At-Risk Children

This book offers insight into the social science concept of authoritative communities. Kline's work facilitates the continuing dialogue about the needs of children and teens and society's responsibility to nurture its greatest human capital.

The contributors to this collection employ the analytic resources of cultural-historical theory to examine the relationship between childhood and children's development under different societal conditions. In particular they attend to relationships between development, emotions, motives and identities, and the social practices in which children and young people may be learners. These practices are knowledge-laden, imbued with cultural values and emotionally freighted by those who already act in them.

This book focuses on topics such as social development of children with visual impairment, child poverty in rich countries, parenting styles in relation to poverty and the relation between poverty and the psychological disturbances of war-traumatised adolescents.

Childhood resilience is the phenomenon of positive adaptation despite significant life adversities. Integrated in this book are contributions from leading scientists who have studied children's adjustment across risks common in contemporary society.