Resilience in Children, Volume 1094

Barry M. Lester, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and Professor of Pediatrics at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Dr. Lester founded and serves as Director of the Center for the Study of Children at Risk at Brown Alpert Medical School and Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island. Dr. Lester has been a member of NIH study sections and of the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse at NIDA. He is past president of the International Association for Infant Mental Health and the author of more than 200 scientific publications and 16 books.

• Why Resilience? Overview: Barry M. Lester. Keynote Address: Implications of resilience concepts for scientific understanding: Sir Michael Rutter.Part I: Behavioral and Psychosocial Processes – Child Factors:.1. Competence and Resilience in Development: Ann S. Masten and Jelena Obradović.2. Contributions of Temperament to Buffering and Sensitization Processes in Children’s Development: Theodore D. Wachs.3. Resilience as an Attribute of the Developmental System: Comments on the Papers of Professors Masten and Wachs: Richard M. Lerner.Part II: Behavioral and Psychosocial Processes – Family, Relationship and Broader Environmental Factors:.4. Risk, Resiliency, and Gene-Environment Interactions in Rhesus Monkeys: Stephen J. Suomi.5. Social Class and Race Disparities in School Readiness: How Can We Close the Gap.: Jeanne Brooks-Gunn.6. Response: Edward Z. Tronick.Part III: Issues:.7. Conceptual Issues in Studies of Resilience: Past, present, and future research. By Suniya S. Luthar.8. Biopsychosocial Influences on the Development of Resilience: Arnold Sameroff.9. Response: To be announced.Part IV: Behavioral and Psychosocial Processes – Prevention:.10. Adolescents' Resilience as a Self-regulatory Process: Promising Themes for Linking Intervention with Developmental Science: Thomas J. Dishion and Arin Connell.11. Promoting Resilience Children and Youth: Preventive Interventions and Their Interface with Neuroscience: Mark T. Greenberg.12. Prevention Approaches to Enhance Resilience among High-risk Youth: Karol L. Kumpfer.Part V: Neurobiological Processes – Emotion Regulation:.13. Behavioral Differences in Aggressive Children Linked with Neural Mechanisms of Emotion Regulation: Marc D. Lewis.14. Discussion of Marc D. Lewis Presentation "Behavioral Differences in Aggressive Children Linked with Neural Mechanisms with Developmental Science" and Michael Davis Presentation "The Role of Opiate Receptors in the Medial Nucleus of the Amygdala (Mea) in Conditioned Fear Measured with Fear Potentiated Startle": Linda C. Mayes.Part VI: Neurobiological Processes – Genetics:.15. Genetic and Environmental Influences on the Development of Alcoholism: Resilience Versus Risk: Mary-Anne Enoch.16. Response: Kathleen Ries Merikangas.Part VII: Neurobiological Processes – Neuroendocrine:.17. Stress and the Adolescent Brain: R. Romeo and Bruce McEwen.18. Effects of a Therapeutic Intervention for Foster Children on Behavior Problems, Caregiver Attachment, and Stress Regulatory Neural Systems: Philip A. Fisher.19. Response: Bruce E. Compas.Part VIII: Neuroscience and Intervention:.20. Prevention of Pediatric Bipolar Disorder: Integration of Psychosocial and Neurobiological Processes: Kiki Chang.Part IX: Integration and Wrap-Up:.21. Roundtable Discussion Moderator: Ann Masten.22. A Multiple-Levels-of-Analysis Perspective on Resilience: Implications for the Developing Brain and Neural Plasticity: Dante Cicchetti.23. The Evolutionary Basis of Adaptation in Resilience and Vulnerability: A Response to Cicchetti and Blender: Myron Hofer.Part X: Poster Papers:.Clancy Blair.Zack Boukydis.Anne Conway.Feyza Corapei.J.J. Cutuli.E. Emory.M. Fuertes.J. Ham.Y. Hestyanti.K. Kim.L. LaGasse.K. Lambert.A. Miller.Nomura.G. Oades-Sese.J. Obradovic.K. Rajendran.V. Shapiro.S. Sheinkopf.E. Vanderbilt-Adriance.Y. Wang

"This volume is written for clinicians, particularly those who work with atrisk children or work in pediatric preventive care. It is helpful if the reader has a background in psychological research so he can glean as much information as possible from the articles." (Metapsychology Online Reviews, February 2009)