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About the Author
Dr. Valerie Maholmes has devoted her career to studying factors that affect child developmental outcomes. Low-income minority children have been a particular focus of her research, practical, and civic work. She has been a faculty member at the Yale Child Study Center in the Yale School of Medicine where she held the Irving B. Harris Assistant Professorship of Child Psychiatry, an endowed professorial chair. While at Yale Dr. Maholmes worked in numerous capacities including Director of Research and Policy at the School Development Program. She has served on numerous professional boards and was also a member of the New Haven Board of Education where she served as Vice President/Secretary.
Reviews
The stories in the book illustrate how by fostering hope of a different life in young people they can, with support, use the resources around them, however scarce, to lift themselves out of poverty. * Trish Joscelyne, The Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy *
The book serves as a solid overview of strategies that can be used to motivate students to succeed, and it is a strong reminder that dropout prevention efforts would do well to examine social factors in a youths ultimate decision to drop out or remain in school... As opposed to youth-centered approaches, Maholmes book takes an environmentally based approach through the lens of hope, which may spur innovative ways of thinking about social factors that have heretofore been neglected in dropout prevention efforts (Ungar, Ghazinour, & Richter, 2013). Clearly, more work needs to be done before Maholmes premise is realized, and there is much to learn about the complex relation between hope and intrapersonal/social contexts. Nevertheless, Fostering Resilience and Well-Being in Children and Families in Poverty: Why Hope Still Matters is a welcome first-step to this end. * PsycCritiques *
Book Information
ISBN 9780199959525
Author Valerie Maholmes
Format Hardback
Page Count 236
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 454g
Dimensions(mm) 160mm * 236mm * 23mm