Resilience and Vulnerability: Adaptation in the Context of Childhood Adversities

608 Pages·2003·2.12 MB·English

by  Suniya S. Luthar

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ResilienceandVulnerability
AdaptationintheContextofChildhoodAdversities
Childhood resilience is the phenomenon of positive adaptation
despite significant life adversities. While interest in resilience has
burgeoned in recent years, there remains considerable uncertainty
about what exactly research has taught us about this phenomenon.
Integratedinthisbookarecontributionsfromleadingscientistswho
haveeachstudiedchildren’sadjustmentacrossriskscommonincon-
temporary society. Chapters in the first half of the book focus on
risks emanating from the family; chapters in the second half focus
onrisksstemmingfromthewidercommunity.Allcontributorshave
explicitlyaddressedacommonsetofcorethemes,includingthecri-
teriatheyusedtojudgeresiliencewithinparticularrisksettings,the
major factors that predict resilience in these settings, the limits to
resilience (vulnerabilities coexisting with manifest success), and di-
rectionsforinterventions.Intheconcludingchapter,theeditorinte-
gratesevidencepresentedthroughoutallprecedingchapterstodistill
(a)substantiveconsiderationsforfutureresearchand(b)salientdi-
rectionsforinterventionsandsocialpoliciesbasedonaccumulated
researchknowledge.
Suniya S. Luthar is Professor of Psychology and Education at
TeachersCollege,ColumbiaUniversity.SheistheauthorofChildren
in Poverty: Risk and Protective Forces in Adjustment (1999) and the
coeditor of Developmental Psychopathology: Perspectives on Adjustment,
Risk, and Disorder (1997). Dr. Luthar is Associate Editor of the
journalDevelopmentandPsychopathologyandhasbeenamemberofthe
editorialboardsofbothChildDevelopmentandDevelopmentalPsychology.
Professional awards include a Dissertation Award from APA’s Divi-
sion 37 (Child, Youth, & Family Services; 1990), a K–21 Research
Scientist Development Award from the National Institute on Drug
Abuse (1993–1998), an American Mensa Education and Research
FoundationAwardforExcellenceinResearchonIntelligence(1995),
andaBoydMcCandlessYoungScientistAwardfromAPA’sDivision7
(DevelopmentalPsychology,1998).

Resilience and Vulnerability
Adaptation in the Context of Childhood Adversities
Edited by
SUNIYA S. LUTHAR
TeachersCollege,ColumbiaUniversity
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Contents
ListofContributors pagexi
ForewordbyDanteCicchetti xix
Preface xxix
1 AResilienceFrameworkforResearch,Policy,andPractice 1
AnnS.MastenandJeniferL.Powell
part i familial adversities: parental
psychopathology and family processes
2 YoungChildrenwithMentallyIllParents:Resilient
DevelopmentalSystems 29
RonaldSeifer
3 RiskandProtectiveFactorsforChildrenof
DepressedParents 50
ConstanceHammen
4 ResilienceandVulnerabilityamongSonsofAlcoholics:
RelationshiptoDevelopmentalOutcomesbetweenEarly
ChildhoodandAdolescence 76
RobertA.Zucker,MariaM.Wong,LeonI.Puttler,and
HiramE.Fitzgerald
5 MaternalDrugAbuseversusOtherPsychological
Disturbances:RisksandResilienceamongChildren 104
SuniyaS.Luthar,KarenD’Avanzo,andSarahHites
6 ResiliencetoChildhoodAdversity:Resultsofa
21-YearStudy 130
DavidM.FergussonandL.JohnHorwood
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viii Contents
7 SequelaeofChildMaltreatment:Vulnerability
andResilience 156
KerryE.BolgerandCharlotteJ.Patterson
8 RiskandResilienceinChildrenCopingwithTheir
Parents’DivorceandRemarriage 182
E.MavisHetheringtonandAnneMitchellElmore
9 CorrelationalandExperimentalStudyofResiliencein
ChildrenofDivorceandParentallyBereavedChildren 213
IrwinSandler,SharleneWolchik,CarolineDavis,
RachelHaine,andTimAyers
part ii exosystemic and sociodemographic risks
10 RethinkingResilience:ADevelopmental
ProcessPerspective 243
TuppettM.Yates,ByronEgeland,andL.AlanSroufe
11 PovertyandEarlyChildhoodAdjustment 267
ElizabethB.OwensandDanielS.Shaw
12 EmergingPerspectivesonContextSpecificityof
Children’sAdaptationandResilience:Evidencefroma
DecadeofResearchwithUrbanChildreninAdversity 293
PeterA.Wyman
13 HolisticContextualPerspectivesonRisk,Protection,and
CompetenceamongLow-IncomeUrbanAdolescents 318
EdwardSeidmanandSaraPedersen
14 OvercomingtheOdds?AdolescentDevelopmentinthe
ContextofUrbanPoverty 343
AnaMariCauce,AngelaStewart,MelanieDomenechRodriguez,
BryanCochran,andJoshuaGinzler
15 AdaptationamongYouthFacingMultipleRisks:
ProspectiveResearchFindings 364
ArnoldSameroff,LeslieMorrisonGutman,andStephenC.Peck
16 PositiveAdaptationamongYouthExposed
toCommunityViolence 392
DeborahGorman-SmithandPatrickH.Tolan
17 PerceivedDiscriminationandResilience 414
LauraA.Szalacha,SumruErkut,CynthiaGarc´ıaColl,Jacqueline
P.Fields,OdetteAlarco´n,andInekeCeder
18 PromotingResiliencethroughEarly
ChildhoodIntervention 436
ArthurJ.ReynoldsandSuh-RuuOu