Resilience and vulnerability : adaptation in the context of childhood adversities / edited by Suniya S. Luthar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Luthar, Suniya S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Resilience (Personality trait) in children.

Adaptability (Psychology) in children.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 574 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Contents:

1 A Resilience Framework for Research, Policy, and Practice / Ann S. Masten, Jenifer L. Powell 1

Part I Familial Adversities: Parental Psychopathology and Family Processes

2 Young Children with Mentally Ill Parents: Resilient Developmental Systems / Ronald Seifer 29

3 Risk and Protective Factors for Children of Depressed Parents / Constance Hammen 50

4 Resilience and Vulnerability among Sons of Alcoholics: Relationship to Developmental Outcomes between Early Childhood and Adolescence / Robert A. Zucker, Maria M. Wong, Leon I. Puttler, Hiram E. Fitzgerald 76

5 Maternal Drug Abuse versus Other Psychological Disturbances: Risks and Resilience among Children / Suniya S. Luthar, Karen D'Avanzo, Sarah Hites 104

6 Resilience to Childhood Adversity: Results of a 21-Year Study / David M. Fergusson, L. John Horwood 130

7 Sequelae of Child Maltreatment: Vulnerability and Resilience / Kerry E. Bolger, Charlotte J. Patterson 156

8 Risk and Resilience in Children Coping with Their Parents' Divorce and Remarriage / E. Mavis Hetherington, Anne Mitchell Elmore 182

9 Correlational and Experimental Study of Resilience in Children of Divorce and Parentally Bereaved Children / Irwin Sandler, Sharlene Wolchik, Caroline Davis, Rachel Haine, Tim Ayers 213

Part II Exosystemic and Sociodemographic Risks

10 Rethinking Resilience: A Developmental Process Perspective / Tuppett M. Yates, Byron Egeland, L. Alan Sroufe 243

11 Poverty and Early Childhood Adjustment / Elizabeth B. Owens, Daniel S. Shaw 267

12 Emerging Perspectives on Context Specificity of Children's Adaptation and Resilience: Evidence from a Decade of Research with Urban Children in Adversity / Peter A. Wyman 293

13 Holistic Contextual Perspectives on Risk, Protection, and Competence among Low-Income Urban Adolescents / Edward Seidman, Sara Pedersen 318

14 Overcoming the Odds? Adolescent Development in the Context of Urban Poverty / Ana Mari Cauce, Angela Stewart, Melanie Domenech Rodriguez, Bryan Cochran, Joshua Ginzler 343

15 Adaptation among Youth Facing Multiple Risks: Prospective Research Findings / Arnold Sameroff, Leslie Morrison Gutman, Stephen C. Peck 364

16 Positive Adaptation among Youth Exposed to Community Violence / Deborah Gorman-Smith, Patrick H. Tolan 392

17 Perceived Discrimination and Resilience / Laura A. Szalacha, Sumru Erkut, Cynthia Garcia Coll, Jacqueline P. Fields, Odette Alarcon, Ineke Ceder 414

18 Promoting Resilience through Early Childhood Intervention / Arthur J. Reynolds, Suh-Ruu Ou 436

19 Toward Building a Better Brain: Neurobehavioral Outcomes, Mechanisms, and Processes of Environmental Enrichment / W. John Curtis, Charles A. Nelson 463

20 Genetic Influences on Risk and Protection: Implications for Understanding Resilience / Michael Rutter 489

21 Research on Resilience: An Integrative Review / Suniya S. Luthar, Laurel Bidwell Zelazo 510.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521807018

0521001617

OCLC:

50035135

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