2008 Summit
2008 ISCE SUMMIT
Societal and Individual Transformation:
Building Cross-National Research Capacity in Human Development
Virginia Tech Center for European Studies and Architecture
Riva San Vitale, Switzerland
September 28-30, 2008

Preliminary Information
Guidance for Book Contributors
Book Proposal-Human Development Across the Lifespan: Antecedents, Processes, and Consequences of Change-July 15, 2008
Book Proposal-papers Presented at the Summit on the Lifespan, Transformation, and Change-September 2008
Author Consent to Publish
Permissions Guide for Authors
APA Manual Chapter 2 on Writing Style
Formatting and Content Style Guidelines
Reminders to Authors on Book Chapter Expectations
Previous Summit Information
Letter to Participants - June 12, 2008
Post Presentation Inquiry and Discourse
Mancini Notes about the Region - August 22, 2008
Contact and Hotel
Virginia Tech Center for European Studies and Architecture (CESA)
| Location: | Riva San Vitale, CH |
| Office phone: | (011) 41-91-6483651 |
| Office fax: | (011) 41-91-6483658 |
| E-mail: | daniela@vt.edu |
| Website: | http://www.oired.vt.edu/cesa |
Hotel Walter au Lac
| Location: | Piazza Rezzonico 7, CH-6900 Lugano |
| Phone: | +41- (0) 91-9227425 |
| Fax: | +41- (0) 91- 9234233 |
| E-mail: | hotel@walteraulac.ch |
| Website: | http://www.walteraulac.ch/cms |
Papers and Presentations
Susan Chuang
Understanding Ethnicity, Culture, and Family Well-Being: Reconceptualizing Constructs and Retooling Methodologies
Megan Dolbin-MacNab
Putting the Puzzle Together: A Conceptual Framework of Risk and Resilience for Granparents Raising Grandchildren
Additional readings:
Just Like Raising Your Own? Grandmothers' Perceptions of Parenting a Second Time Around
Julie Dunsmore
The Dynamic Cultural Context of Emotion Socialization
Additional readings:
Rosalind Edwards
Getting On and Getting By: The Dynamics of Families, Social, Capital and Social Change
Additional readings:
Researching Families and Communities: Social and Generational Change
April Few
Shaping African American Female Adolescent Sexuality and Influencing Positive Sexual Health Developmental Outcomes: Influences of Family, Peer and Cultural Systems
Robbie Gilligan
Positive 'Turning Points': Reflections on a Key Concept in Trajectories in the Worlds of Children and Policy
Janet Holland
Change and Continuity in Young People's Lives: Biography in Context
Angela Huebner
Resources for Adjustment in Individuals and Families: The Role of Attachments Systems
Additional readings:
Adjustments among Adolescents in Military Families When a Parent is Deployed
Parental Deployment and Youth in Military Families: Exploring Uncertainty and Ambiguous Loss
Kee Jeong Kim
Risk and Protective Factors for Drug Use among American Youth
Leon Kuczynski
Social Relational Theory: Conceptual Tools for Exploring Dynamics in Parent-Child Interactions and Relationships
Additional readings:
Bilateral Conceptual Frameworks for Understanding Dynamics in Parent-Child Relations
Susan Lollis
"I Heard the Gate 'Clang' Behind Me": Swift Transformations in Close Relationships
Additional readings:
Conceptualizing the Influence of the Past and the Future in Present Parent-Child Relationships
Jay Mancini
Toward a Theory of Social Organization and Change: The Case of Building Community Capacity
Additional readings:
Preventing Intimate Partner Violence: A Community Capacity Approach
Hugh Milroy
Military Service and Homelessness: Turning Things Around
Additional readings:
How Veteran's Aid can help the soldiers of misfortune
Bren Neale
Personal Lives and Times: The Temporal Turn in Social Enquiry
Thomas Ollendick
Development Gone Awry: The Developmental Psychopathology of Social Anxiety Disorder
Michèle Preyde
Psychosocial Impact of Illness: A Transformative Experience
Karen Roberto
Health and Illness in late Life: Placing Developmental Paradigms of Adaptation in Context
Virpi Timonen
Taking Theory Seriously: Advancing Theory on Ageing in the Social Context through Analysis of Care-Giving in Older Age

