Stress in Childhood

The innocence of childhood does not protect against exposure to stress. More than half of US children are exposed to adverse experiences, such as abuse, neglect, witnessing domestic violence, parental psychopathology, or divorce, and all children encounter normative stressors like school transitions and challenges with peers. This Element discusses research on stress psychobiology during childhood, from birth to age ten. The Element focuses on important contexts that shape children's responses to stress and their coping capacities, including the family system, peers, schools, neighborhoods, the broader culture, as well as clinical settings. Sources of stress and resilience in each context are described.

List of contents

1. Stress in childhood: the mind-body connection; 2. Stress and resilience in family systems; 3. Stress and belonging in peer relationships; 4. Stress and the school environment; 5. The role of neighborhoods in stress and resilience; 6. Discrimination stress and cultural sources of resilience; 7. Stress, trauma, and mental health interventions; 8. Rearing resilient children; References.

Product details

• Authors: Joanna Y. Guan, Sally Hang, Camelia E. Hostinar, Camelia E. (University of California Hostinar, Geneva M. Jost, Jamie M. Lawler, Anna M. Parenteau
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 31.12.2025
• EAN: 9781009420242
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0942024-2
• No. of pages: 104
• Series: Elements in Child Development
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / General, Psychotherapy, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Psychotherapy: child and adolescent, Maturation and ageing, Maturation & Ageing