Income, Income Inequality, Community, and the Development of Coping

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23 - Income, Income Inequality, Community, and the Development of Coping

The Reformulated Adaptation to Poverty-Related Stress Model

from Part V - Social Contexts and the Development of Coping

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 June 2023

Martha E. Wadsworth ,

Jarl A. Ahlkvist ,

Allison Pequet and

Chelsea O. Mayo

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Ellen A. Skinner and

Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck

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Ellen A. Skinner: Affiliation:
Portland State University
Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck: Affiliation:
Griffith University, Queensland

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This chapter describes the development, refinement, and key guiding insights of the Reformulated Adaptation to Poverty-Related Stress (APRS) model. The APRS model elucidates how children (and adults) cope with and adapt to the plethora of stressful exposures and conditions that comprise poverty’s developmental context, and why coping in this stressful context often differs from coping found in less stressful developmental contexts. The chapter articulates implications of the APRS for research that takes context seriously and for interventions that meet children where they are; help them grow broad, flexible coping repertoires; develop the ability to differentiate among domains of stress that require different coping approaches; and learn to tailor one’s coping responses to the type of stressor being encountered. In this way, the APRS can guide researchers and interventionists to dump the deficit model of poor people and embrace the possibilities opened by an appreciation for the remarkable adaptiveness of humans.

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poverty coping adaptation chronic stress social action collaborative coping

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