First Compendium of Social Network Research Focusing on Children and Young Adult

<p>Research on adult personal-social networks has contributed greatly to an understanding of mental health illness and responses to stress. Fueled by this successful research and a growing concern for today's youth the contributors to this volume have conducted investigations into the functioning and structures of the social networks of toddlers school-age children adolescents and college students.<br><br> The editors of this volume move beyond vague generalizations about characteristic and behavior acquisition through socialization in childhood by applying a longitudinal perspective to the sampling of child adolescent and young-adult network research. Social Networks of Children Adolescents and College Students unites several major empirical studies of children's social networks investigating the acquisition of specific behaviors from particular groups of individuals under certain conditions.<br><br> Topics covered include:<br><br> * the effects of social networks on child development and disorder <br><br> * the relationship between social networks and coping with stress the role of friends or groups in positive socialization <br><br> * Of special interest to practitioners researchers and advanced students are: <br><br> * comparative data on children from other cultural groups and non-mainstream American youths descriptions and evaluations of methodologies <br><br> * introductory materials by the editors commenting on the field and the research extensive bibliographies</p>