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We tested the hypothesis, derived from the shifting standards model of stereotyping, that parenthood would polarize judgments of men's and women's job-related ability. One hundred thirty-five attorneys evaluated the resume of a recent law school graduate. The resume depicted the graduate as male or female and as either single or married with two young children. We found that a mother was held to a stricter standard for hiring than either a father or a woman without children. Results suggest earlier research conducted with undergraduates generalizes to professionals (Correll, Benard, & Paik, 2007; Fuegen, Biernat, Haines, & Deaux, 2004). (Contains 1 table.)

Without specific education in online safety and security issues, putting any limitations on access could seem counter to what a librarian is trained to do. At a cybersecurity workshop sponsored by Washington Library Media Association (WLMA) last October, an informal show of hands from attending teacher-librarians uncovered a range of motivations for interest in learning more about cybersecurity. Most were frustrated with setting school policy for Internet access control when they had little training in what to consider. Some defaulted to universal access, and others established criteria for allowing access that ranged from teacher/parent permission to one librarian's elaborate procedure that arose from a bad experience with a student who used a library computer to send a bomb threat that closed the school. Before a catastrophe occurs, it would be prudent to develop a clearly communicated Internet policy that will provide access controls and guide safe student Internet use. This article provides an approach for creating and establishing meaningful policies and directing readers to online resources for cybersecurity literacy that teacher-librarians need to help build effective policies. The discussion begins with a description of the context in which this dilemma arises and concludes with recommendations for some of the things to consider in developing Internet use policies. (Contains 2 tables and 2 figures.)

Four preschoolers with autism participated in the study. Stimulus preference assessments were conducted to identify high and low preferred items, which were then hidden or given to an adult in order to contrive motivation for the information about the location of the items. The first experiment involved the manipulation of motivating operations to evoke the mand "Where is it?" Upon successful acquisition of this initial mand for information, students participated in a second experiment involving the manipulation of a motivating operation to evoke the mand "Who has it?" All participants successfully acquired the ability to mand for information.

In this article, Eric Riedel, Leilani Endicott, Anna Wasescha, and Brandy Goldston describe the scholar-practitioner model that frames ee-learning at Walden University. Traditional approaches to experiential learning emphasize experiences concurrent with or following classroom instruction as a way to make knowledge more meaningful. By contrast, the vast majority of students at Walden University are adults with significant experience in their chosen field already but have chosen an online format to pursue graduate education. The scholar-practitioner model practiced at Walden fits within John Dewey's theories of education and experience by seeking to refine work experience such that current and future professional experience is understood within a wider framework of the public good. Curricular examples are provided on this approach and a content analysis of social change activities self-reported by alumni are examined for evidence of its subsequent impact. (Contains 8 exhibits.)

We taught a four-year-old boy diagnosed with autism and his older brother to engage in four pretend play scenarios using video modeling. The older brother acted in the video models with a typically developing peer. Both the participant and his sibling successfully engaged in the four scenarios during intervention as well as maintenance and generalization probes conducted in their home. This case study illustrated that siblings of children with autism can perform in video models as well as engage in pretend play with their sibling with autism. In addition, the child with autism may benefit from sibling-oriented interventions as indicated by the intervention data and the parent and sibling survey questions presented in the current study.

Objective: The pediatric version of the Short Form of the Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction Questionnaire (PQ-LES-Q) was developed to aid in the assessment of an important aspect of life experience in children and adolescents. Method: The reliability and validity of the PQ-LES-Q was tested using data from a sample of 376 outpatient children (6-11 years old) and adolescents (12-17 years old) with major depressive disorder. Results: The internal consistency coefficients at screening, baseline, and endpoint were high (0.87, 0.90, 0.89, respectively) as was the 1-week test-retest intraclass correlation coefficient of reliability (0.78). The correlations of the PQ-LES-Q total score with concurrent measures of severity of illness were in the moderate range (e.g., Global Clinical Impression of Severity, -0.40; Children's Global Assessment Scale, 0.36; Children's Depression Rating Scale total score, -0.45), as were the correlations with measures of change between baseline and endpoint (e.g., Clinical Global Impression of Severity, -0.34; Children's Global Assessment Scale, 0.33; Children's Depression Rating Scale total score, -0.45). Conclusions: These findings support the use of the PQ-LES-Q as an additional measure of current clinical status and outcome because it taps dimensions that are not covered by the commonly used global severity of illness or symptomatic measures. (Contains 4 tables.)

Objective: Prospective study of well children at risk of bipolarity to identify the frequency and pattern of potentially prodromal symptoms/behaviors for bipolar disorder type I (BPI) disorder. Method: A total of 110 at-risk children with a BPI parent and 112 children with well parents were studied. Ten-year data collection used structured and semistructured annual interviews covering developmental, medical, and behavioral features. Randomized histories for 222 children were submitted blindly for risk rating of bipolarity by a panel of clinicians. Results: Children in the bipolar sample had an overall risk rating of 41% as compared with 16% for control children. Features noted more frequently among the at-risk group were anxious/worried, attention poor/distractible in school, easily excited, hyperalert, mood changes/labile, role impairment in school, somatic complaints, and stubborn/determined. Five additional manic-like behaviors became more evident among at-risk adolescents at the 10-year follow-up: high energy, decreased sleep, problems with thinking/concentration, and excessive and loud talking. Conclusions: The children of a parent with BPI manifested, episodically, miniclusters of potentially prodromal characteristics more frequently than the children of normal controls. None of these children met any of the sets of diagnostic criteria for prepubertal bipolar disorder.

The project taught EWEB staff valuable lessons in planning and implementing an emergency water supply program, as well as in coordinating with public agency partners and drilling new wells inside city limits. In accordance with the plan, EWEB developed a mobile water distribution system (distribution trailers) that can use stored water in reservoirs, existing groundwater wells, treated surface water, and neighboring utility interconnections. Emergency Water Sites Beginning in 2017, EWEB decided to expand its emergency water supply system by establishing permanent water distribution sites using groundwater as the source. [Extracted from the article]

Describes a project trying to implement the nationally developed Curriculum Profile for languages in Australia from the vantage point of three teachers. Notes that the objectives of the project included highlighting teacher perceptions of the strengths and weaknesses of the profile, discovering difficulties experienced by teachers in applying the profile, and suggesting modifications. (Author/CK)

Discusses the works of several authors who successfully depict young women in a realistic light, creating complex, multifaceted, appealing human beings with whose plight all readers can identify. Discusses works by Kathryn Lansky, Hadley Irwin, Brock Cole, Zibby O'Neal, Robin McKinly, Lyll Becerra de Jenkins, and Suzanne Fisher. (PRA)

• Behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) are common and problematic. • The DICE Approach helps dementia caregivers assess and address BPSD. • We developed training for dementia professionals to implement DICE with caregivers. During the pandemic, the training was converted from in-person to virtual. • In this pilot study, we found that training was satisfactory and effective at increasing knowledge and self-efficacy. Most persons living with dementia (PLWD) exhibit behavioral or psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) over the course of the illness. The DICE Approach (DICE) is a framework that enables caregivers to identify, evaluate, and manage BPSD. This pilot pre-post test study examined the effects of DICE training on dementia care professionals' self-efficacy, knowledge, and attitudes regarding care of patients with BPSD. Participants underwent either in-person DICE training or, during the pandemic, online training. Case consultations were offered as additional learning opportunities in challenging situations. Of 134 participants in the trainings, 122 (91.0%) provided survey data for one or more instruments before and after training. Participants experienced significant improvement in knowledge and attitudes with respect to BPSD and improvement in self-efficacy with respect to helping caregivers respond to BPSD. Training dementia care professionals in DICE can improve their capacity to support caregivers in the management of BPSD. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article features the response to the important commentary by Dr. Carlson. The Amish Study represents, as she notes, a special research population for investigation of "classic" bipolar disorder viewed against a homogeneous cultural landscape where emerging biological and behavioral prodromal features can be identified. Dr. Carlson questions "where are the bipolar offspring?" and suggests that this "should have been the thrust of this publication." The authors submit that their emphasis should not have focused on illness onset and morbid risk. This would have diverted them from their goal to report prospective data on characteristics and/or possible prodromal patterns before onset. In this article, the authors address Dr. Carlson's title question and clarify other equally important issues in the commentary.

The population genetics of the Indian subcontinent is central to understanding early human prehistory due to its strategic location on the proposed corridor of human movement from Africa to Australia during the late Pleistocene. Previous genetic research using mtDNA has emphasized the relative isolation of the late Pleistocene colonizers, and the physically isolated Andaman Island populations of Island South-East Asia remain the source of claims supporting an early split between the populations that formed the patchy settlement pattern along the coast of the Indian Ocean. Using whole-genome sequencing, combined with multiplexed SNP typing, this study investigates the deep structure of mtDNA haplogroups M31 and M32 in India and the Andaman Islands. The identification of a so far unnoticed rare polymorphism shared between these two lineages suggests that they are actually sister groups within a single haplogroup, M31'32. The enhanced resolution of M31 allows for the inference of a more recent colonization of the Andaman Islands than previously suggested, but cannot reject the very early peopling scenario. We further demonstrate a widespread overlap of mtDNA and cultural markers between the two major language groups of the Andaman archipelago. Given the 'completeness' of the genealogy based on whole genome sequences, and the multiple scenarios for the peopling of the Andaman Islands sustained by this inferred genealogy, our study hints that further mtDNA based phylogeographic studies are unlikely to unequivocally support any one of these possibilities. KEY WORDS: human migratipn; phylogeography; Jarawa; Munda; Pauri bhuiya; India