The Oxford handbook of poverty and child development
By: edited by Valerie Maholmes, Rosalind King
Series: Oxford library of psychology
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 725
ISBN-13: 9780199769100
Subjects: Child development; Poor children; Poverty
Description: Comprehensive and integrative, this handbook describes the contextual and social ecology of children living in poverty and illuminates the biological and behavioural interactions that either promote optimal development or that place children at risk of having poor developmental outcomes.