Table of Contents

Foreword to the Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science, Seventh Edition vii

Preface xv

Volume 4 Preface xxiii

Contributors xxv

1 CHILDREN IN BIOECOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES OF DEVELOPMENT 1
Marc H. Bornstein and Tama Leventhal

2 HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN TIME AND PLACE 6
Glen H. Elder Jr., Michael J. Shanahan, and Julia A. Jennings

3 CHILDREN’S PARENTS 55
Marc H. Bornstein

4 CHILDREN IN DIVERSE FAMILIES 133
Lawrence Ganong, Marilyn Coleman, and Luke T. Russell

5 CHILDREN IN PEER GROUPS 175
Kenneth H. Rubin, William M. Bukowski, and Julie C. Bowker

6 EARLY CHILDCARE AND EDUCATION 223
Margaret Burchinal, Katherine Magnuson, Douglas Powell, and Sandra Soliday Hong

7 CHILDREN AT SCHOOL 268
Robert Crosnoe and Aprile D. Benner

8 CHILDREN’S ORGANIZED ACTIVITIES 305
Deborah Lowe Vandell, Reed W. Larson, Joseph L. Mahoney, and Tyler W. Watts

9 CHILDREN AT WORK 345
Jeremy Staff, Arnaldo Mont’Alvao, and Jeylan T. Mortimer

10 CHILDREN AND DIGITAL MEDIA 375
Sandra L. Calvert

11 CHILDREN IN DIVERSE SOCIAL CONTEXTS 416
Velma McBride Murry, Nancy E. Hill, Dawn Witherspoon, Cady Berkel, and Deborah Bartz

12 CHILDREN’S HOUSING AND PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS 455
Robert H. Bradley

13 CHILDREN IN NEIGHBORHOODS 493
Tama Leventhal, Véronique Dupéré, and Elizabeth A. Shuey

14 CHILDREN AND SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS 534
Greg J. Duncan, Katherine Magnuson, and Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal

15 CHILDREN IN MEDICAL SETTINGS 574
Barry Zuckerman and Robert D. Keder

16 CHILDREN AND THE LAW 616
Elizabeth Cauffman, Elizabeth Shulman, Jordan Bechtold, and Laurence Steinberg

17 CHILDREN AND GOVERNMENT 654
Kenneth A. Dodge and Ron Haskins

18 CHILDREN INWAR AND DISASTER 704
Ann S. Masten, Angela J. Narayan, Wendy K. Silverman, and Joy D. Osofsky

19 CHILDREN AND CULTURAL CONTEXT 746
Jacqueline J. Goodnow and Jeanette A. Lawrence

20 CHILDREN IN HISTORY 787
Peter N. Stearns

21 ASSESSING BIOECOLOGICAL INFLUENCES 811
Theodore D. Wachs

Author Index 847

Subject Index 887

About the Author

Editor-in-Chief: Richard M. Lerner, PhD is Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science at the Eliot-Pearson Department at Tufts University.? He is the author of many publications, including?Pathways to Positive Development about Diverse Youth?and?New Directions for Youth Development: Theory, Practice, and Research?(Jossey-Bass). Dr Lerner is also a past editor of the?Journal of Research on Adolescence?and?The Handbook of Life-Span Development?(Wiley).

Reviews

"This book continues to be the pre-eminent reference source for advanced child psychologists anywhere." (Reference Reviews, May 2016)