Handbook on Positive Development of Minority Children and Youth

This Handbook presents current research on children and youth in ethnic minority families. It reflects the development currently taking place in the field of social sciences research to highlight the positive adaptation of minority children and youth. It offers a succinct synthesis of where the field is and where it needs to go. It brings together an international group of leading researchers, and, in view of globalization and increased migration and immigration, it addresses what aspects of children and youth growing in ethnic minority families are universal across contexts and what aspects are more context-specific. The Handbook examines the individual, family, peers, and neighborhood/policy factors that protect children and promote positive adaptation. It examines the factors that support children’s social integration, psychosocial adaptation, and external functioning. Finally, it looks at the mechanisms that explain why social adaptation occurs. Front Matter....Pages i-xxxiv Front Matter....Pages 1-3 Positive Youth Development Among Minority Youth: A Relational Developmental Systems Model....Pages 5-17 A Resilience Perspective on Immigrant Youth Adaptation and Development....Pages 19-34 Measuring Positive Development I: Multilevel Analysis....Pages 35-52 Equivalence in Research on Positive Development of Minority Children: Methodological Approaches....Pages 53-66 Front Matter....Pages 67-69 Parental Sensitivity and Attachment in Ethnic Minority Families....Pages 71-88 Conceptualizing Variability in U.S. Latino Children’s Dual-Language Development....Pages 89-106 An International Perspective on Parenting and Children’s Adjustment....Pages 107-122 Cultural Identity Development as a Developmental Resource....Pages 123-137 Differential Susceptibility in Minority Children: Individual Differences in Environmental Sensitivity....Pages 139-152 Front Matter....Pages 153-156 Parenting and Families in the United States and Canada....Pages 157-173 Family Resources for Promoting Positive Development Among Minority Children: European Perspectives....Pages 175-195 Minority Fathers and Children’s Positive Development in the United States....Pages 197-216 Language and Parenting: Minority Languages in North America....Pages 217-230 Minority Language Parenting in Europe and Children’s Well-Being....Pages 231-246 Front Matter....Pages 247-248 Interethnic Friendship Formation....Pages 249-266 The Friendships of Racial–Ethnic Minority Youth in Context....Pages 267-280 Minority and Majority Children’s Evaluations of Social Exclusion in Intergroup Contexts....Pages 281-293 Children’s Social–Emotional Development in Contexts of Peer Exclusion....Pages 295-306 Positive Youth Development of Roma Ethnic Minority Across Europe....Pages 307-320 Front Matter....Pages 321-323 Promoting Positive Self-Esteem in Ethnic Minority Students: The Role of School and Classroom Context....Pages 325-342 Front Matter....Pages 321-323 Parental Educational Involvement and Latino Children’s Academic Attainment....Pages 343-359 Using Self-Regulated Learning as a Framework for Creating Inclusive Classrooms for Ethnically and Linguistically Diverse Learners in Canada....Pages 361-377 Front Matter....Pages 379-383 Documentation Status and Child Development in the U.S. and Europe....Pages 385-400 Research on Positive Youth Development in Boys of Color: Implications for Intervention and Policy....Pages 401-419 Civic Engagement as an Adaptive Coping Response to Conditions of Inequality: An Application of Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory (PVEST)....Pages 421-435 Developing an Ethnic-Racial Identity Intervention from a Developmental Perspective: Process, Content, and Implementation of the Identity Project....Pages 437-453 Children’s Centres: An English Intervention for Families Living in Disadvantaged Communities....Pages 455-470 Instructional Practice with Young Bilingual Learners: A Canadian Profile....Pages 471-489