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Book SynopsisPsychology''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 extreme and strong positive adaptations at the other--it is not surprising to find this new element of compensatory protective factors as a reshaping factor in the field of risk research. It is one that recognizes and studies the relevance of risk influences on disorder, but also focuses on recovery from disorder or the absence of disorder despite the presence of risk. This latter element impli
Trade Review"...this is an ambitious book....some of the individual chapters are excellent."
—Contemporary Psychology
Table of ContentsContents: N. Garmezy, Foreword. Preface. C.B. Kopp, Trends and Directions in Studies of Developmental Risk. P.R. Huttenlocher, Synaptogenesis, Synapse Elimination, and Neural Plasticity in Human Cerebral Cortex. E.M. Jansen, W.C. Low, Plasticity and Reorganization in Neural Injury and Neural Grafting. I.I. Gottesman, H.H. Goldsmith, Developmental Psychopathology of Antisocial Behavior: Inserting Genes Into Its Ontogenesis and Epigenesis. M. McGue, Why Developmental Psychology Should Find Room for Behavioral Genetics. E. Pollitt, K.S. Gorman, Nutritional Deficiencies as Developmental Risk Factors. M.K. Georgieff, Nutritional Deficiencies as Developmental Risk Factors: Commentary on Pollitt and Gorman. M. de Haan, M. Luciana, S.M. Malone, L.S. Matheny, M.L.M. Richards, Development, Plasticity, and Risk: Commentary on Huttenlocher, Pollitt and Gorman, and Gottesman and Goldsmith. J.S. Musick, The Special Role of Parenting in the Context of Poverty: The Case of Adolescent Motherhood. G.K. Brookins, A.M. Benson, Poverty and Adolescent Childbearing: The Dangers of the "Half Empty Glass" Perspective. J.L. Aber, Poverty, Violence, and Child Development: Untangling Family and Community Level Effects. M. Hiester, J.R. Ogawa, E. Ostoja, A.R. Susman, N.S. Weinfield, The Role of Biological and Psychosocial Risk Factors in Development: Commentary on Kopp, Musick, and Aber. D. Cicchetti, Integrating Developmental Risk Factors: Perspectives From Developmental Psychopathology.
