The concept of resilience has as its starting point the recognition that there is huge
heterogeneity in people's responses to all manner of environmental adversities. Resilience …

Variations in phenotype reflect the influence of environmental conditions during
development on cellular functions, including that of the genome. The recent integration of …

This chapter describes the major developments in the field of resilience since its inception
more than 40 years ago, and presents a brief history on resilience. It elucidates critical …

Current findings on parental influences provide more sophisticated and less deterministic
explanations than did earlier theory and research on parenting. This chapter outlines key …

The aims of the present review are to apply a recent risk factor approach (HC Kraemer et al.,
1997) to putative risk factors for eating disorders, to order these along a timeline, and to …

This chapter examines neurobiological development in normal and illustrative high‐risk
conditions and mental disorders. It reviews relevant findings on neural plasticity and their …

While the subject of play may seem trivial for behavioral science, EO Wilson noted that
understanding the significance of play is an important challenge facing scholars in these …

Research on human aggression has been a flourishing industry in the 20th century. As the
attention shifted from an instinctual paradigm to a drive paradigm and a social learning …

Despite increasing knowledge of social and biological risk factors for antisocial and violent
behavior, we know surprisingly little about how these two sets of risk factors interact. This …

This book examines the role of peer relationships in child and adolescent development by
tracking research findings from the early 1900s to the present. Dividing the research into …