This continuing series presents original research results on the leading edge of psychology. This book reviews research on the analysis of father's, mother's and adolescent's perceptions of family life; case-based reasoning; metaphorical sentence processing and topic abstractness; correlates of antenatal depression symptomatology among Chinese women; new model for bilingual minds in sociolinguistic variation situations and a method for developing a scale to evaluate maternal psychological status with regard to children's oral care.