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Steven Holochwost Argues Developmental Science Must Go Beyond Traditional Settings
August 17, 2026
While most children’s environments include a home with primary caregivers and school, children also live in shelters, foster homes, medical facilities, and the juvenile justice system.
A new textbook co-authored by Associate Professor of Psychology Steven Holochwost makes the case that applied developmental science—that is, research on children’s development in the real world—must broaden its scope to include a wider range of participants and environments.
Published by Oxford University Press, Conducting Applied Developmental Science in Diverse Contexts argues that, in addition to working with children from different economic, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds in traditional settings, impactful research must reach kids who may be less visible. “If applied developmental science is to fulfill its promise to improve the lives of children and families, then research needs to happen in diverse contexts, and the lived environments those children and families inhabit,” Holochwost said.
Read the introduction online through Sept. 2.