The Transactional Model of Development: How Children and Contexts Shape Each Other

This book documents the state-of-the-art research in developmental psychology for overcoming inadequacies in conceptual models, experimental designs, or statistical methodologies and presents new ideas for future work.

Table of Contents:
Contributors Preface            I. Introduction The Transactional Model  -Arnold Sameroff Designs for Transactional Research  -Arnold Sameroff  II. Parents and Children Transactions Between Perception and Reality: Maternal Beliefs and Infant Regulatory Behavior  -Michael J. MacKenzie and Susan C. McDonough Expanding Concepts of Self-Regulation to Social Relationships: Transactional Processes in the Development of Early Behavioral Adjustment  -Sheryl L. Olson and Erika S. Lunkenheimer Developmental Transactions Between Boys' Conduct Problems and Mothers' Depressive Symptoms  -Daniel S. Shaw, Heather E. Gross, and Kristin L. Moilanen Predicting and Preventing Child Maltreatment: A Biocognitive Transactional Approach  -Daphne Bugental Social Information Processing and Aggressive Behavior: A Transactional Perspective  -Reid Griffith Fontaine and Kenneth A. Dodge  III. Socialization and Education Toward A Model of Culture amp lt - amp gt Parent amp lt - amp gt Child Transactions  -Marc H. Bornstein Social and Cultural Transactions in Cognitive Development: A Cross-Generational View  -Mary Gauvain The Transition to School: Child-Instruction Transactions in Learning to Read  -Frederick J. Morrison and Carol McDonald Connor Parent Learning Support and Child Reading Ability: A Cross-Lagged Panel Analysis for Developmental Transactions  -Elizabeth T. Gershoff, J. Lawrence Aber, and Margaret Clements  IV. New Directions Transactions and Statistical Modeling: Developmental Theory Wagging the Statistical Tail  -Richard Gonzalez Pursuing a Dialectical Perspective on Transaction: A Social Relational Theory of Micro Family Processes  -Leon Kuczynski and C. Melanie Parkin  V. Afterword What Is a Transaction  -Alan Fogel Index About the Editor

About the Author :
Arnold Sameroff, PhD, a developmental psychologist, is currently professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, where he is also chair of the Developmental Psychology Graduate Training Program and director of the Development and Mental Health Research Program at the Center for Human Growth and Development.   His influential theoretical work on ecological transactional models of development has helped to move researchers to more dynamic, system-based research efforts for understanding healthy child development, and his research on environmental risk and promotive factors has fostered a more comprehensive understanding of what is necessary to improve the cognitive and social amp ndash emotional welfare of children. Among the high-risk groups he is currently studying are infants with physiologic regulatory problems, children with depressed parents, adolescents living in low-resource neighborhoods, and adults reared in families with parental mental illness.   He has published numerous research articles and 2 books and monographs, including The Five to Seven Year Shift: The Age of Reason and Responsibility Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology Treating Early Relationship Problems: Infant, Parent, and Interaction Therapies and, with Sheryl Olson, the forthcoming Regulatory Processes in the Development of Behavior Problems: Biological, Behavioral, and Social amp ndash Ecological Interactions.   Among his honors are the Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award from the Society for Research in Child Development and the G. Stanley Hall Award from Division 7 (Developmental Psychology) of the American Psychological Association. He is former president of Division 7 of the American Psychological Association and the International Society for Infant Studies and is current president of the Society for Research in Child Development.