Introduction to Special Section Youngsters: On the Cultures of Children and Youth

Naomi Hamer; Stuart R. Poyntz

doi:10.1353/jeu.2017.0022

Introduction to Special Section Youngsters: On the Cultures of Children and Youth

Jeunesse Young People Texts Cultures ◽

10.1353/jeu.2017.0022 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 14-19

Author(s):

Naomi Hamer ◽

Stuart R. Poyntz

Keyword(s):

Special Section ◽

Children And Youth

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Building a translational science on children and youth affected by political violence and armed conflict: A commentary

Development and Psychopathology ◽

10.1017/s0954579416001164 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 29 (1) ◽

pp. 79-84 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Ann S. Masten

Keyword(s):

Political Violence ◽

Armed Conflict ◽

Developmental Psychopathology ◽

Special Section ◽

Children And Youth ◽

Great Promise ◽

Translational Science ◽

Risk And Resilience ◽

International Crisis ◽

Contemporary Development

AbstractArticles in this timely Special Section represent an important milestone in the developmental science on children and youth involved in political violence and armed conflict. With millions of children worldwide affected by past and present wars and conflicts, there is an urgent and growing need for research to inform efforts to understand, prevent, and mitigate the possible harm of such violence to individual children, families, communities, and societies, for present as well as future generations. The four programs of research highlighted in this Special Section illustrate key advances and challenges in contemporary development research on young people growing up in the midst or aftermath of political violence. These studies are longitudinal, methodologically sophisticated, and grounded in socioecological systems models that align well with current models of risk and resilience in developmental psychopathology. These studies collectively mark a critically important shift to process-focused research that holds great promise for translational applications. Nonetheless, given the scope of the international crisis of children and youth affected by political violence and its sequelae, there is an urgent global need for greater mobilization of resources to support translational science and effective evidence-based action.

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Introduction to the special section on the development of motivational resilience in school

International Journal of Behavioral Development ◽

10.1177/0165025419873731 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 44 (4) ◽

pp. 287-289

Author(s):

Ellen A. Skinner ◽

Thomas A. Kindermann

Keyword(s):

Special Section ◽

Academic Development ◽

Social Processes ◽

Children And Youth ◽

Initial Field

We introduce the umbrella construct of “motivational resilience and vulnerability in school” and explain how this special section contributes to initial field building efforts aimed at integrating complementary work on motivational, regulatory, developmental, and social processes that foster the academic development of children and youth.

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