Featured Reports in the Behavioral Sciences

The reports featured on this page are representative of the wide variety of reports on the behavioral sciences that the National Academies produces. Please see the following links for DBASSE’s most recent reports or a listing of all reports.

	Depression in Parents, Parenting, and Children highlights disparities in the prevalence, identification, treatment, and prevention of parental depression among different sociodemographic populations. It also outlines strategies for effective intervention and identifies the need for a more interdisciplinary approach that takes biological, psychological, behavioral, interpersonal, and social contexts into consideration.
	Adolescent Health Services: Missing Opportunities This book examines the health status of adolescents and reviews the separate and uncoordinated programs and services delivered in multiple public and private health care settings.
	Behavioral Modeling and Simulation: From Individuals to Societies This book reviews relevant individual, organizational, and societal (IOS) modeling research programs, evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the programs and their methodologies, determines which have the greatest potential for military use, and provides guidance for the design of a research program to effectively foster the development of IOS models useful to the military.
	Early Childhood Assessment: Why, What, and How This book affirms that assessments can make crucial contributions to the improvement of children's well-being, but only if they are well designed, implemented effectively, developed in the context of systematic planning, and are interpreted and used appropriately
	The Polygraph and Lie Detection reviews the data about the use of the polygraph in criminal investigation, employment screening, and national security. The report concludes that the federal government should not rely on polygraph examinations for screening prospective or current employees to identify spies or other national-security risks, because the test results are too inaccurate for this purpose.
	Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and Possibilities This book updates a 1994 Institute of Medicine book, Reducing Risks for Mental Disorders, focusing special attention on the research base and program experience with younger populations that have emerged since that time.
	Technology for Adaptive Aging This book is the product of a workshop to discuss applications of technology to communication, education and learning, employment, health, living environments, and transportation for older adults. It includes all of the workshop papers and the report of the committee that organized the workshop
	Human Behavior in Military Contexts This report describes the most promising research topics for meeting military needs in the near term. It surveys the work done in recent years, and work now under way, to assess what topics and fields hold the most promise for assisting the military in the complex missions of the 21st century.