Emotional Security and Conflict in Context: A Developmental Psychopathology Perspective on Youth Adjustment

By Kathleen Bergman and E Mark Cummings

Emotional Security and Conflict in Context: A Developmental Psychopathology Perspective on Youth Adjustment covers the effects of conflict on children. Moving beyond conflict in the family, over 1 billion children are affected by community and political conflict and war, which also has profound and long-lasting implications for development. This book integrates several theoretical models that are central to work in this field, providing a clear review of the literature in a way that systematically and logically flows. In addition, it discusses child development from a developmental psychopathology perspective.Finally, the book integrates perspectives on violence and conflict across the social ecology, as well as several theoretical frameworks that are core to the field.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0128217782
• ISBN13: 9780128217788
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 320 Pages