In this paper, the thematic trends in poster presentations for early and middle childhood are first overviewed in the Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Educational Psychology.Next, an over view of papers on issues of children's social skills and caregivers' involvements is given, which were the topics often addressed in the poster presentations. In particular, the target articles pub-
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