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In a companion volume to their highly acclaimed book Overcoming the
Odds, Emmy E. Werner and Ruth S. Smith continue their longitudinal
study of approximately five hundred men and women who were born in
1955 on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. A third of these individuals
had been considered "at risk" because of birth complications,
parental mental illness, family dysfunction, and adverse early
conditions such as poverty. Werner and Smith examine the long-term
impact of these influences on the individuals' later adaptation to
life.Drawing on data collected by a team of psychologists,
pediatricians, social workers, and public health nurses across four
decades, Werner and Smith chronicle the development of these men
and women from birth to midlife: infancy, early and middle
childhood, late adolescence, and early and middle adulthood. Their
book focuses on protective factors within the individual, the
extended family, and the community that allowed most of the men and
women to be successful and to be satisfied with their lives by age
forty. Most important, the authors document the remarkable
resilience and capacity for recovery displayed by the majority of
these baby boomers, who approached middle age as competent,
confident, and caring adults. Journeys from Childhood to Midlife
highlights key turning points in the third and fourth decades of
life, and shows why more women than men succeeded in overcoming the
odds. The work addresses the policy implications of the research
and the need to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of current
intervention programs for children.
Overcoming the Odds looks closely at the lives of an ethnically
diverse group of 505 men and women who were born in 1955 on the
Hawaiian island of Kauai and who have been monitored from the
prenatal period through early adulthood by psychologists,
pediatricians, public health professionals, and social workers.
Werner and Smith trace the impact of a variety of biological and
psycho-social risk factors and stressful events on the development
of these individuals, most of whose parents did not graduate from
high school and worked as semiskilled or unskilled laborers.
Incorporating vivid case study accounts with statistical analysis,
the authors focus on both the vulnerability and the resilience of
those who overcame great odds to grow into competent and caring
adults. They trace the recovery process through which most of the
troubled adolescents in the cohort—those with histories of
delinquency, teenage pregnancy, and mental health
problems—emerged with improved prospects in their twenties and
early thirties. Identifying both the self-righting tendencies that
enable high risk children later to adapt successfully to work,
marriage, and parenthood, and the conditions under which
professional and volunteer care is most beneficial, Werner and
Smith offer concrete suggestions for effective intervention
policies.
In a companion volume to their highly acclaimed book Overcoming the
Odds, Emmy E. Werner and Ruth S. Smith continue their longitudinal
study of approximately five hundred men and women who were born in
1955 on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. A third of these individuals
had been considered "at risk" because of birth complications,
parental mental illness, family dysfunction, and adverse early
conditions such as poverty. Werner and Smith examine the long-term
impact of these influences on the individuals' later adaptation to
life.Drawing on data collected by a team of psychologists,
pediatricians, social workers, and public health nurses across four
decades, Werner and Smith chronicle the development of these men
and women from birth to midlife: infancy, early and middle
childhood, late adolescence, and early and middle adulthood. Their
book focuses on protective factors within the individual, the
extended family, and the community that allowed most of the men and
women to be successful and to be satisfied with their lives by age
forty. Most important, the authors document the remarkable
resilience and capacity for recovery displayed by the majority of
these baby boomers, who approached middle age as competent,
confident, and caring adults. Journeys from Childhood to Midlife
highlights key turning points in the third and fourth decades of
life, and shows why more women than men succeeded in overcoming the
odds. The work addresses the policy implications of the research
and the need to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of current
intervention programs for children.
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