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.

• Introduces Emotional Security Theory as a way to understand links between conflict and adjustment
• Presents the basic principles of DP: pathways of development, understanding normal development from a DP perspective, risk and protective factors and resilience
• Describes ways in which translational work can be extended to support families in contexts of political violence and armed conflict
• Emphasizes the differences between constructive and destructive research