Stress Coping and Development in Children

How does stress affect the coping abilities of children? Is response to stress a matter of nature nurture or both? Is stress good bad or neutral? <P>From a multiplicity of viewpoints twelve eminent researchers and clinicians here examine the problems of stress in children. Considering stress from a neurochemical as well as a developmental perspective they examine a wide range of specific stressors including prematurity hospitalization birth of a sibling deprivation death of a parent divorce and war. Stress Coping and Development in Children is a work of signal importance to psychologists and to every mental health professional involved with infants and children.