Developmental Tasks under Pressure in Children and Adolescents

Dear Colleagues,

Socio-emotional development is essential in growing up to lead a meaningful life as a human being. Stressors at both the intra-individual level, (i.e., cognitions, motivation, attachment styles, emotion regulation skills) and the inter-individual level (i.e., parenting, systemic dynamics, intergenerational attachment patterns) can impact socio-emotional development. As such, it is important to understand these stressors in more depth and breadth on a conceptual level and how, when and for whom they impact socio-emotional development during childhood and adolescence. Moreover, to a great extent, problematic behaviors in children and adolescents stem from thwarted socio-emotional development. In our view, generic interventions aimed at both intra- and inter-individual level stressors, or in other words, child and context, need to be underlined. A specific arena wherein generic interventions are the pinnacle of the clinical context is crisis care, where children and adolescents present with a host of problematic and severe behaviors warranting generic interventions. Nevertheless, research into crisis care for youths is very scarce, highlighting the importance of this Special Issue.

Dr. Lisanne Stone
Guest Editor

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• intra-individual stressors: cognitions, emotion regulation, attachment styles
• interindividual stressors: parenting, systemic dynamics, intergenerational attachment patterns
• developmental tasks
• clinical contexts: crisis care, suicidality, eating disorders, (endangered) personality development, personality disorders, intensive home treatment, attachment-based family therapy, systems therapy