Overview
- Represents new directions in research on minority children away from risks, towards positive development
- Provides a platform for increased and much-needed research on minority children in Europe
- Is organized in line with the ecological perspective that the child is nested in a complex network of interconnected systems
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Keywords
- Children in Minority Families
- Children's Adaptive Systems
- Factors Protecting Children and Promote Adaption
- Positive Adaption of Minority Children
- Psychosocial Adaptation and External Functioning
- Supporting Children's Social Integration
- Immigrant Youth Adaption
- Measuring Positive Devlopment
- Positive Development of Minority Children
- Parental Sensitivity in Ethnic Minority Families
- Parenting and Children's Adjustment
- Cultural Identity Development
- Language and Parenting
- Friendship and Positive Youth Development
- Children's Healthy Social-Emotional Development
- Positive Development of Minority Children in Schools
- Ethnic-Racial Identity Intervention
Table of contents (28 chapters)
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Peers and Friendship Level Influences
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Early Childhood and School Level Influences
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Policies/Prevention/Programs
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Birgit Leyendecker is a Professor for Developmental Psychology at the Ruhr-University Bochum. Her research focus is on cultural perspectives on child development and parenting, cultural and psychosocial adaptation of immigrant children and their families, and on resilience, particularly on the role of internal and external resources on children’s developmental pathways. She is the Principal Investigator of an international study on the development of resilience among immigrant children and their families. In 2016, she started a funded project on refugee children and their families in Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook on Positive Development of Minority Children and Youth
Editors: Natasha J. Cabrera, Birgit Leyendecker
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43645-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-43643-2Published: 14 February 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82875-6Published: 09 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-43645-6Published: 07 February 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIV, 489
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Positive Psychology, Quality of Life Research, Early Childhood Education