Citation

Wainryb C, Bourne S. Adv. Child Dev. Behav. 2016; 51: 257-287.

Affiliation

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/bs.acdb.2016.05.003

PMID

27474429

Abstract

War creates a multifaceted web of inequities that encompass most levels of the ecology of youth development. These include psychosocial inequities bearing on war-exposed youth's limited access to medical and educational services and job-training and employment opportunities, as well as some of the unique psychological sequelae of trauma exposure. In this chapter we put forth a twofold argument. First, we argue that the protracted hardships of war also create enduring psychological inequities that go beyond the well-documented psychosocial needs and psychological trauma, and encompass other aspects of youths' healthy development; these are inequities inasmuch as they represent profound alterations of the developmental pathways available to war-affected youth. Second, we maintain that the psychological sciences must strive to understand such longstanding developmental inequities even if we do not, at this time, have the tools to fully address them.

© 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Language: en