Thanks for all the answers and support; I wasn’t looking as much for actual answers to my situation than to general method on how to dive into a new field, but I do appreciate them. Some of the advices were things I already was doing, but I’m glad to have confirmation I was on the right tracks. Other advices were new and interesting, I’ll see how to try them.
I don’t want to give too much details on a public site (it’s not like my “kilobug” pseudonym is very stealthy, to start), so some advice don’t apply to that specific case, but thanks anyway. (Note : I don’t mind giving more details in private if one of you has knowledge and the topic and the time to answer me, I would appreciate it a lot, but it wasn’t my goal).
For the more general question, I did have a look on PLoS (as suggested), and I did find interesting studies in absolute, but most studies aren’t really helpful to actually deal with the child. So I was more looking to comprehensive books, textbook or popsci, that summarize and collects studies, giving practical insights and advises. I did order the “psychology” textbook suggested by MIT, thanks for pragmatic for linking me to it, I’ll see how much that’ll help me to do further research.
Thanks for all the answers and support; I wasn’t looking as much for actual answers to my situation than to general method on how to dive into a new field, but I do appreciate them. Some of the advices were things I already was doing, but I’m glad to have confirmation I was on the right tracks. Other advices were new and interesting, I’ll see how to try them.
I don’t want to give too much details on a public site (it’s not like my “kilobug” pseudonym is very stealthy, to start), so some advice don’t apply to that specific case, but thanks anyway. (Note : I don’t mind giving more details in private if one of you has knowledge and the topic and the time to answer me, I would appreciate it a lot, but it wasn’t my goal).
For the more general question, I did have a look on PLoS (as suggested), and I did find interesting studies in absolute, but most studies aren’t really helpful to actually deal with the child. So I was more looking to comprehensive books, textbook or popsci, that summarize and collects studies, giving practical insights and advises. I did order the “psychology” textbook suggested by MIT, thanks for pragmatic for linking me to it, I’ll see how much that’ll help me to do further research.
Thanks to all anyway!
Possibly helpful older LW posts:
Scholarship: How to Do It Efficiently
Some Heuristics for Evaluating the Soundness of the Academic Mainstream in Unfamiliar Fields
What is bunk?
Scholarship: how to tell good advice from bad advice?