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Poverty and children's adjustment / Suniya S. Luthar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Luthar, Suniya S.
- Series:
- Developmental clinical psychology and psychiatry ; v. 41.
- Developmental clinical psychology and psychiatry series ; v. 41
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adjustment (Psychology) in children--United States.
- Adjustment (Psychology) in children.
- Child psychopathology--United States.
- Child psychopathology.
- Children with social disabilities--United States--Psychology.
- Children with social disabilities.
- Poor children--United States--Psychology.
- Poor children.
- Poverty--United States--Psychological aspects.
- Poverty.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 131 p.).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Children in Poverty provides professionals and academics working in clinical and counselling psychology with an interdisciplinary perspective on the effects on children's development of poverty lack of education and a poor social & economic background.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Editor's Introduction; Preface; Chapter 1 - Introduction; Parameters and Structure; Summary; Notes; Chapter 2 - Child Attributes; Gender Differences in Vulnerability to Familial Stressors; Gender Differences in Vulnerability to Community-Related Influences; Age Differences; Personal Characteristics; Trajectories of Adjustment; Summary; Notes; Chapter 3 - Poverty and the Family: Demographic and Structural Features; Teenage Mothers; Family Structure; Ethnicity; Summary; Notes; Chapter 4 - Poverty and the Family: Psychological Processes
- Poverty and Parents' FunctioningParental Behaviors; Models of Family Functioning in the Context of Poverty; Summary; Notes; Chapter 5 - Exosystemic Influences; Support Networks; The Physical Environment; Neighborhoods; Violence in the Neighborhood; Summary; Chapter 6 - Future Directions; Childhood in Poverty: Directions for Future Inquiry; Interventions; Teaching and Curricula; Summary; Notes; References; Author Index; Subject Index; About the Author
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-114) and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780761905189
- 0761905189
- 9781322416182
- 1322416184
- 9781452265087
- 1452265089
- OCLC:
- 811564136
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