Child and Adolescent Development in Risky Adverse Contexts

Blanca E. Barcelata Eguiarte is a Full-Time Professor in the Department of Psychology and in the Graduate Program in Psychology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She holds a master's degree in Clinical Psychology and a PhD in Psychology and Health from the same institution, and is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) in Mexico. Dr. Barcelata-Eguiarte is the leader of the Adolescence, Health and Family Project in UNAM’s Faculty of Higher Studies Zaragoza, and founder of the Adolescents and Family Community Program at UNAM’s University Health Care Clinic. Her research focuses on vulnerability, adaptation, and resilience of adolescents and families to multiple adverse contexts in high-risk populations, with a special emphasis in stress, coping, social support, personality, and regulation processes. She is member of Stress, Trauma, Anxiety, and Resilience, Society since 2006. Paloma Suárez Brito holds a PhD in Experimental Psychology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), as well as postdoctoral studies in Educational Psychology from the same university. She currently collaborates in different research projects in Mexico and USA about infant psychology and prevention of mental disorders at the Baby Lab at the Faculty of Psychology, UNAM, the Children’s Psychiatric Hospital “Juan N. Navarro”, and the National Institute of Psychiatry “Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz” in Mexico City; and at the Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, USA. Her research examines child development, language acquisition and attitudes toward mental health in parents and children, with special emphasis in typical - atypical population comparisons. She is currently Full Time Professor at the Latin American University (ULA) and a member of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD).

• 1.An ecological-systemic framework. An overview to child and adolescent development at adverse contexts.- 2. The Effects of Parenting Practices on Early Childhood Development in a Context of Poverty in Mexico City.- 3.Parental Concern in Typical and Atypical Language Acquisition of Monolingual Spanish-Speaking Children in Adverse Social Conditions.- 4 Studies on child development in vulnerable groups in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires, Argentina.- 5.Parental Appraisal of the Vocabulary of Mexican Infants from Families of Different Socioeconomic Status.- 6.Early Disengagements of Babies and Children without Parental Care: An Early Bonding Reanimation Program.- 7.Growing up in Adverse Family Contexts: Risks and Resources for Adolescent Development.- 8. Understanding Social Risk Factors in Chilean Adolescent Suicides: An Analysis of Mediating Mechanisms.- 9.Coping Styles in Children and Teenagers in Different Situations of Psychosocial Risk.- 10.Juvenile Delinquency in Brazil: Development of Adolescents in Adverse Contexts.- 11.Emotional Psychological Effects of Institutionalization in Children and Early Adolescents.