Despite broad interest in how children and youth cope with stress and how others can support their coping, this is the first Handbook to consolidate the many theories and large bodies of research that contribute to the study of the development of coping. The Handbook's goal is field building - it brings together theory and research from across the spectrum of psychological, developmental, and related sciences to inform our understanding of coping and its development across the lifespan. Hence, it is of interest not only to psychologists, but also to neuroscientists, sociologists, and public health experts. Moreover, work on stress and coping touches many areas of applied social science, including prevention and intervention science, education, clinical practice, and youth development, making this Handbook a vital interdisciplinary resource for parents, teachers, clinical practitioners, social workers, and anyone interested in improving the lives of children.

Table of Contents:
1. A systems perspective on the development of coping: 'we're going to need a bigger boat'; Part I. Theoretical Perspectives on the Development of Coping: 2. Towards a lifespan theory of coping development: a social ecological approach; 3. Attachment, regulation and the development of coping; 4. Social context, psychological needs and the development of coping; 5. Processes of stress resistance, stress resilience: role of behavioral control and the medial prefrontal corte; Part II. Methods for Studying the Development of Coping: 6. Capturing coping: innovative designs and considerations for studying the topography of adolescents' coping; 7. Resilience and coping in development: pathways to integration; Part III. Neurophysiological and Experiential Bases of the Development of Coping: 8. The development of neurobiology underlying stress and coping; 9. Biological systems underlying the development of adaptive functioning and coping; 10. Childhood adversity and the development of coping; 11. Adolescence, physiological adaptation, and the development of stress responses; Part IV. Psychological Foundations of the Development of Coping: 12. Attention, temperament, self-regulation and the development of coping; 13. The development of emotion regulation and coping in early childhood; 14. Towards a more inclusive, contextualized approach to studying executive functions and self-regulation in the context of coping; 15. The development of accommodative coping: conditions and consequences from a lifespan perspective; 16. The development of temperament and personality traits and coping in childhood and adolescence; Part V. Social Contexts and the Development of Coping: 17. Coping development as an everyday interpersonal process: broadening definitions and investigations of coping; 18. Parenting, emotion socialization, and the development of coping; 19. Temperament, family context and the development of coping; 20. Interparental conflict, parental relationship dissolution and the development of children's coping; 21. Autonomy, self-determination and the development of coping in adolescence; 22. Peer stressors and peer relationship dynamics in the development of coping; 23. Income, income inequality, community and the development of coping: the reformulated adaptation to poverty-related stress model; 24. Culture, diversity, context and the development of coping: a phenomenological perspective; Part VI. Application and the Development of Coping: 25. Social media use and misuse, stress and the development of coping; 26. Clinical treatments for child emotional disorders and the development of coping: the case of irritability; 27. Fostering the development of academic coping: a multi-level systems perspective; 28. Youth programs and the development of coping.