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A Socio-ecological Model of Adaptive Behavior and Functioning

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Pediatrics may be viewed as the medical discipline most essentially behaviorally and developmentally oriented. The pediatrician follows the human organism through a host of transitions from uterine to extrauterine existence through childhood and adolescence. Throughout the sequence of awesomely complex transitions, the pediatrician must monitor and strive to facilitate the organism’s successive adaptations. From the highly buffered uterine environment, the organism confronts the differing adaptive demands of progressively less buffered and more complex social and ecological environments. Through participation in a widening set of environments, the organism develops and increases in behavioral complexity.

Much of the theory and research cited herein was supported in part by grant G00760214 and contract 300-75-0255 to the Institute for Family and Child Study, Michigan State University, from the Bureau of Education for the Handicapped, U. S. Office of Health, Education and Welfare (now Department of Education, Office of Special Education), Washington, D. C.

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  1. Center for the Study of Youth Development, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 94305, USA

    Nancy A. Carlson

  2. Plymouth Center for Human Development, Northville, Michigan, 48167, USA

    Thomas Z. Cassel

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  1. Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA

    Hiram E. Fitzgerald Ph.D. (Professor of Psychology) (Professor of Psychology)

  2. Child Development Unit, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Barry M. Lester Ph.D. (Director of Developmental Research, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics) (Director of Developmental Research, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics)

  3. Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Barry M. Lester Ph.D. (Director of Developmental Research, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics) & Michael W. Yogman M.D. (Associate Chief, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics) (Director of Developmental Research, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics) &  (Associate Chief, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics)

  4. Division of Child Development, Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Michael W. Yogman M.D. (Associate Chief, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics) (Associate Chief, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics)

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Carlson, N.A., Cassel, T.Z. (1984). A Socio-ecological Model of Adaptive Behavior and Functioning. In: Fitzgerald, H.E., Lester, B.M., Yogman, M.W. (eds) Theory and Research in Behavioral Pediatrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1660-0_2

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