Overview
Analyzes the mechanisms involved in the development and adaptation of children
Presents results of research carried out in four Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico
Proposes evidence-based interventions aimed at helping children, adolescents and families facing risk and adversity
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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An Overview of Children’s Development Issues
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Front Matter
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Looking at Adolescent Development from a Systemic Approach
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Child and Adolescence Psychology
- Stress and resilience
- Coping
- Child and adolescent development
- Ecological Systems Theory
- Poverty
- Social vulnerability
- Marginalization
- Discrimination
- Risk Factors
- Family violence
- Psychosocial risk
- Institutionalization
- Mental health
- Well-being
- Psychopathology
- Adversity
- Adaptation
- Homeless children
About this book
The studies gathered in this volume are theoretically grounded on systemic and ecological models which analyze developmental trajectories and outcomes taking into account the interaction of different ecological systems, such as the individual, the family, the school and the wider society. Departing from this theoretical framework, the chapters in this volume analyze the risk factors posed to child and adolescent development by adverse and risky social contexts and present evidence-based interventions aimed at both preventing negative outcomes and helping children and adolescents develop coping strategies to deal with adverse situations, such as poverty and social marginalization.
Child and Adolescent Development in Risky Adverse Contexts: A Latin American Perspective will be of interest to developmental, clinical, health, and educational psychologists, as well as social workers, directly working or doing research with children and adolescents in situations of social vulnerability.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Blanca E. Barcelata Eguiarte is a Full-Time Professor in the Department of Psychology and in the Graduate Program in Psychology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She holds a master's degree in Clinical Psychology and a PhD in Psychology and Health from the same institution, and is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) in Mexico. Dr. Barcelata-Eguiarte is the leader of the Adolescence, Health and Family Project in UNAM’s Faculty of Higher Studies Zaragoza, and founder of the Adolescents and Family Community Program at UNAM’s University Health Care Clinic. Her research focuses on vulnerability, adaptation, and resilience of adolescents and families to multiple adverse contexts in high-risk populations, with a special emphasis in stress, coping, social support, personality, and regulation processes. She is member of Stress, Trauma, Anxiety, and Resilience, Society since 2006.
Paloma Suárez Brito holds a PhD in Experimental Psychology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), as well as postdoctoral studies in Educational Psychology from the same university. She currently collaborates in different research projects in Mexico and USA about infant psychology and prevention of mental disorders at the Baby Lab at the Faculty of Psychology, UNAM, the Children’s Psychiatric Hospital “Juan N. Navarro”, and the National Institute of Psychiatry “Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz” in Mexico City; and at the Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, USA. Her research examines child development, language acquisition and attitudes toward mental health in parents and children, with special emphasis in typical - atypical population comparisons. She is currently Full Time Professor at the Latin American University (ULA) and a member of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Child and Adolescent Development in Risky Adverse Contexts
Book Subtitle: A Latin American Perspective
Editors: Blanca Estela Barcelata Eguiarte, Paloma Suárez Brito
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83700-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83699-3Published: 12 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-83702-0Published: 13 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-83700-6Published: 01 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 247
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: Developmental Psychology