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First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
List of contents
Contents: 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.
About the author
Charles A. Nelson
Summary
Psychology's recent immersion in risk research has begun to focus on the effects and consequences produced by the multiple aspects of risk on individual adaptation. This volume concentrates on threats to optimal development in multiple contexts.
