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This book systematically brought together the multiple and valuable directions of previous studies on political violence and youth adjustment in a conceptual pyramid informed by the tenets of developmental psychopathology. Thus, a value added of this book is to bring together the multiple directions in research on political violence, armed conflict, and youth adjustment with clear recommendations for future research and practice. Consistent with a developmental psychopathology perspective, work in each tier is mutually informative and synergistic with work in other tiers; the findings across the tiers should be systematically integrated to improve this field. More generally, the principles of a developmental psychopathology perspective offer well-developed future directions for advances in the study of youth and armed conflict. Moreover, this book specifically highlights the importance of process-oriented, longitudinal research from a social-ecological perspective. In conclusion, this book provides an accessible, integrative window into the state of the art in this important complex, multidisciplinary, worldwide literature and provides many guides and recommendations for ways for this area of research to move forward.
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Cummings, E.M., Merrilees, C.E., Taylor, L.K., Mondi, C.F. (2017). A Vision for Future Research from a Developmental Psychopathology Perspective. In: Political Violence, Armed Conflict, and Youth Adjustment. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51583-0_8
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