Michael J. Boivin • Bruno Giordani
Editors

2013

Perspectives on Risk and Resilience

The Purpose of This Book Children in Africa face an astounding array of risk factors in their development, stemming from grinding poverty and from the myriad public health and educational challenges affl icting most of the continent. Because the developmental milieu for African children can vary so dramatically, this population provides fertile ground for the study of how brain/behavior development refl ects both vulnerability and resilience in the face of impoverishment, war and displacement, and disease.