Overcoming the Odds : : High Risk Children from Birth to Adulthood /

Overcoming the Odds : : High Risk Children from Birth to Adulthood / / Ruth S. Smith, Emmy E. Werner.

Overcoming the Odds looks closely at the lives of an ethnically diverse group of 505 men and women who were born in 1955 on the Hawaiian island of Kauai and who have been monitored from the prenatal period through early adulthood by psychologists, pediatricians, public health professionals, and soci...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Werner, Emmy E.,
Smith, Ruth S.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1992
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 15 halftones, 1 map, 8 charts
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Context of the Study
  • 3. Ordinary People
  • 4. The Resilient Children in Adulthood
  • 5. Teenage Mothers in Later Years
  • 6. Delinquents with and without Records of Adult Crimes
  • 7. Mental Health Problems: Troubled Youths Grown Up
  • 8. Stressful Events in Childhood and Youth and Adult Adaptation
  • 9. Protective Factors and Adult Adaptation
  • 10. Summing Up
  • Appendixes
  • References
  • Index

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