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Developmental psychopathology: Concepts and challenges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2000

MICHAEL RUTTER  and
L. ALAN SROUFE
MICHAEL RUTTER
Affiliation:
University of London
L. ALAN SROUFE
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
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Abstract

The defining features of developmental psychopathology concepts include attention to the understanding of causal processes, appreciation of the role of developmental mechanisms, and consideration of continuities and discontinuities between normality and psychopathology. Accomplishments with respect to these issues are reviewed in relation to attachment disorders, antisocial behavior, autism, depressive disorder, schizophrenia, and intellectual development. Major research challenges remain in relation to measurement issues, comorbidity, gender differences, cognitive processing, nature–nurture interplay, heterotypic continuity, continuities between normal variations and disorders, developmental programming, and therapeutic mechanisms in effective treatments.

Type
Research Article
Information
Development and Psychopathology , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , September 2000 , pp. 265 - 296
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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