Jacob A. Burack is a Professor of School Psychology and Human Development in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology at McGill University, Montréal and a researcher at Hôpital Rivières-des-Prairies in Montréal, Canada. He is also the founder and director of the McGill Youth Study Team. Along with his colleagues and students, he studies and works with a variety of populations, including First Nations adolescents, persons with autism spectrum disorders, and persons with Down syndrome. Louis A. Schmidt is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Child Emotion Laboratory at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. He is also a core member of the Offord Center for Child Studies at McMaster Children's Hospital and a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. Schmidt's research interests include the origins and development of individual differences in temperament and the impact of early life events on the human brain.

• Series editor's preface; 1. Introductory remarks: cultural and contextual perspectives on developmental risk and well-being Jacob A. Burack and Louis A. Schmidt; Part I. Cultural Perspectives on Developmental Risk and Well-Being: 2. Using multicultural research to expand the scope of developmental psychopathology Thomas M. Achenbach; 3. Cultural perspectives on shyness-inhibition Xinyin Chen, Siman Zhao and Fan Yang; 4. A sociocultural analysis of high-risk Native American children in schools Stephanie A. Fryberg and Peter A. Leavitt; 5. Developmental perspectives on the role of cultural identity in well-being: evidence from aboriginal communities in Canada Jacob A. Burack, Amy Bombay, Heidi Flores, Jillian Stewart and Vladimir Ponizovsky; Part II. Contextual Perspectives on Developmental Risk and Well-Being: 6. Peer victimization: understanding the developmental correlates of at-risk children and youth Jennifer M. Knack, Tracy Vaillancourt, Amanda Krygsman, Steven Arnocky, Irene Vitoroulis, Jennifer Hepditch and Christine Blain-Arcaro; 7. The potential risks and adaptive contributions of elite social status to youth development Wendy Troop-Gordon; 8. Culture and context modify neural correlates of adolescent risk-taking behavior Christine L. Lackner and Sidney J. Segalowitz; Part III. Contextual Perspectives on Atypicality: 9. Prematurity as a context of development at risk Lauren Drvaric, Jordana Waxman, Ryan J. Van Lieshout and Louis A. Schmidt; 10. Maternal depression and children's behavioral and emotional outcomes: a review of contextual and individual level moderators and mediators Matilda Nowakowski, Louis A. Schmidt and Tracy Vaillancourt; 11. Fragile X-associated disorders: how the family environment and genotype interact Marsha Mailick, Jan S. Greenberg, Leann E. Smith, Audra Sterling, Nancy Brady, Steven F. Warren and Jinkuk Hong; 12. Developmental approaches to understanding and treating autism Tony Charman.