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Charles Oberg is pediatrician and Professor Emeritus in Public Health at the University of Minnesota, USA. He is an outspoken advocate for children's rights and has an extensive teaching and research background in child development, pediatrics, and public health. Clinically, he has provided care to refugee and immigrant children both at home as well as abroad in low and middle income countries (LMIC).

Hopewell R. Hodges is an advanced doctoral student and PhD candidate in clinical and developmental psychology at the University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development. In addition to providing therapy to children and families exposed to multisystem stressors and traumas, she conducts community-based research on strategies to promote resilient development.

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This important book combines insights from disciplines as diverse as developmental psychopathology, pediatrics, and public policy to offer a detailed description of the impact of global crises such as armed conflict, climate change, and environmental degradation on the developing child.

The book explores both the direct harms of these crises as well as those caused indirectly including family separation, strained caregiving relationships, loss of cultural resources, and damage to children's self-efficacy and emotion regulation abilities. Using case studies from the last few decades, the authors demonstrate the interconnectedness of seemingly disparate systems such as soil health, family cohesion, individual coping skills, nutrition availability, and economic policy, all with an eye to the urgent developmental processes unfolding within and around the child.

This text is core reading for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students in child psychology, social work, public health, health care, public policy, and public affairs. Also, by offering several roadmaps by which individuals, organizations, communities, and nations may leverage resources at each level of a child's ecology to support healthy development, this book will be of interest to professionals working in humanitarian sectors as well as leaders in global pediatrics.

Inhalt

List of Figures and Tables

Case Studies

About the Author

Acknowledgements

Prologue

Introduction

Part I. INTRODUCTION - CATASTROPHIC CONFLUENCE

Chapter 1. Armed Conflict in the 21st Century

Chapter 2. Weather and Environment in the 21st Century

Chapter 3. Climate Change-The Existential Multiplier

Part II. INTRODUCTION - IMPLICATION FOR CHILD SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Chapter 4. The Child

Chapter 5. The Microsystem & Attachment

Chapter 6. The Mesosystem & Exosystem- Self-esteem, Mastery, Competence, Identity

Chapter 7. The Macrosystem & Gender Equity: Education, Child Marriage, FGM

Chapter 8. The Chronosystem & Lifecourse Trajectories

PART III. INTRODUCTION - SOCIETAL FLASHPOINTS

Chapter 9. Displacement/Migration & Children on the Move

Chapter 1**0.** Convergence of Conflict & Climate in the Sahel of Africa

Chapter 1**1.** Genocide, War Crimes & Crimes Against Humanity

Chapter 12. Child Labor vs. Education

Chapter 13. Technology Innovation

Chapter 14. Indigenous Populations

Chapter 15. The Exceptional Child

PART IV. INTRODUCTION - INTERVENTIONS & SOLUTIONS

Chapter 16. Trauma Informed Care

Chapter 1**7.** Child Rights and UNICEF Child Friendly Cities Initiative

Chapter 18. DRC & Resilience Systems

Chapter 19. Bearing Witness Through Research

Chapter 20. Advocacy & Creative Expression

Chapter 21. Protest and Youth Voices in the 21st Century

Chapter 22. Promoting Peace & Social Justice

Chapter 23. Climate Champions & Solutions

Epilogue: A Clarion Call for Hope, Hospitality & Renewal