Resilience is one of the most profound constructs across disciplines. Yet, the largely
atheoretical nature of the research on resilience continues to make it elusive. A new theory …

The allostatic load model expands the stress-disease literature by proposing a temporal
cascade of multi-systemic physiological dysregulations that contribute to disease …

In Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools
Can Do About It, veteran educator and brain expert Eric Jensen takes an unflinching look at …

Youth in underserved, urban communities are at risk for a range of negative outcomes
related to stress, including social-emotional difficulties, behavior problems, and poor …

Psychological stress during childhood and adolescence increases risk of health problems
across the lifecourse, and inflammation is implicated as an underlying mechanism. To …

Low socioeconomic status (SES) is a reliable correlate of poor physical health. Rather than
treat SES as a covariate, health psychology has increasingly focused on the …

The aim of this chapter is to specify the characteristics and processes of parent-child
relationships that sustain the centrality of the family amid the extensive changes of …

Living with persistent poverty is toxic for one's psychological health. This study examined
SES, income, neighborhood disadvantage, and poverty-related stress as predictors of a …

A growing body of cognitive research uses sophisticated behavioral and neuroimaging
measurements to demonstrate associations between family socioeconomic status (SES) and …

Health disparities (differences in health by socioeconomic groups) are a pressing issue in
our society. This article provides an overview of a multilevel approach that seeks to …