Risk and Resilience

by Borkowski, John G.; Farris, Jaelyn R.; Whitman, Thomas L.; Carothers, Shannon S.; Weed, Keri

• ISBN13: 9780805850550
• ISBN10: 0805850554
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-20
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

In 1984, a longitudinal study was launched at the University of Notre Dame to evaluate the social and psychological consequences of teenage parenting. Interwoven Lives: Adolescent Mothers and Their Children (2001) described, in detail, the development of these adolescent mothers and their children across the first eight years of life. Major delays were first noticed in children's patterns of attachment at age 1 and their IQ and personal adjustment scores at age 3. By age 8, school-related problems were found in 70% of the children. With these data as the backdrop, this companion volume, Risk and Resilience, identifies major risk factors associated with long-term developmental delays as well as the processes that led to resilience in some of the mothers and children. This new volume traces the children's development at ages 8, 10, and 14. The editors focus on identifying risk and protective factors associated with important life course trajectories as the mothers entered early adulthood and their children became adolescents. Relatively unexplored protective factors - such as religiosity, patterns of father involvement, and romantic relationships - were found to positively influence development for both teenage mothers and their children. This new text also addresses: New methodological approaches with an emphasis on the use of hierarchical linear and structural equation modeling and dynamical systems analyses Implications for prevention and intervention programs Intellectual, educational, and socioemotional outcome data The "dark side" of rearing children in poverty The multiple risks related to adolescent parenting and their profound impact on children's development How resilience emerges in children's lives and the specific factors that promote it. Risk and Resilienceappeals to researchers in developmental psychology and family processes as well as agency and government professionals charged with public policy and service delivery.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
Adolescent Mothers and Their Children: Risks, Resilience, and Development	p. 1
The Fate of Adolescent Mothers	p. 35
Children's Uncertain Futures: Problems in School	p. 69
Children's Uncertain Futures: Socioemotional Delays and Psychopathologies	p. 101
Child Maltreatment: Precursors of Developmental Delays	p. 125
Understanding the Cycle: Violence in the Lives of At-Risk Children	p. 151
Resilience and Vulnerability in the Context of Multiple Risks	p. 179
Overcoming the Odds: Protective Factors in the Lives of Children	p. 205
Design and Analytic Approaches to Research on Resilience	p. 233
Toward Resilience: Designing Effective Prevention Programs	p. 259
Author Index	p. 279
Subject Index	p. 291
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