The Effects of Poverty on the Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Health of Children and Youth: Implications for Prevention

Autor/inn/en	Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Aber, J. Lawrence; Beardslee, William R.
Titel	The Effects of Poverty on the Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Health of Children and Youth: Implications for Prevention
Quelle	In: American Psychologist, 67 (2012) 4, S.272-284 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0003-066X
DOI	10.1037/a0028015
Schlagwörter	Poverty; Children; Adolescents; Youth; Mental Health; Emotional Development; Student Behavior; Context Effect; Child Development; Low Income Groups; Neighborhoods; Family Environment; Prevention; Social Science Research; Public Policy; Resource Allocation; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Armut; Child; Kind; Kinder; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Psychohygiene; Gefühlsbildung; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Kindesentwicklung; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Familienmilieu; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Social scientific research; Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung; Öffentliche Ordnung; Ressourcenallokation; USA
Abstract	This article considers the implications for prevention science of recent advances in research on family poverty and children's mental, emotional, and behavioral health. First, we describe definitions of poverty and the conceptual and empirical challenges to estimating the causal effects of poverty on children's mental, emotional, and behavioral health. Second, we offer a conceptual framework that incorporates selection processes that affect who becomes poor as well as mechanisms through which poverty appears to influence child and youth mental health. Third, we use this conceptual framework to selectively review the growing literatures on the mechanisms through which family poverty influences the mental, emotional, and behavioral health of children. We illustrate how a better understanding of the mechanisms of effect by which poverty impacts children's mental, emotional, and behavioral health is valuable in designing effective preventive interventions for those in poverty. Fourth, we describe strategies to directly reduce poverty and the implications of these strategies for prevention. This article is one of three in a special section (see also Biglan, Flay, Embry, & Sandler, 2012; Munoz, Beardslee, & Leykin, 2012) representing an elaboration on a theme for prevention science developed by the 2009 report of the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine. (Contains 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10