Childhood multiple risk factor exposure exceeds the adverse developmental impacts of
singular exposures. Multiple risk factor exposure may also explain why sociodemographic …

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 …

This paper presents a critical appraisal of resilience, a construct connoting the maintenance
of positive adaptation by individuals despite experiences of significant adversity. As …

This study examined ways in which children's risk of school failure may be moderated by
support from teachers. Participants were 910 children in a national prospective study …

Since the publication of the first edition of The Handbook of Early Childhood Intervention, a
rapidly growing body of literature dealing with the phenomenon of resilience and the role of …

Objective. This study investigates associations between food insufficiency and cognitive,
academic, and psychosocial outcomes for US children and teenagers ages 6 to 11 and 12 to …

This study examined the academic resilience of undocumented immigrant Latino students. It
was hypothesized that due to their legal and social marginalization, students who …

This article reviews existing research on the association between stressors and symptoms of
psychopathology in children and adolescents with a focus on measurement issues and …

This study merged two theoretical constructs: cumulative risk and allostatic load. Physical
(crowding, noise, housing quality) and psychosocial (child separation, turmoil, violence) …

These brief biographies illustrate two very different developmental paths that began at the
same place. Risk research would have predicted Paul's outcomes, and John would have …