Uprooting and Development

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxviii

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2. Coping with the Inner and Outer Worlds of Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-3

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   2. Contemporary Uprootings and Collaborative Coping: Behavioral and Societal Responses

      • George V. Coelho, Ying-Ying T. Yuan, Paul I. Ahmed

      Pages 5-18

   3. Change, Vulnerability, and Coping: Stresses of Uprooting and Overcrowding

      • George V. Coelho, Jane J. Stein

      Pages 19-40

   4. Identity, Politics, Planning: On Some Uses of Knowledge in Coping with Social Change

      • Richard Harvey Brown

      Pages 41-66

   5. Stress, Strain, and Role Adaptation: Conceptual Issues

      • Marc Fried

      Pages 67-96

3. Meanings and Impacts of Uprooting

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-99

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   2. The Uprooting of Meaning

      • Peter Marris

      Pages 101-116

   3. Uprooting and Self-Image: Catastrophe and Continuity

      • Kurt W. Back

      Pages 117-130

   4. Sociological Dimensions of Uprootedness

      • Edward A. Tiryakian

      Pages 131-152

   5. The Long-Term Sequelae of Uprooting: Conceptual and Practical Issues

      • Maria Pfister-Ammende

      Pages 153-173

4. Stressful Situations of Children and Adolescents in Transition: The Role of Attachments and Social Supports

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-178

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   2. Young Children in Stressful Situations: The Supporting Role of Attachment Figures and Unfamiliar Caregivers

      • Inge Bretherton

      Pages 179-210

   3. Relocation and the Family: A Crisis in Adolescent Development

      • Elaine Ruth Goldberg

      Pages 211-231

   4. Coming Home: Adjustment of Americans to the United States after Living Abroad

      • Sidney L. Werkman

      Pages 233-247

   5. Running Away in America: The History and the Hope

      • James S. Gordon

      Pages 249-266

5. Stressful Situations of Foreign Students: Challenges of Cross-Cultural Education

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 267-270

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   2. Stressful Experiences of Foreign Students at Various Stages of Sojourn: Counseling and Policy Implications

      • Otto Klineberg

      Pages 271-293

   3. Role Learning as a Coping Strategy for Uprooted Foreign Students

      • Paul B. Pedersen

      Pages 295-319

   4. Research on Students from Abroad: The Neglected Policy Implications

      • Seth Spaulding, George V. Coelho

      Pages 321-339

Uprooting has to do with one of the fundamental properties of human life-the need to change-and with the personal and societal mecha­ nisms for dealing with that need. As with the more general problems of change, uprooting can be a time of human disaster and desolation, or a time of adaptation and growth into new capacities. The special quality of uprooting is that the need to change is faced at a time of separation from accustomed social, cultural, and environ­ mental support systems. It is this separation from familiar supports that either renders the uprooted vulnerable to the destructive conse­ quences of change, or creates freedoms for their evolution into new and constructive patterns of life. Whether the outcomes will be destruc­ tive or constructive will be determined by the forces at work: the nature and power of the uprooting forces versus the personal and societal capacities for coping with them. Uprooting events are so widespread as to be compared with the major rites of life, but with the difference that dislocation is involved. Uprooting reaches from self-imposed movements such as rural-to­ urban migration, running away, and traveling abroad for schooling, to natural and man-made disasters such as earthquakes, political oppres­ sion, and war. The impacts vary from the need to adapt to. a new culture for an interim period of study to the desolating consequences of the total loss of family, friends, home, and country.

• adaptation
• coping
• counseling
• development
• evolution
• growth
• migration
• outcome
• quality
• travel

• National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville, USA

  George V. Coelho

• Department of Health and Human Services, U.S Office of International Health, Rockville, USA

  Paul I. Ahmed

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