Introduction to the Handbook; Natasha J. Cabrera and Birgit Leyendecker -- Section I. Conceptual and Methodological Approaches -- Introduction: Conceptual and Methodological Approaches; Frosso Motti-Stefanidi, Section Editor -- 1. Positive Youth Development among Minority Youth: A Relational Developmental Systems Model; Richard M. Lerner, Jun Wang, Rachel M. Hershberg, Mary H. Buckingham, Elise M. Harris, Jonathan Tirrell, Edmond P. Bowers and Jacqueline V. Lerner -- 2. A Resilience Perspective on Immigrant Youth Adaptation and Development; Frosso Motti-Stefanidi and Ann Masten. - 3. Measuring Positive Development I: Multilevel Analysis; Jens B. Asendorpf -- 4. Equivalence in Research on Positive Development of Minority Children: Methodological Approaches; Fons J. R. van de Vijver and Jia He -- Section II. Individual Level Influences -- Introduction: The Puzzle of Coaction and The Imbroglio of Paradox; Robert H. Bradley, Section Editor -- 5. Parental Sensitivity and Attachment in Ethnic Minority Families; Maike Malda and Judi Mesman -- 6. Conceptualizing Variability in U.S. Latino Children’s Dual-Language Development; Kelly Escobar and Catherine S. TamisLeMonda -- 7. An International Perspective on Parenting and Children's Adjustment; Jennifer E. Lansford -- 8. Cultural Identity Development as a Developmental Resource; Paul Vedder and Mitch van Geel -- 9. Differential Susceptibility in Minority Children: Individual Differences in Environmental Sensitivity; Elham Assary and Michael Pluess -- Section III. Family/Parenting Level Influences -- Introduction: Parenting and Language in Ethnic Minority and Immigrant Families in North America and the European Union: Toward an Emphasis on Positive Development; Marc H. Bornstein, Section Editor -- 10. Parenting and families in the United States and Canada; Catherine Costigan, Joelle Taknint, and Sheena Miao -- 11. Family Resources for Promoting Positive Development among Minority Children: European Perspectives; Sabine Walper and Birgit Leyendecker -- 12. Minority Fathers and Children’s Positive Development in the United States; Natasha Cabrera, Elizabeth Karberg, and Catherine Kuhns -- 13. Language and Parenting: Minority Languages in North America; Allyssa McCabe -- 14. Minority Language Parenting in Europe and Children's Well-Being; Annick De Houwer -- Section IV. Peers and Friendship Level Influences -- Introduction: The Contribution of Friendship and Peers to Immigrant Youth’ Positive Development; Christiane Spiel, Section Editor -- 15. Interethnic Friendship Formation; Peter F. Titzmann -- 16. The Friendships of Racial-Ethnic Minority Youth In Context; Leoandra Onnie Rogers, Erika Y. Niwa, and Niobe Way -- 17. Minority and Majority Children’s Evaluations of Social Exclusion in Intergroup Contexts; Aline Hitti, Kelly Lynn Mulvey, and Melanie Killen -- 18. Children’s Healthy Social-Emotional Development in Contexts of Peer Exclusion; Tina Malti, Antonio Zuffianò, Lixian Cui, Tyler Colasante, Joanna Peplak, and Na Young Bae -- 19. Positive Development of Minority Children; Radosveta Dimitrova and Laura Ferrer-Wreder -- Section V. Early Childhood Education and Schools -- Introduction: The Positive Development of Minority Children At Home and In School; Allan Wigfield -- 20. Promoting Positive Self-Esteem in Ethnic Minority Students: The Role of School and Classroom Context; Jochem Thijs and Maykel Verkuyten -- 21. Parental Educational Involvement and Latino Children’s Academic Attainment ; Rosario Ceballo, Rosanne M. Jocson and Francheska Alers-Rojas -- 22. Using Self-Regulated Learning as a Framework for Creating Inclusive Classrooms for Ethnically and Linguistically Diverse Learners in Canada; Nancy Perry, NikkiYee, Silvia Mazabel-Ortega, Simon Lisaingo and Elina Määttää -- Section VI. Policies/Prevention/Programs -- Introduction: Positive Development of Minority Children and Youth: Translating Theory to Action; Nancy Gonzalez, Section Editor -- 23. Documentation Status and Child Development in the U.S. and Europe; Natalia Rojas and Hirokazu Yoshikawa -- 24. Research on Positive Youth Development in Boys of Color: Implications for Intervention and Policy; Noni Gaylord-Harden, Cynthia Pierre, Latrice Clak, Pat Tolan, and Oscar Barbarin -- 25. Civic Engagement as an Adaptive Coping Response to Conditions of Inequality: An Application of Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory (PVEST); Elan C. Hope and Margaret Beale Spencer -- 26. Developing an Ethnic-Racial Identity Intervention from a Developmental Perspective: Process, Content, and Implementation of the Identity Project; Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor and Sara Douglass -- 27. Children’s Centres: an English Intervention for Families Living in Disadvantaged Communities; Maria Evangelou, Jenny Goff, Kathy Sylva, Pam Sammons, Teresa Smith, James Hall and Naomi Eisenstadt -- 28. Instructional Practice with Young Bilingual Learners: A Canadian Profile; Roma Chumak-Horbatsch.