This handbook examines the effects and influences on child and youth development of prejudice
discrimination and inequity as well as other critical contexts including implicit bias
explicit racism post immigration processes social policies parenting and media influences.
It traces the impact of bias and discrimination on children from infancy through emerging
adulthood with implications for later years. The handbook explores ways in which the expanding
social economic and racial inequities in society are linked to increases in negative outcomes
for children through exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Chapters examine a range
of ACEs - low income separation divorce family substance abuse and mental illness exposure
to neighborhood and or domestic violence parental incarceration immigration and displacement
and parent loss through death. Chapters also discuss discrimination and prejudice within the
adverse experiences of African American Asian American European American Latino Native
American Arab American and Sikh as well as LGBTQ youth and non-binary children. Additionally
the handbook elevates dynamic aspects of resilience adjustment and the daily triumphs of
children and youth faced with issues related to prejudice and differential treatment.Topics
featured in the Handbook include:The intergenerational transmission of protective parent
responses to historical trauma.The emotional impact of the acting-white accusation.DREAMers and
their experience growing up undocumented in the USA.Online racial discrimination and its
relation to mental health and academic outcomes.Teaching strategies for preventing bigoted
behavior in class.Emerging areas such as sociopolitical issues gender prejudice and dating
violence. The Handbook of Children and Prejudice is a must-have resource for researchers
graduate students clinicians therapists and other professionals in clinical child and school
psychology social work public health developmental psychology pediatrics family studies
juvenile justice child and adolescent psychiatry and educational psychology.
