Stress, Coping, and Development in Children

by Norman Garmezy (Editor), Michael Rutter (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801836510
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	03/01/1988
Pages:	382
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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