Development of Coping

This book traces the development of coping from birth to emerging adulthood by building a conceptual and empirical bridge between coping and the development of regulation and resilience. It offers a comprehensive overview of the challenges facing the developmental study of coping, including the history of the concept, critiques of current coping theories and research, and reviews of age differences and changes in coping during childhood and adolescence. It integrates multiple strands of cutting-edge theory and research, including work on the development of stress neurophysiology, attachment, emotion regulation, and executive functions. In addition, chapters track how coping develops, starting from birth and following its progress across multiple qualitative shifts during childhood and adolescence. The book identifies factors that shape the development of coping, focusing on the effects of underlying neurobiological changes, social relationships, and stressful experiences. Qualitative shifts are emphasized and explanatory factors highlight multiple entry points for the diagnosis of problems and implementation of remedial and preventive interventions. Topics featured in this text include: Developmental conceptualizations of coping, such as action regulation under stress. Neurophysiological developments that underlie age-related shifts in coping. How coping is shaped by early adversity, temperament, and attachment. How parenting and family factors affect the development of coping. The role of coping in the development of psychopathology and resilience. The Development of Coping is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians and related professionals in developmental, clinical child, and school psychology, public health, counseling, personality and social psychology, and neurophysiological psychology as well as prevention and intervention science.

Preface; Stress, Risk, and Resilience; The Study of Coping; Development and Coping; Purpose of this Book; Contents; About the Authors; Constructing "Developmentally-Friendly" Conceptualizations of Coping; 1 Coping as Action Regulation under Stress; 1.1 Coping as a Fundamental Adaptive Process; 1.1.1 Overview of Conceptualizations of Coping and a Focus on Individual Differences; 1.1.2 Multi-level Integrative Systems Frameworks: Coping, Regulation, and Resilience; 1.2 Developmentally-Friendly Conceptualizations of Coping; 1.2.1 Coping as Regulation under Stress

1.2.2 Coping and Emotion Regulation1.2.3 Action and Action Theories; 1.2.4 The Nature of Regulation; 1.2.5 Coping Is Built on Action Tendencies; 1.2.6 Stress and Regulation; 1.3 Summary of Developmental Conceptualizations of Coping; 2 Ways and Families of Coping as Adaptive Processes; 2.1 The Structure of Coping; 2.1.1 Lower-Order Ways of Coping; 2.1.2 Higher-Order Dimensions and Categories of Coping; 2.1.3 Families of Coping as Serving Adaptive Functions; 2.2 "Good News" and "Bad News" Ways of Coping; 2.2.1 Developmentally Adaptive Families of Coping

2.2.2 The Balance Between Challenge and Threat2.2.3 Good News Families of…