Overcoming the Odds: High Risk Children from Birth to Adulthood

Emmy E. Werner; Ruth S. Smith

Published by Cornell University Press 1992

Overcoming the Odds

High Risk Children from Birth to Adulthood

Emmy E. Werner and Ruth S. Smith

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501711992

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About this book

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...

Author / Editor information

A developmental psychologist, Emmy E. Werner is Research Professor (Human Development) at the University of California, Davis. Ruth S. Smith is a licensed clinical psychologist on the island of Kauai. Werner and Smith are the coauthors of several books based on the Kauai study, including Vulnerable but Invincible.

Reviews

Sylvia Brody:

This fine account of the general course of the lives of high risk subjects who made adequate social adaptations tells the factors that enabled them to win a battle that so many in their socioeconomic strata lose.

K. G.:

Overcoming the Odds is of interest to researchers, as it documents the ways in which the study itself has grown over time. It is also of great value to educators, counselors, and administrators who take interest in the ways that the subjects of this study have overcome difficulties as children to lead healthy and productive adult lives.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The Context of the Study Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
3. Ordinary People Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
4. The Resilient Children in Adulthood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
5. Teenage Mothers in Later Years Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
6. Delinquents with and without Records of Adult Crimes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
7. Mental Health Problems: Troubled Youths Grown Up Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
8. Stressful Events in Childhood and Youth and Adult Adaptation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
9. Protective Factors and Adult Adaptation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
10. Summing Up Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Appendixes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Illustrations
- Other: 15 halftones, 1 map, 8 charts
Keywords: Psychology & Psychiatry; Sociology & Social Science

eBook

Published: June 30, 2019
ISBN: 9781501711992