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Poverty and children's adjustment / Suniya S. Luthar.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Developmental clinical psychology and psychiatry ; v. 41.Publication details: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©1999.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 131 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781452265087
  • 1452265089
  • 9781452233758
  • 1452233756
  • 1322416184
  • 9781322416182
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Poverty and children's adjustment.DDC classification:
  • 362.7/086/9420973 22
LOC classification:
  • HV741 .L88 1999eb
NLM classification:
  • W1
  • WS 105.5.A8
Other classification:
  • D 3640
  • 5,3
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Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Child Attributes. Gender Differences in Vulnerability to Familial Stressors. Gender Differences in Vulnerability to Community-Related Influences. Age Differences. Personal Characteristics. Trajectories of Adjustment -- 3. Poverty and the Family: Demographic and Structural Features. Teenage Mothers. Family Structure. Ethnicity -- 4. Poverty and the Family: Psychological Processes. Poverty and Parents' Functioning. Parental Behaviors. Models of Family Functioning in the Context of Poverty -- 5. Exosystemic Influences. Support Networks. The Physical Environment. Neighborhoods. Violence in the Neighborhood -- 6. Future Directions. Childhood in Poverty: Directions for Future Inquiry. Interventions. Teaching and Curricula.
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Summary: Poverty and Children's Adjustment gives an interdisciplinary perspective on the effects of poverty, lack of education, and other negative socioeconomic forces on children's development. This volume provides an in-depth review of the literature on psychopathology among children faced with sociodemographic disadvantage, as well as suggested directions for future research. Suniya S.Summary: Luthar integrates findings of empirical research, conducted over the past three decades, on processes implicated in the adjustment to socioeconomic deprivation.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-114) and indexes.

1. Introduction -- 2. Child Attributes. Gender Differences in Vulnerability to Familial Stressors. Gender Differences in Vulnerability to Community-Related Influences. Age Differences. Personal Characteristics. Trajectories of Adjustment -- 3. Poverty and the Family: Demographic and Structural Features. Teenage Mothers. Family Structure. Ethnicity -- 4. Poverty and the Family: Psychological Processes. Poverty and Parents' Functioning. Parental Behaviors. Models of Family Functioning in the Context of Poverty -- 5. Exosystemic Influences. Support Networks. The Physical Environment. Neighborhoods. Violence in the Neighborhood -- 6. Future Directions. Childhood in Poverty: Directions for Future Inquiry. Interventions. Teaching and Curricula.

Poverty and Children's Adjustment gives an interdisciplinary perspective on the effects of poverty, lack of education, and other negative socioeconomic forces on children's development. This volume provides an in-depth review of the literature on psychopathology among children faced with sociodemographic disadvantage, as well as suggested directions for future research. Suniya S.

Luthar integrates findings of empirical research, conducted over the past three decades, on processes implicated in the adjustment to socioeconomic deprivation.

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