Stress, Risk, and Resilience in Children and Adolescents: Processes, Mechanisms, and Interventions

by Edited by Robert J. Haggerty , Lonnie R. Sherrod , Norman Garmezy , Michael Rutter

• ISBN13: 9780521576628
• ISBN10: 0521576628
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-09-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Stress, Risk, and Resilience in Children and Adolescents recognizes the complexity of the developmental processes that impact on coping and resilience and the importance of sociocultural factors. In this respect, the relation between a stressor and an outcome depends on many factors, including the individual's previous experience, perception of the event, coping skills and social supports. In turn, each of these factors displays meaningful variation by developmental status, social background, and cultural context. The examination of individual differences in vulnerability to stress and risk factors has grown substantially over the past decade as it has become clearer that some children do, in fact, 'beat the odds.' In order to understand why some children succumb to even modest stress while others remain resilient in the face of what appear to be overwhelming stressors, research has increasingly examined the processes and mechanisms by which children of different ages deal with adverse life experiences, rather than merely studying the stressors themselves. Many problem behaviors have multiple causes, and most children with one problem behavior also have others. The co-occurrence and/or interrelatedness of risk factors and problem behaviors is, therefore, an important area of research.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	ix
List of tables and figures	xi
Preface	xiii
Robert J. Haggerty
Lonnie R. Sherrod
Acknowledgments	xxiii
Reflections and commentary on risk, resilience, and development	1	(18)
Norman Garmezy
Context and process in research on risk and resilience	19	(45)
Susan Gore
John Eckenrode
Parental divorce and children's well-being: A focus on resilience	64	(36)
Robert E. Emery
Rex Forehand
Mechanisms and processes of adolescent bereavement	100	(47)
David C. Clark
Robert S. Pynoos
Ann E. Goebel
Risk, resilience, and development: The multiple ecologies of black adolescents in the United States	147	(35)
Saundra Murray Nettles
Joseph H. Pleck
The stress-illness association in children: A perspective from the biobehavioral interface	182	(43)
Ronald G. Barr
W. Thomas Boyce
Lonnie K. Zeltzer
Child and adolescent depression: Covariation and comorbidity in development	225	(43)
Bruce E. Compas
Constance L. Hammen
The school-based promotion of social competence: Theory, research, practice, and policy	268	(49)
The Consortium on the School-based Promotion of Social Competence
Intervention research: Lessons from research on children with chronic disorders	317	(37)
I. Barry Pless
Ruth E. K. Stein
Stress research: Accomplishments and tasks ahead	354	(33)
Michael Rutter
Appendix A: Multidisciplinary consortia	387	(4)
Name index	391	(14)
Subject index	405