Resilience in Children, Volume 1094

by Lester, Barry M.; Masten, Ann; McEwen, Bruce S.

• ISBN13: 9781573316439
• ISBN10: 1573316431
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-14
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

How are children who have experienced adversity able to function competently? Why do some children appear to be resilient?These fascinating, complex, and puzzling questions have been studied mostly from a behavioral and psychosocial perspective. Advances in neuroscience provide the opportunity to bring neurobiology to the study of resilience and to ask whether our knowledge of neurobiological processes and mechanisms can contribute to our understanding of resilience.The goals of this volume are to examine both the behavioral-psychosocial and neurobiological aspects of resilience and to help move the field toward a model that integrates these two perspectives. The integration of the behavioral-psychosocial aspects with the "new biology" of resilience will provide an unprecedented understanding of processes of development in atypically and typically developing children and will have profound implications for preventive intervention programs.NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional journal subscriptions, please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/nyas.ACADEMY MEMBERS: Please contact the New York Academy of Sciences directly to place your order (www.nyas.org). Members of the New York Academy of Science receive full-text access to the Annals online and discounts on print volumes. Please visit www.nyas.org/membership/main.asp for more information about becoming a member.

Author Biography

Barry M. Lester, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Professor of Pediatrics at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Dr. Lester founded and serves as Director of the Center for the Study of Children at Risk at Brown Alpert Medical School and Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island. Dr. Lester has been a member of NIH study sections and of the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse at NIDA. He is past president of the International Association for Infant Mental Health and the author of more than 200 scientific publications and 16 books.

Table of Contents

Why Resilience?

Overview: Barry M. Lester

Keynote Address: Implications of resilience concepts for scientific understanding: Sir Michael Rutter

Behavioral and Psychosocial Processes - Child Factors

Competence and Resilience in Development

Contributions of Temperament to Buffering and Sensitization Processes in Children's Development

Resilience as an Attribute of the Developmental System: Comments on the Papers of Professors Masten and Wachs

Behavioral and Psychosocial Processes - Family, Relationship and Broader Environmental Factors

Risk, Resiliency, and Gene-Environment Interactions in Rhesus Monkeys

Social Class and Race Disparities in School Readiness: How Can We Close the Gap.

Response

Issues

Conceptual Issues in Studies of Resilience: Past, present, and future research

Biopsychosocial Influences on the Development of Resilience

Response: To be announced

Behavioral and Psychosocial Processes - Prevention

Adolescents' Resilience as a Self-regulatory Process: Promising Themes for Linking Intervention with Developmental Science

Promoting Resilience Children and Youth: Preventive Interventions and Their Interface with Neuroscience

Prevention Approaches to Enhance Resilience among High-risk Youth

Neurobiological Processes - Emotion Regulation

Behavioral Differences in Aggressive Children Linked with Neural Mechanisms of Emotion Regulation

Discussion of Marc D. Lewis Presentation "Behavioral Differences in Aggressive Children Linked with Neural Mechanisms with Developmental Science" and Michael Davis Presentation "The Role of Opiate Receptors in the Medial Nucleus of the Amygdala (Mea) in Conditioned Fear Measured with Fear Potentiated Startle"

Neurobiological Processes - Genetics

Genetic and Environmental Influences on the Development of Alcoholism: Resilience Versus Risk

Response: Kathleen Ries Merikangas

Neurobiological Processes - Neuroendocrine

Stress and the Adolescent Brain

Effects of a Therapeutic Intervention for Foster Children on Behavior Problems, Caregiver Attachment, and Stress Regulatory Neural Systems

Response

Neuroscience and Intervention

Prevention of Pediatric Bipolar Disorder: Integration of Psychosocial and Neurobiological Processes: Kiki Chang

Integration and Wrap-Up

Roundtable Discussion Moderator

A Multiple-Levels-of-Analysis Perspective on Resilience: Implications for the Developing Brain and Neural Plasticity: Dante Cicchetti

The Evolutionary Basis of Adaptation in Resilience and Vulnerability: A Response to Cicchetti and Blender

Poster Papers

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