Main description:

Emotional Security and Conflict in Context: A Developmental Psychopathology Perspective on Youth Adjustment covers the effects of conflict on children. Moving beyond conflict in the family, over 1 billion children are affected by community and political conflict and war, which also has profound and long-lasting implications for development. This book integrates several theoretical models that are central to work in this field, providing a clear review of the literature in a way that systematically and logically flows. In addition, it discusses child development from a developmental psychopathology perspective.

Finally, the book integrates perspectives on violence and conflict across the social ecology, as well as several theoretical frameworks that are core to the field.

Contents:

1. Family conflict, violence, international conflict and child adjustment
2. EST as an explanatory model for the effects of conflict and violence on children
3. The Value of DP for understanding family processes in multiple contexts
4. Methods for Evaluating Families from a DP perspective
5. Applications of DP for understanding family conflict
6. Political Violence from a DP perspective
7. Translational Research and the DP Perspective
8. Prevention/intervention for conflict across contexts (returning to the socioecological model)
9. Next Steps in Research on Emotional Security and Conflict