Abstract
The following is a review of the proceedings of the Eleventh Biennial West Virginia University Conference on Life Span Development, chaired by E.M. Cummings, A. Greene, and K. Karraker. The topic of the conference was stress and coping across the life span. Presentations represented a diverse blend of theory and research covering the entire life course. Key themes that emerged were the notion that stress and coping are contextually embedded processes, coping is a phenomenon that changes over time in response to changing life conditions, and individual differences in coping responses may be used as predictors of later adaptive and maladaptive behaviors. In general, the purpose of the conference was to facilitate the construction of an integrated framework for studying stress and coping processes across the life course.