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Fostering Resilience and Wellbeing in Children and Families in Poverty
Maholmes, Valerie, Phd.
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Description for Fostering Resilience and Wellbeing in Children and Families in Poverty
In Fostering Resilience and Well-Being in Children and Families in Poverty, Dr. Valerie Maholmes sheds light on the mechanisms and processes that enable children and families to manage and overcome adversity. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFA; JKSB1; JKSN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
The number of children living in families with incomes below the federal poverty level increased by 33 percent between 2000 and 2009, resulting in over 15 million children living in poverty. Some of these children are able to overcome this dark statistic and break the intergenerational transmission of poverty, offering hope to an otherwise bleak outlook, but this raises the question--how? In Fostering Resilience and Well-Being in Children and Families in Poverty, Dr. Valerie Maholmes sheds light on the mechanisms and processes that enable children and families to manage and overcome adversity. She explains that research findings on children ... Read more
The number of children living in families with incomes below the federal poverty level increased by 33 percent between 2000 and 2009, resulting in over 15 million children living in poverty. Some of these children are able to overcome this dark statistic and break the intergenerational transmission of poverty, offering hope to an otherwise bleak outlook, but this raises the question--how? In Fostering Resilience and Well-Being in Children and Families in Poverty, Dr. Valerie Maholmes sheds light on the mechanisms and processes that enable children and families to manage and overcome adversity. She explains that research findings on children ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
236
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199959525
SKU
V9780199959525
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About Maholmes, Valerie, Phd.
Dr. Valerie Maholmes has devoted her career to studying factors that affect child developmental outcomes. Low-income minority children have been a particular focus of her research, practical, and civic work. She has been a faculty member at the Yale Child Study Center in the Yale School of Medicine where she held the Irving B. Harris Assistant Professorship of Child Psychiatry, ... Read more
Reviews for Fostering Resilience and Wellbeing in Children and Families in Poverty
The stories in the book illustrate how by fostering hope of a different life in young people they can, with support, use the resources around them, however scarce, to lift themselves out of poverty.
Trish Joscelyne, The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy
The book serves as a solid overview of strategies that can be used to ... Read more
Trish Joscelyne, The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy
The book serves as a solid overview of strategies that can be used to ... Read more