How does stress affect the coping abilities of children? Is response to stress a matter of nature, nurture, or both? Is stress good, bad, or neutral?
From a multiplicity of viewpoints, twelve eminent researchers and clinicians here examine the problems of stress in children. Considering stress from a neurochemical as well as a developmental perspective, they examine a wide range of specific stressors including prematurity, hospitalization, birth of a sibling, deprivation, death of a parent, divorce, and war. "Stress, Coping, and Development in Children" is a work of signal importance to psychologists and to every mental health professional involved with infants and children.
How does stress affect the coping abilities of children? Is response to stress a matter of nature, nurture, or both? Is stress good, bad, or neutral?
From a multiplicity of viewpoints, twelve eminent researchers and clinicians here examine the problems of stress in children. Considering stress from a neurochemical as well as a developmental perspective, they examine a wide range of specific stressors including prematurity, hospitalization, birth of a sibling, deprivation, death of a parent, divorce, and war. "Stress, Coping, and Development in Children" is a work of signal importance to psychologists and to every mental health professional involved with infants and children.
Editors' Preface
Foreword
Chapter 1. Stress, Coping, and Development: Some Issues and
Questions
Chapter 2. Stressors of Childhood
Chapter 3. Neurochemical Aspects of Stress
Chapter 4. A Psychobiological Approach to the Ontogeny of
Coping
Chapter 5. Social Ecology and Childbirth: The Newborn Nursery as
Environmental Stressor
Chapter 6. Stress in Infancy: Toward Understanding the Origins of
Coping Behavior
Chapter 7. Stress and Coping in Early Development
Chapter 8. Social-Emotional Development and Response to
Stressors
Chapter 9. Stress: A Change Agent for Family Process
Chapter 10. Children of Divorce: Stress and Developmental Tasks
Chapter 11. Utilization of Stress and Coping Research: Issues of
Public Education and Public Policy
Chapter 12. Some Methodological Problems and Research Directions in
the Study of the Effects of Stress on Children
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Index
Norman Garmezy, Ph.D., is professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota. Michael Rutter, M.D., is professor of cild psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London.
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