Overview
Examines effects of political violence and armed conflict on youth development worldwide
Analyzes literature on youth adjustment in contexts of political violence and armed conflicts using a four-tiered developmental psychopathology framework
Emphasizes importance of process-oriented, longitudinal research from a social-ecological perspective
Encourages links between basic and process-oriented translational research
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Aggression, children, war
- Bronfenbrenner, child development, political violence
- Child mental health and well-being
- Civil war and child development
- Communities, armed conflict, political violence
- Coping strategies and children affected by war
- Depression, youth, political violence
- Developmental psychopathology, violence, children
- Family dynamics and political violence
- Intergroup tensions and armed conflicts
- International conflicts and child development
- Longitudinal research, youth, armed conflicts
- Prevention and intervention, armed conflict, youth
- Prosocial behavior, children, armed conflicts
- Research designs, youth outcomes, armed conflict
- Resilience and children affected by war
- Social ecology and political violence
- Social identity, political violence, youth
- Translational research, children, war
- Youth, political violence, and armed conflict
About this book
Topics featured in this book include:
- Analysis of major research on youths’ normative and pathological development during political violence and war.
- Guidelines for assessing research studies on the impact of political violence and armed conflict on youth.
- The effects of social ecology factors (e.g., family, school, and community) on youth functioning.
- Post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy.
Political Violence, Armed Conflict, and Youth Adjustment is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, clinicians/professionals, and graduate students in the fields of child and school psychology, family studies, and public health as well as developmental psychology, child and adolescent psychiatry, political science, anthropology, social and peace psychology, sociology, and ethnic studies.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Christine E. Merrilees, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at the State University of New York at Geneseo. Her research uses developmental and social psychological theory with advanced longitudinal methods to assess the impacts of conflict and intergroup divide on youth development. Her work has been published in high impact journals in developmental, clinical, and social psychology, and her current research focuses on ethnic identity and contact processes that impact well-being and intergroup attitudes and behavior.
Laura K. Taylor, Ph.D., is a Lecturer in the School of Psychology with the Centre of Identity and Intergroup Relations at Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. She has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed articles on her research, which uses a developmental intergroup framework to study risk and resilience processes related to the impact of political violence on children, families, and communities. Her more recent work has focused on constructive outcomes and positive youth development.
Christina F. Mondi, M.A., is a graduate research fellow of the National Science Foundation and a doctoral student in Developmental Psychopathology and Clinical Science at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests are in socio-emotional processes underlying normal development and the development of psychopathology, and in school- and family-based early childhood interventions.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Political Violence, Armed Conflict, and Youth Adjustment
Book Subtitle: A Developmental Psychopathology Perspective on Research and Intervention
Authors: E. Mark Cummings, Christine E. Merrilees, Laura K. Taylor, Christina F. Mondi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51583-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51582-3Published: 23 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84690-3Published: 21 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51583-0Published: 15 March 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 115
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Child and School Psychology, Family, Public Health