Handbook on Positive Development of Minority Children and Youth

Part I. Conceptual and Methodological Approaches

1. Positive Youth Development Among Minority Youth: A Relational Developmental Systems Model
Richard M. Lerner, Jun Wang, Rachel M. Hershberg, Mary H. Buckingham, Elise M. Harris, Jonathan M. Tirrell, Edmond P. Bowers, Jacqueline V. Lerner

2. A Resilience Perspective on Immigrant Youth Adaptation and Development
Frosso Motti-Stefanidi, Ann Masten

3. Measuring Positive Development I: Multilevel Analysis
Jens B. Asendorpf

4. Equivalence in Research on Positive Development of Minority Children: Methodological Approaches
Fons J. R. Vijver, Jia He

Part II. Individual Level Influences

5. Parental Sensitivity and Attachment in Ethnic Minority Families
Maike Malda, Judi Mesman

6. Conceptualizing Variability in U.S. Latino Children’s Dual-Language Development
Kelly Escobar, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda

7. An International Perspective on Parenting and Children’s Adjustment
Jennifer E. Lansford

8. Cultural Identity Development as a Developmental Resource
Paul Vedder, Mitch van Geel

9. Differential Susceptibility in Minority Children: Individual Differences in Environmental Sensitivity
Elham Assary, Michael Pluess

Part III. Family/Parenting Level Influences

10. Parenting and Families in the United States and Canada
Catherine Costigan, Joelle Taknint, Sheena Miao

11. Family Resources for Promoting Positive Development Among Minority Children: European Perspectives
Sabine Walper, Birgit Leyendecker

12. Minority Fathers and Children’s Positive Development in the United States
Natasha J. Cabrera, Elizabeth Karberg, Catherine Kuhns

13. Language and Parenting: Minority Languages in North America
Allyssa McCabe

14. Minority Language Parenting in Europe and Children’s Well-Being
Annick De Houwer

Part IV. Peers and Friendship Level Influences

15. Interethnic Friendship Formation
Peter F. Titzmann

16. The Friendships of Racial–Ethnic Minority Youth in Context
Leoandra Onnie Rogers, Erika Y. Niwa, Niobe Way

17. Minority and Majority Children’s Evaluations of Social Exclusion in Intergroup Contexts
Aline Hitti, Kelly Lynn Mulvey, Melanie Killen

18. Children’s Social–Emotional Development in Contexts of Peer Exclusion
Tina Malti, Antonio Zuffianò, Lixian Cui, Tyler Colasante, Joanna Peplak, Na Young Bae

19. Positive Youth Development of Roma Ethnic Minority Across Europe
Radosveta Dimitrova, Laura Ferrer-Wreder

Part V. Early Childhood and School Level Influences

20. Promoting Positive Self-Esteem in Ethnic Minority Students: The Role of School and Classroom Context
Jochem Thijs, Maykel Verkuyten

21. Parental Educational Involvement and Latino Children’s Academic Attainment
Rosario Ceballo, Rosanne M. Jocson, Francheska Alers-Rojas

22. Using Self-Regulated Learning as a Framework for Creating Inclusive Classrooms for Ethnically and Linguistically Diverse Learners in Canada
Nancy Perry, Nikki Yee, Silvia Mazabel, Simon Lisaingo, Elina Määttä

Part VI. Policies/Prevention/Programs

23. Documentation Status and Child Development in the U.S. and Europe
Natalia Rojas, Hirokazu Yoshikawa

24. Research on Positive Youth Development in Boys of Color: Implications for Intervention and Policy
Noni K. Gaylord-Harden, Cynthia Pierre, Latriece Clark, Patrick H. Tolan, Oscar A. Barbarin

25. Civic Engagement as an Adaptive Coping Response to Conditions of Inequality: An Application of Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory (PVEST)
Elan C. Hope, Margaret Beale Spencer

26. Developing an Ethnic-Racial Identity Intervention from a Developmental Perspective: Process, Content, and Implementation of the Identity Project
Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor, Sara Douglass

27. Children’s Centres: An English Intervention for Families Living in Disadvantaged Communities
Maria Evangelou, Jenny Goff, Kathy Sylva, Pam Sammons, Teresa Smith, James Hall, Naomi Eisenstadt

28. Instructional Practice with Young Bilingual Learners: A Canadian Profile
Roma Chumak-Horbatsch

Avainsanat: Psychology, Positive Psychology, Quality of Life Research, Early Childhood Education