Families count
Subtitle: effects on child and adolescent development
By: edited by Alison Clarke-Stewart, Judy Dunn.
Contributors: Clarke-Stewart, Alison, 1943-; Dunn, Judy, 1939-
Series: The Jacobs Foundation series on adolescence
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9780521847537; 9780521612296
Subjects: Child psychology; Adolescent psychology; Family -- Psychological aspects
Description: This book is concerned with the question of how families matter in young people's development--a question of obvious interest and importance to a wide range of readers, which has serious policy implication. A series of key current topics concerning families are examined by the top international scholars in the field, including the key risks affecting children, individual differences in their resilience, links between families and peers, the connections between parental work and children's family lives, the impact of childcare, divorce, and parental separation, grandparents, and new family forms such as lesbian and surrogate mother families. The latest research findings are brought together with discussion of policy issues raised.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How families matter in child development: reflections from research on risk and resilience / Ann S. Masten and Anne Shaffer; title: The promotion of resilience in the face of adversity / Michael Rutter; title: Identifying risk and protective factors for healthy child development / Arnold Sameroff; title: The influence of family and peer relationships in the development of competence during adolescence / W. Andrew Collins and Glenn I. Roisman; title: Toward a dynamic developmental model of the role of parents and peers in early onset substance use / Kenneth A. Dodge ... [et al.]; title: Mothers and fathers at work: implications for families and children / Ann C. Crouter; title: The family-child care mesosystem / Kathleen McCartney; title: Marital discord, divorce, and children's well-being: results from a 20-year longitudinal study of two generations / Paul R. Amato; title: The influence of conflict, marital problem solving, and parenting on children's adjustment in nondivorced, divorced, and remarried families / E. Mavis Hetherington; title: Adolescents' development in high-conflict and separated families: evidence from a German longitudinal study / Sabine Walper & Katharina Beckh; title: New family forms / Susan Golombok; title: Grandparents, grandchildren, and family change in contemporary Britain; title: Judy Dunn, Emma Fergusson, and Barbara Maughan; title: What have we learned: proof that families matter, prospects future research, and policies for families and children / Alison Clarke-Stewart; title: Research and policy: second looks at views of development, families, and communities, and at translations into practice / Jacqueline J. Goodnow; title: Prognosis: policy and process / Robert A. Hinde.