Download or read book Positive Development of Minority Children written by Natasha J. Cabrera and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper summarises the research evidence on the positive development of minority children in the United States. Sections include: SRCD efforts to advance?research on minority children; What do we know about the life course of?children, youth, and families who are not white?; How should we conduct research with minority families?; Resilience versus positive development; How families and parents foster positive adaptation; and, Lessons and implications. Commentaries on this paper are also included: Minority children? the future majority of the USA, by Cynthia Garcia Coll; Developing a fully specified conceptual framework to guide research and practice in support of the positive development of minority children, by Ivelisse Martinez-Beck; and What are we studying when we study children of color? Asking new questions, advancing new perspectives, by Vonnie C. Mcloyd.