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Child development; vulnerability; resilience; malnutrition; violence toward children
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Child Development: Vulnerability And Resilience, Patrice L. Engle, Sarah Castle, Purnima Menon
Child Development: Vulnerability And Resilience, Patrice L. Engle, Sarah Castle, Purnima Menon
Psychology and Child Development
Many of the challenges facing children now are a function of changing times, including increase in urbanization, political violence, changing family forms, and in some areas decreased supplies of adequate food. This review focuses particularly on those changes in which children are the victims and which induce new threats for them, rather than on problems such as child disability or mental illness. The outcome variables of interest in this paper are dimensions of children's psychosocial development, including cognitive development, psychological adjustment and aggression, whereas the companion paper in this issue (Caldwell P., Child survival: vulnerability and resilience in adversity in …