What childhood classroom practices support children’s social, emotional, and cognitive growth? Topics include creating a positive classroom climate, encouraging high quality instruction, and facilitating cooperative interactions among children. Materials provide…

Youth in Northern Ireland: Linking Violence Exposure, Emotional Insecurity, and the Political Macrosystem
By Dana Townsend, Laura K. Taylor, Christine E. Merrilees, Andrea Furey, Marcie C. Goeke-Morey, Peter Shirlow, and E. Mark Cummings
Lessons from Youth in Northern Ireland: Building Measures, Methods, and Interventions | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. J. Lawrence Aber. I remember being a doctoral student of Edward Zigler’s at Yale in the 1970s and learning for the first time about the emerging work of Urie Bronfenbrenner at Cornell…
The Promise of Multisystem Research on Risk and Resilience in Development | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. Ann S. Masten. Multisystem perspectives and methods are essential for understanding and countering the challenges posed to child development and wellbeing by political violence, as well as by…
Individual Lives and Social History: Extending the Lessons of Macrosystem Research beyond Northern Ireland | Commentary
Commentary by Dr. Andres Molano. In the SRCD Monograph, Townsend, Taylor, Merrilees, Furey, Goeke-Morey, Shirlow, and Cummings (2020) explore how the longitudinal associations between sectarian violence and emotional insecurity are…
Overview: Youth Development in Northern Ireland | Video
Addressing a gap in more complete understanding of the impact of the social ecology of political violence on youth adjustment, an innovative methodology for assessing the influence of the macrosystem…
Key Findings from “Youth in Northern Ireland” | PowerPoint
Authors Dana Townsend and E. Mark Cummings prepared this PowerPoint document to summarize goals, methods, and findings of their monograph, Youth in Northern Ireland: Linking Violence Exposure, Emotional Insecurity…