Threats to optimal development integrating biological, psychological, and social risk factors

This volume reflects a continuation of the concerns of the Institute of Child Development with the nature and content of development in multiple contexts. It comes at a most welcome point since the Institute--in collaboration with the University of Minnesota's Department of Psychology--now part...

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Other Authors: Nelson, Charles A. (Charles Alexander) (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Hillsdale, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates 1994.
Series:Minnesota symposia on child psychology (Series) ; v. 27.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; THREATS TO OPTIMAL DEVELOPMENT: Integrating Biological, Psychological, and Social Risk Factors: The Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1 Trends and Directions in Studies of Developmental Risk; 2 Synaptogenesis, Synapse Elimination, and Neural Plasticity in Human Cerebral Cortex; 3 Plasticity and Reorganization in Neural Injury and Neural Grafting; 4 Developmental Psychopathology of Antisocial Behavior: Inserting Genes Into its Ontogenesis and Epigenesis; 5 Why Developmental Psychology Should Find Room for Behavioral Genetics
  • 6 Nutritional Deficiencies as Developmental Risk Factors 7 Nutritional Deficiencies as Developmental Risk Factors: Commentary on Pollitt and Gorman; 8 Development, Plasticity, and Risk: Commentary on Huttenlocher, Pollitt and Gorman, and Gottesman and Goldsmith; 9 The Special Role of Parenting in the Context of Poverty: The Case of Adolescent Motherhood; 10 Poverty and Adolescent Childbearing: The Dangers of the 'Half Empty Glass' Perspective; 11 Poverty, Violence, and Child Development: Untangling Family and Community Level Effects
  • 12 The Role of Biological and Psychosocial Risk Factors in Development: Commentary on Kopp, Musick, and Aber; 13 Integrating Developmental Risk Factors: Perspectives From Developmental Psychopathology; Author Index; Subject Index