ArticleChild development perspectives2015
Development of Maladaptive Coping: A Functional Adaptation to Chronic, Uncontrollable Stress.
Article in Child development perspectives, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 95 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Pre-adolescent Stress and Health Study
Effectiveness of the SoundHeal (Heal) Multi-Sensory Integrative Therapy in Enhancing Emotional Regulation Among Justice-Involved Youth and Its Effect on Therapeutic Alliance and Mental Health Outcomes
Who cites it
95 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Coping, emotion regulation, and psychopathology in childhood and adolescence: A meta-analysis and narrative review.Psychological bulletin · 2017Pooled it
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- Reducing the Biological and Psychological Toxicity of Poverty-related Stress: Initial Efficacy of the BaSICS Intervention for Early Adolescents.American journal of community psychology · 2020Trial
- Coping in context: The effects of long-term relations between interparental conflict and coping on the development of child psychopathology following parental divorce.Development and psychopathology · 2019Trial
- Targeting the Proximal Mechanisms of Stress Adaptation in Early Adolescence to Prevent Mental Health Problems in Youth in Poverty.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Trial
- The neuropsychological impact of early childhood trauma on cognitive development: A narrative review of mechanisms, outcomes, and interventions.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2026Review
- Early Childhood Cumulative Risk and Temperament Predict Preadolescent Appraisal and Coping and Adolescent Psychopathology.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2026Article
- Children's coping with family stressors: Criterion profile analysis of patterns, levels, and mental health problems.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2026Article
- Perceived Stress in Adolescence: Structure, Stability, and Its Relationship with Mental Health.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2026Article
- The Mediating Role of Parental Emotional Distress in the Relationship Between Neuroticism and Children's Emotional and Behavioral Problems: A Network Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling Study.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Traumatic life experiences during critical periods lead to diverse developmental trajectories.Cell reports. Medicine · 2026Article
- Why do we seek information about the future? On the origins of subjective value without instrumental value.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- A narrative review of mental health interventions and biopsychosocial risk factors in adolescent athletes.Discover mental health · 2026Review
- Within-person trends in anxiety, depression, and social isolation among first-year college students before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.The American journal of orthopsychiatry · 2026Article
- Is negative coping necessarily "bad"? State anxiety and college student adjustment: a three-way interaction model.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Prospective links between childhood family income and subclinical atherosclerosis in a sample of young men.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2026Article
- Refining the Multidimensional Measure of Coping for Adolescents: Psychometric Validation of a Short Form and Its Higher-Order Structure in Chinese Adolescents.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Navigating the Emotional Challenges of Grade School: The Influence of Early Family Strains and a Lack of Parental Responsiveness on Trajectories of Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms.Family process · 2026Article
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Abstract
Health disparities are rooted in childhood and stem from adverse early environments that damage physiologic stress-response systems. Developmental psychobiological models of the effects of chronic stress account for both the negative effects of a stress-response system calibrated to a dangerous and unpredictable environment from a health perspective, and the positive effects of such an adaptively calibrated stress response from a functional perspective. Our research suggests that contexts that produce functionally adapted physiologic responses to stress also encourage a functionally adapted coping response-coping that can result in maladjustment in physical and mental health, but enables children to grow and develop within those contexts. In this article, I highlight the value of reframing maladaptive coping as functional adaptation to understand more completely the development of children's coping in different contexts, and the value of such a conceptual shift for coping-based theory, research, and intervention.
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