| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 352 pages) |
| Series |
Minnesota symposia on child psychology ; v. 27 |
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Minnesota symposia on child psychology (Series) ; v. 27.
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| Contents |
Trends and directions in studies of developmental risk / Claire B. Kopp -- Synaptogenesis, synapse elimination, and neural plasticity in human cerebral cortex / Peter R. Huttenlocher -- Plasticity and reorganization in neural injury and neural grafting / Elizabeth M. Jansen, Walter C. Low -- Developmental psychopathology of antisocial behavior : inserting genes into its ontogenesis and epigenesis / Irving I. Gottesman, H. Hill Goldsmith -- Why developmental psychology should find room for behavioral genetics / Matt McGue -- Nutritional deficiencies as developmental risk factors / Ernesto Pollitt, Kathleen S. Gorman -- Nutritional deficiencies as developmental risk factors : commentary on Pollitt and Gorman / Michael K. Georgieff -- Development, plasticity, and risk : commentary on Huttenlocher, Pollitt and Gorman, and Gottesman and Goldsmith / Michelle de Haan [and others] |
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The special role of parenting in the context of poverty : the case of adolescent motherhood / Judith S. Musick -- Poverty and adolescent childbearing : the dangers of the 'half empty glass' perspective / Geraldine Kearse Brookins, Anne Marie Benson -- Poverty, violence, and child development : untangling family and community level effects / J. Lawrence Aber -- The role of biological and psychosocial risk factors in development : commentary on Kopp, Musick, and Aber / Marnie Hiester [and others] -- Integrating developmental risk factors : perspectives from developmental psychopathology / Dante Cicchetti |
| Summary |
Psychology's recent immersion in risk research has introduced a new variant in which the focus is not solely on disease, but also on the effects and consequences produced by the multiple aspects of risk on individual adaptation. Variations in such patterns of adaptation signal the entrance of protective factors as an added element to the clinical and research focus in the prediction of positive versus negative outcomes under the duress of stressful experiences. Given psychology's investment in the entire range of human adaptation--embracing severe disorder at one |
| Notes |
This volume represents the papers presented at the 27th Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology, held 22-24 Oct. 1992, at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-325) and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Child development -- Congresses
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Developmentally disabled -- Congresses
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Child Development.
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Child development
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Developmentally disabled
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Ontwikkelingsstoornissen.
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Enfants -- Psychopathologie.
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Enfants -- Développement.
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Enfants atteints de troubles du développement.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nelson, Charles A., III (Charles Alexander)
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Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology (27th : 1992 : University of Minnesota)
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| LC no. |
94013213 |
| ISBN |
9781134783304 |
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1134783302 |
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1299697046 |
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9781299697041 |
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9780203773666 |
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0203773667 |
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1138876453 |
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9781138876453 |
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