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Book SynopsisThe essential reference for human development theory, updated and reconceptualized The Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science, a four-volume reference, is the field-defining work to which all others are compared. First published in 1946, and now in its Seventh Edition, the Handbook has long been considered the definitive guide to the field of developmental science.
Volume 4: Ecological Settings and Processes in Developmental Systems is centrally concerned with the people, conditions, and events outside individuals that affect children and their development. To understand children''s development it is both necessary and desirable to embrace all of these social and physical contexts. Guided by the relational developmental systems metatheory, the chapters in the volume are ordered them in a manner that begins with the near proximal contexts in which children find themselves and moving through to distal contexts that influence children
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Table of ContentsForeword to the Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science, Seventh Edition vii
Preface xv
Volume 4 Preface xxiii
Contributors xxv
1 CHILDREN IN BIOECOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES OF DEVELOPMENT 1
Marc H. Bornstein and Tama Leventhal
2 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN TIME AND PLACE 6
Glen H. Elder Jr., Michael J. Shanahan, and Julia A. Jennings
3 CHILDREN’S PARENTS 55
Marc H. Bornstein
4 CHILDREN IN DIVERSE FAMILIES 133
Lawrence Ganong, Marilyn Coleman, and Luke T. Russell
5 CHILDREN IN PEER GROUPS 175
Kenneth H. Rubin, William M. Bukowski, and Julie C. Bowker
6 EARLY CHILDCARE AND EDUCATION 223
Margaret Burchinal, Katherine Magnuson, Douglas Powell, and Sandra Soliday Hong
7 CHILDREN AT SCHOOL 268
Robert Crosnoe and Aprile D. Benner
8 CHILDREN’S ORGANIZED ACTIVITIES 305
Deborah Lowe Vandell, Reed W. Larson, Joseph L. Mahoney, and Tyler W. Watts
9 CHILDREN AT WORK 345
Jeremy Staff, Arnaldo Mont’Alvao, and Jeylan T. Mortimer
10 CHILDREN AND DIGITAL MEDIA 375
Sandra L. Calvert
11 CHILDREN IN DIVERSE SOCIAL CONTEXTS 416
Velma McBride Murry, Nancy E. Hill, Dawn Witherspoon, Cady Berkel, and Deborah Bartz
12 CHILDREN’S HOUSING AND PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS 455
Robert H. Bradley
13 CHILDREN IN NEIGHBORHOODS 493
Tama Leventhal, Véronique Dupéré, and Elizabeth A. Shuey
14 CHILDREN AND SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS 534
Greg J. Duncan, Katherine Magnuson, and Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal
15 CHILDREN IN MEDICAL SETTINGS 574
Barry Zuckerman and Robert D. Keder
16 CHILDREN AND THE LAW 616
Elizabeth Cauffman, Elizabeth Shulman, Jordan Bechtold, and Laurence Steinberg
17 CHILDREN AND GOVERNMENT 654
Kenneth A. Dodge and Ron Haskins
18 CHILDREN INWAR AND DISASTER 704
Ann S. Masten, Angela J. Narayan, Wendy K. Silverman, and Joy D. Osofsky
19 CHILDREN AND CULTURAL CONTEXT 746
Jacqueline J. Goodnow and Jeanette A. Lawrence
20 CHILDREN IN HISTORY 787
Peter N. Stearns
21 ASSESSING BIOECOLOGICAL INFLUENCES 811
Theodore D. Wachs
Author Index 847
Subject Index 887
