as a model laboratory school, which distinguishes itself by the integration of research on children and families with a continuous work program for pre-school age children.

- Brown University, Providence, Richmond
The Child Study Center was founded in 1967. Until 1974, information was collected on 50,000 children from birth to the age of 8.
Lewis Lipsitt was the co-founder of the Child Development Study, which observed 4,000 children from birth. He started a program on infant behavior and development and a training program for students in experimental child psychology.

- John Hopkins Children Center, Baltimore, Maryland
Researchers at the John Hopkins Children Center are among the pioneers with regard to molecular genetics. Research results, which study and analyze manipulated genes, show a new generation of never before seen medical advances.

- Stanford University, California
http://childpsychiatry.stanford.edu/
The vision of the Stanford Division for child and adult psychiatry and child development distinguishes itself by making available a leading position in the field of children and adult mental health by integrated research, clinical examples and training.

- Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
The Bendheim Thoman Center for research for the well-being of children supports two initiatives: the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a research project; as well as the Future of Children, a magazine for researchers, developers, etc.
The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study refers to a long-range study which observes 5,000 children who were born in the USA at the end of the 20th century. The study presents information regarding the possibilities and relations with parents, especially with unmarried parents; as well as the effect of parental means (money), and public guidelines for the well being of children.
The Future of Children Project attempts to promote effective guidelines and programs for children by supplying decision makers and the media with current objective information, based on existing research on the subject.

LINKS EUROPE

- University of Toulouse – Le Mirail (France)
The Department for Developmental Psychology and Socialization Processes (PDPS)

The program of this department at the University of Toulouse is divided into four areas. One of these is devoted to small children:

• Families in precarious socio-economic situations and the socio-emotional development of small children
• The three-sided interaction between the mother-child and caregiver in day care

- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Göttingen University (Germany)
Under the direction of Prof. Rothenberger, the main emphasis of the research of the department lies, on the one hand, with providing care, and on the other, with developmental psychopathologies, as well as the neurobiological background of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders. The primary concern is to clear up the relationship between brain functions and the behavior of children with

• Tic disorders
• Compulsive disorders and
• Hyperkinetic disorder/ADMS

Cooperation with other departments of the university in this regard has already been initiated.

- Clinic and outpatient clinic for psychiatry and psychotherapy for children and adolescents of the University of Cologne (Germany)
The clinic maintains one institute outpatient department with various areas of concentration, inpatient areas with one child station, three adolescent stations, one parent-child station, as well as a child day clinic. In cooperation with the AKIP educational institution, there is also an outpatient behavioral therapy component.
The children’s station is divided into two groups. Children from ages 5 to 12 are accepted (even younger children in exceptional cases). Capacity: 12 patients.
The station is suited for patients for whom there are diagnostic or therapeutic orders that cannot be fulfilled in an outpatient or partial inpatient setting. The parents (or other bonding persons) are closely involved in the diagnostics and treatment. Provisions for schooling are provided.

Frequent reasons for the acceptance of children:

• Fear disorders (separation anxiety, school avoidance, fear of school, etc.)
• Compulsive disorders
• Posttraumatic stress disorders
• Autistic disorders
• Extreme screaming, sleeping, eating or bonding disorders
• Parent-child interaction disorders

Scientific and clinical focus:

• Development and evaluation of diagnostic procedures
• Development and evaluation of psychotherapeutic methods
• Epidemiology of psychic disorders
• Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO) – quality of life
• Pathogenesis and progress of psychic disorders
• Pharmacotherapy research
• Prevention research
• Care research and Public Health 

• Psychosocial service
• Physiotherapists
• Educators
• Clinic spiritual care
• Clinic school