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This page intentionally left blank nature and nurture in early child development Fordevelopmentalscientists,thenatureversusnurturedebatehasbeensettled for some time. Neither nature nor nurture alone provides the answer. It is nature and nurture in concert that shape developmental pathways and out- comes, from health to behavior to competence. This insight has moved far beyondtheassertionthatbothnatureandnurturematter,progressingintothe fascinatingterrainofhowtheyinteractoverthecourseofdevelopment.Inthis book,students,practitioners,policyanalysts,andotherswithaseriousinterest in human development will learn what is transpiring in this new paradigm from the developmental scientists working at the cutting edge, from neural mechanismstopopulationstudies,andfrombasiclaboratorysciencetoclini- calandcommunityinterventions.Earlychildhooddevelopmentisthecritical focusofthisbook,becausemanyoftheimportantnature-nurtureinteractions occurthen,withsignificantinfluencesonlifelongdevelopmentaltrajectories. Daniel P. Keating is Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Pediatrics; Re- search Professor at the Center for Human Growth and Development; and Faculty Associate in the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research,allattheUniversityofMichigan.HeisalsoaFellowoftheCanadian InstituteforAdvancedResearch(CIFAR)andamemberofCIFAR’sSuccessful SocietiesProgram.KeatinghasheldpositionsattheUniversityofMinnesota; the University of Maryland; the Max Planck Institute for Human Develop- ment and Education in Berlin, Germany; and the University of Toronto. He hasoccasionallyappearedontelevision,includingonthePhilDonahueShow and the Vision series on TV Ontario. He has also been a guest on radio talk shows featured on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and the AustralianBroadcastingCorporation(ABC),focusedmainlyonhisbook(with ClydeHertzman),DevelopmentalHealthandtheWealthofNations(1999).Cur- rently,muchofhisworkfocusesonthejust-launchedNationalChildren’sStudy, forwhichheservesasaninvestigatorinanumberofcapacities. Nature and Nurture in Early Child Development Editedby Daniel P. Keating UniversityofMichigan cambridgeuniversitypress Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore, Sa˜oPaulo,Delhi,Dubai,Tokyo,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress 32AvenueoftheAmericas,NewYork,NY10013-2473,USA www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521840408 (cid:2)C CambridgeUniversityPress2011 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2011 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationdata Natureandnurtureinearlychilddevelopment/editedbyDanielP.Keating. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-521-84040-8(hardback) 1.Natureandnurture. 2.Geneticpsychology. 3.Childpsychology. I.Keating, DanielP.,1949– II.Title. BF341.N377 2010 155.42(cid:3)2–dc22 2010030830 ISBN978-0-521-84040-8Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyofURLsfor externalorthird-partyInternetWebsitesreferredtointhispublicationanddoesnotguarantee thatanycontentonsuchWebsitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. contents Contributors pagevii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 DanielP.Keating 1 BiologicalandExperientialInfluencesonPsychological Development 7 MichaelRutter 2 NeuralDevelopmentandLifelongPlasticity 45 CharlesA.NelsonIII 3 MotherandChild:PreparingforaLife 70 RonaldG.Barr 4 EarlyExperienceandStressRegulationinHuman Development 97 MeganR.GunnarandMichelleM.Loman 5 BiologyandContext:SymphonicCausationand theDistributionofChildhoodMorbidities 114 W.ThomasBoyce 6 UnderstandingWithin-FamilyVariabilityinChildren’s ResponsestoEnvironmentalStress 145 JenniferJenkinsandRossanaBisceglia 7 Origins,Development,andPreventionofAggressiveBehavior 169 RichardE.Tremblay v vi Contents 8 MentalHealthInterventioninInfancyandEarlyChildhood 188 AliciaF.LiebermanandChandraGhoshIppen 9 BringingaPopulationHealthPerspectivetoEarly Biodevelopment:AnEmergingApproach 217 ClydeHertzman 10 SocietyandEarlyChildDevelopment:DevelopmentalHealth DisparitiesintheNature-and-NurtureParadigm 245 DanielP.Keating Index 293 contributors ronald g. barr, ma, mdcm, frcp(c), is Professor of Pediatrics at the UniversityofBritishColumbiaFacultyofMedicine;HeadofDevelopmen- tal Sciences and Child Health at the Child and Family Research Institute of BC Children’s Hospital; and a Canada Research Chair in Community Child Health Research at the University of British Columbia. He is the formerDirectorandiscurrentlyFellowoftheExperience-BasedBrainand BiologicalDevelopment Program of the Canadian Institute forAdvanced Research. He received his medical training (MDCM) at McGill Univer- sity and specialty training in pediatrics and child development at McGill (MontrealChildren’sHospital)andHarvardUniversity(Children’sHospi- talMedicalCenter).Hestudiesthebiologicalandbehavioralco-regulatory determinants of behavior and has applied these concepts to the develop- ment of a primary educational prevention program for shaken baby syndrome (abusive head trauma) and infant abuse called the Period of PURPLECryingincollaborationwiththeNationalCenteronShakenBaby Syndrome. rossanabiscegliaisadoctoralcandidateintheDevelopmentalPsychol- ogy and Education program at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include understanding the complex processes that contribute to psychopathologyinchildrenandadolescents.Herdissertationfocuseson thedevelopmentalprocessesthatinfluencemothers’sensitiverespondingto theirinfants.Thethesiswillalsoexaminetherelationshipbetweenmaternal sensitivityandthevasopressinV1areceptor(AVPR1A)gene,andhowthis geneoperatesinconjunctionwithenvironmentalinfluencesininfluencing mothers’sensitivity. w. thomas boyce, md, is the Sunny Hill Health Centre/BC Leadership Chair in Child Development in the Human Early Learning Partnership andtheCentreforCommunityChildHealthResearchattheUniversityof vii viii Contributors BritishColumbia.HeisalsoCo-DirectoroftheExperience-BasedBrainand BiologicalDevelopment Program of the Canadian Institute forAdvanced Research. He completed his BA at Stanford University, an MD at Baylor Collegeof Medicine, and pediatric residency training at the University of California,SanFrancisco(UCSF).HewasnamedaRobertWoodJohnson FoundationClinicalScholarattheUniversityofNorthCarolinaandserved on the pediatrics and public health faculties of UCSF and UC Berkeley. As a social epidemiologist and a developmental–behavioral pediatrician, hisresearchaddresseshowneurogenomicandpsychosocialprocesseswork togethertoleadtodifferencesinchildhooddiseaseacrossdifferentsocio- economicgroups. megan r. gunnar, phd, is a Regents Professor of Child Psychology at theInstituteofChildDevelopment,UniversityofMinnesota.Herresearch interestsfocusontheeffectofadverseearlylifecareonthedevelopmentof stressandemotionreactivityandregulation.ProfessorGunnarisamember oftheSocietyforResearchinChildDevelopment,theInternationalSociety onInfantStudies,theInternationalSocietyofPsychoneuroendocrinology, theAmericanPsychologicalSociety,andtheAmericanPsychologicalAsso- ciation.ShedirectsaNationalInstituteofMentalHealth–supportedInter- disciplinaryDevelopmentalScienceCenteronEarlyExperience,Stress,and NeurobehavioralDevelopmentandisamemberoftheCanadianInstitute forAdvancedResearchProgramonExperience-BasedBrainandBiological Development. clydehertzman,md,frcp(c),isDirectoroftheHumanEarlyLearning Partnership(HELP),CollegeforInterdisciplinaryStudiesattheUniversity of British Columbia (UBC); Tier I Canada Research Chair in Population HealthandHumanDevelopment;andProfessorintheSchoolofPopulation andPublicHealthatUBC.Nationally,heisaFellowoftheExperience-Based Brain and Biological Development Program and the Successful Societies ProgramoftheCanadianInstituteforAdvancedResearch.HeisaFellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.Since2008,hehasbeenPresidentoftheCanadianCouncilonEarly ChildDevelopment.HeholdsanhonoraryappointmentattheInstitutefor ChildHealth,UniversityCollege,London. chandraghoshippen,phd,isAssociateResearchDirectoroftheChild Trauma Research Program at the University of California, San Francisco, and the Early Trauma Treatment Network, which is a member of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). She has worked on
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