Handbook of Children’s Coping Linking Theory and Intervention

Highlighting the interplay between basic research and intervention, this volume focuses on common stressful life experiences that present significant challenges to children's healthy development. Fifteen stressors are discussed with regard to both short-and long-term effects. The authors identify factors that explain variability in children's adjustment to these stressors and evaluate preventive interventions designed to facilitate coping. Notable chapters include a discussion of the many uncontrollable stressors to which inner-city youth are exposed and a thorough treatment of children's adaptation to divorce. Each chapter follows a common outline, allowing comparison among stressors.

I. Conceptual Issues in Studying Children’s Coping.- 1. Developing Linkages between Theory and Intervention in Stress and Coping Processes.- 2. Coping with Stress: The Roles of Regulation and Development.- II. Family Stressors.- 3. Children’s Coping with Maltreatment.- 4. Parental Alcoholism as a Risk Factor.- 5. Children of Depressed Parents: The Stress Context.- 6. Children’s Adaptation to Divorce: From Description to Explanation.- 7. Children’s Coping with Parental Illness.- 8. Risks and Interventions for the Parentally Bereaved Child.- 9. Understanding Stress Associated with Adolescent Pregnancy and Early Childbearing.- III. Physical and Environmental Stressors.- 10. Children’s Coping with Chronic Illness.- 11. The Nexus of Culture and Sensory Loss: Coping with Deafness.- 12. Children’s Coping with Stressful Medical Procedures.- 13. Children and Families Coping with Disaster.- IV. Social Environmental Stressors.- 14. Children’s Coping in the Academic Domain.- 15. Coping with Childhood Peer Rejection.- 16. Staying Out of Harm’s Way: Coping and the Development of Inner-City Children.- 17. Stress and Coping in an Ethnic Minority Context: Children’s Cultural Ecologies.- V. Conclusion.- 18. Preventing the Negative Effects of Common Stressors: Current Status and Future Directions.