Social Research on Children and Adolescents

Joan E. Sieber, a psychologist and Professor Emerita, California State University, East Bay, has specialized in empirical research on questions of scientific ethics, culturally sensitive methods of research and intervention, data sharing methodology, and scholarship on ethical problem solving. In 2001-2002, she was Acting Director of the National Science Foundation program Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science and Technology. She is the author of eight books and numerous other publications including software and encyclopedia entries on ethical problem solving in social and behavioral research.

Introduction - Barbara Stanley and Joan E Sieber The Ethics of Social Research on Children and Adolescents Legal Constraints on Social Research with Children - Judith Areen PART ONE: THE DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESS Developmental Changes in Research Risk and Benefit - Ross A Thompson A Changing Calculus of Concern Respecting Boundaries - Gary B Melton Minors, Privacy and Behavioral Research Autonomy, Beneficence and Child Development - Ruth Macklin An Ethical Analysis PART TWO: THE CONSENT PROCESS Minors' Assent to Behavioral Research Without Parental Consent - Thomas Grisso Assent Processes - Alexander J Tymchuk PART THREE: RESEARCH ON HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR Protecting Children's Rights in AIDS Research - Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus and Cheryl Koopman Community Intervention Research on Minors - Joan E Sieber