Child mistreatment, including peer mistreatment is widely prevalent today. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one in two children (aged 2 – 17 years) suffered violence in the past year. Decades of research have shown that exposure to childhood adversity and traumatic stress have profound effects on development. Although child mistreatment is related to a host of negative sequalae, research also shows it is not deterministic. Individual (e.g., having a disability, identifying or identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender), community, and societal (e.g., norms or beliefs endorsing a climate of mistreatment) risk and protective (e.g., support) factors interact across multiple settings to affect children’s developmental outcomes. Understanding the mechanisms of resilience within the context of applied settings is essential to develop and sustain effective prevention and intervention programs over time.
This Research Topic aims to increase our understanding of the role of specific protective and promotive factors that mitigate the risk for psychopathology and optimize developmental outcomes among children and adolescents after adversity and traumatic stress. Special emphasis will be placed on identifying mediating mechanisms of resilience in the context of applied settings (e.g., clinical, school, and community). Strength-based explanations that incorporate social determinants of health and/or ecological frameworks remain understudied and underutilized in prevention efforts and clinical intervention. Recent research has identified a significant gap in applying research findings in contextually valid settings (i.e., research to practice gap)
All article types of the Journal are welcome, including original research and reviews.
Subtopics of interest include:
• Increasing resilience and protective factors among at-risk or trauma-exposed populations using school-based and/or community approaches.
• Lessons learned in working in Community Engaged Research.
• The study of youth resilience or psychopathology in ecologically valid settings.
• Engaging schools, public service organizations, and communities to promote protective factors and resilience in adolescent populations.
• Special consideration will be given to research studies conducted in ecologically valid contexts using mixed methods methodology.
Keywords:
Child mistreatment, peer mistreatment, resilience, prevention of mistreatment
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
Child mistreatment, including peer mistreatment is widely prevalent today. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), one in two children (aged 2 – 17 years) suffered violence in the past year. Decades of research have shown that exposure to childhood adversity and traumatic stress have profound effects on development. Although child mistreatment is related to a host of negative sequalae, research also shows it is not deterministic. Individual (e.g., having a disability, identifying or identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender), community, and societal (e.g., norms or beliefs endorsing a climate of mistreatment) risk and protective (e.g., support) factors interact across multiple settings to affect children’s developmental outcomes. Understanding the mechanisms of resilience within the context of applied settings is essential to develop and sustain effective prevention and intervention programs over time.
This Research Topic aims to increase our understanding of the role of specific protective and promotive factors that mitigate the risk for psychopathology and optimize developmental outcomes among children and adolescents after adversity and traumatic stress. Special emphasis will be placed on identifying mediating mechanisms of resilience in the context of applied settings (e.g., clinical, school, and community). Strength-based explanations that incorporate social determinants of health and/or ecological frameworks remain understudied and underutilized in prevention efforts and clinical intervention. Recent research has identified a significant gap in applying research findings in contextually valid settings (i.e., research to practice gap)
All article types of the Journal are welcome, including original research and reviews.
Subtopics of interest include:
• Increasing resilience and protective factors among at-risk or trauma-exposed populations using school-based and/or community approaches.
• Lessons learned in working in Community Engaged Research.
• The study of youth resilience or psychopathology in ecologically valid settings.
• Engaging schools, public service organizations, and communities to promote protective factors and resilience in adolescent populations.
• Special consideration will be given to research studies conducted in ecologically valid contexts using mixed methods methodology.
Keywords:
Child mistreatment, peer mistreatment, resilience, prevention of mistreatment
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.