Developmental Psychopathology, Theory and Method.
- 3rd ed.
- 1 online resource (1178 pages)
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to Developmental Psychopathology, Third Edition -- Contributors -- Chapter 1 Assessment of Psychopathology in Young Children -- Introduction -- Early Problems Matter -- Progress in Psychiatric Diagnosis in Young Children -- Important Considerations in Young Child Assessment -- Reliance on Caregivers for Information -- Sensitivity to Contextual Influences, Including Caregiving Contexts -- Domains of Development -- Selecting an Assessment Approach and Tool -- Types of Tools -- Understanding Psychometric Properties -- Reliability -- Validity -- Validity of Classification -- Normatization -- Cultural Validity and Cultural Norms -- Knowing What Problems Are Really Being Assessed -- Response Formats -- Summary -- Assessment Tools -- Screening Methods -- Screening Methods Characteristics of Screening Tools -- Selected Screening Tools -- Comprehensive Dimensional Tools for Assessing Social-Emotional/Behavioral Problems -- Selected Dimensional Checklists -- Variation in Emphasis of the Domains That Are Assessed -- Diagnostic Approaches -- Selected Diagnostic Interviews -- Psychometric Properties of Diagnostic Interviews -- Observational Assessment -- Assessing Impairment -- Conclusions and Directions for Future Research -- References -- Chapter 2 Developmental Issues in Assessment, Taxonomy, and Diagnosis of Psychopathology: Life Span and Multicultural Perspectives -- Life Span Perspectives -- Multicultural Perspectives -- Developmental Psychopathology -- The Developmental Component -- Developmental Theories -- Developmental Considerations in Assessment, Taxonomy, and Diagnosis -- Developmental Methodology -- The Psychopathology Component -- Nosologically Based Models -- Empirically Based Models -- A Framework for the Developmental Study of Psychopathology -- Developmental Differences. Sources of Data -- Epidemiological Aspects -- Multivariate Aspects -- Operational Definitions -- The Roles of Assessment and Taxonomy in the Developmental Study of Psychopathology -- Assessment -- Taxonomy -- Are Behavioral and Emotional Disorders Natural Kinds? -- Constructing Taxonomies of Behavioral, Emotional, and Social Problems -- Prototypes as Taxonomic Models -- Diagnosis -- Diagnostic Processes -- Formal Diagnoses -- Diagnostic Formulations -- Comorbidity Issues -- Longitudinal Designs for the Developmental Study of Psychopathology -- Accelerated Longitudinal Designs -- Path Designs -- Growth Curve Designs -- Growth Mixture Models -- Life Span Applications -- Standardized Assessment and Taxonomic Models in Multiple Longitudinal Studies -- Zuid Holland Longitudinal Study -- The TRacking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey (TRAILS) Study -- Generation R Longitudinal Study ("R" = Rotterdam) -- Netherlands Twin Registry (NTR) -- Multicultural Findings and Applications -- Multicultural Tests of Syndromes -- Multicultural Comparisons of Scale Scores -- Construction of Multicultural Norms -- Advancing Assessment, Taxonomy, and Diagnosis -- Challenges to Be Met -- Quantitative Aids to Meeting the Challenges -- Advantages of Quantification for Research -- Advantages of Quantification for Conceptualizing Psychopathology -- Advantages of Quantification for Mental Health Services -- Efforts to Quantify Diagnostic Taxa -- Rating Scales for DSM Categories -- DSM-Oriented Scales -- Bridging Gaps Between Nosologically and Empirically Based Constructs -- Directions for Continued Research -- Family-Oriented Assessment and Interventions -- Multicultural Directions -- Quantification of Diagnostic Taxa -- Use of Norms to Evaluate Interventions -- Use of Multisource Data -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 3 Developmental Epidemiology -- What Is Epidemiology?. Scientific Epidemiology -- Public Health Epidemiology -- Characteristics of Research in Psychiatric Epidemiology -- Measuring the Frequency of Disease -- Defining a Case -- Taxonomy, Instrumentation, and Mechanisms -- Using Question-and-Answer Methods to Identify Cases -- Classifying Cases in the Clinic and the Community -- Developmental Issues in Case Identification -- Ascertainment Bias in Case Identification -- Controlling Bias in Estimating the Influence of Risk Factors -- Summary -- What Is Developmental Epidemiology? -- The Concept of Development -- Implications of a Developmental Approach to Child Psychiatric Epidemiology -- From Child Psychiatric Epidemiology to Developmental Epidemiology: A Brief History -- The Origins of Child Psychiatric Epidemiology -- Distinguishing Psychiatric Disorder from Severe Mental Retardation -- Distinguishing Among Psychiatric Disorders -- Psychoanalytic Theory and Developmental Psychopathology -- Distinguishing Normal from Abnormal -- Measuring Child and Adolescent Psychopathology -- Summary -- Epidemiology as a Developmental Method -- Risk, Exposure, and the Meaning of Time -- Examples from Developmental Psychopathology -- Future Directions: Developmental Epidemiology -- Longitudinal Research -- Impact Studies -- Mechanisms: Genetic Epidemiology -- Summary: Translational Epidemiology -- References -- Chapter 4 Using Natural Experiments to Test Environmental Mediation Hypotheses -- Introduction -- What Is Meant by a Cause? -- Noncausal Alternative Explanations for an Association -- Natural Experiments -- Genetically Sensitive Designs -- Strategies to Identify the Key Environmental Risk Feature -- Designs for Dealing with Selection Bias -- Instrumental Variables -- Regression Discontinuity Designs to Deal with Unmeasured Confounders. Adoption and Fostering as a Means of Separating Prenatal from Postnatal Effects -- Are Natural Experiments Really Needed? -- Overview of Natural Experiment Methodology -- References -- Chapter 5 Developmental Models and Mechanisms for Understanding the Effects of Early Experiences on Psychological Development -- Introduction -- Alternative Developmental Models and Hypotheses in Psychological Research on Early Experience -- Sensitive Period Models -- Developmental Programming -- Life Span Development or Cumulative Effects Models -- Alternative Models -- Summary -- Developmental Mechanisms -- Stress Physiology -- Neuroimmunology -- Neural Development and Neural Circuitry -- Genetics -- Psychological Mechanisms -- Additional Mechanisms -- Summary -- Conceptual and Methodological Considerations for Investigating Developmental Models and Mechanisms -- Limited Experimental Leverage to Assess Timing, Duration, and Intensity of Exposures -- Phenotypic and Measurement Stability -- Individual Differences -- Sex Differences -- Translation of Animal Findings to Human Health and Development -- Summary -- Model Systems and Paradigms for Studying Developmental Models and Mechanisms -- Prenatal Stress/Anxiety and Child Development -- Maternal Immune Activation Paradigm -- Early and Severe Caregiving Neglect and Deprivation -- Summary -- Developmental Models Are Shaping Clinical and Public Health Strategies -- Early Interventions Can Have Lasting Effects -- Developmental Hypotheses and Early Intervention -- Clinical and Public Health Application -- Summary -- Conclusions and Future Directions -- References -- Chapter 6 Emotional Security Theory and Developmental Psychopathology -- The Substance of Emotional Security in Historical Perspective -- The Goal-Corrected System of Emotional Security in EST. Conceptual Pitfalls and Barriers in the EST Conceptualization of Emotional Security -- Advances in the Characterization of the Emotional Security System in EST-R -- Emotional Security as a Mediator of Children's Adjustment to Interparental Conflict -- Research on the Mediational Role of Emotional Security -- Interparental Sources of Children's Emotional Insecurity -- The Potency of Signs of Emotional Insecurity in the Mediational Pathways -- The Multitude of Sequelae of Children's Insecurity -- Developmental Cascade Mechanisms -- Contextual Characteristics -- Family Processes -- Child Characteristics -- Ecological Characteristics -- Developmental Parameters -- Transactions of Insecurity -- Experiential Histories -- Sensitive Periods -- Developmental Pathways and Trajectories -- Future Directions -- Person-Based Taxonomy -- Expanding Emotional Security Beyond the Interparental Dyad -- Protection and Resilience in the Face of Insecurity -- Prevention, Intervention, and Public Policy -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 7 Emotion and the Development of Psychopathology -- Introduction -- The Nature of Emotion -- Emotion and Psychopathology -- Emotional Competence -- Development of Emotional Competence -- The Prenatal Period: Typical Development -- The Development of the Components of Emotional Competence -- Emotion Understanding -- Typical Development of Emotion Regulation -- Conclusion and Future Directions -- Personal Relevance -- Dynamics -- Context -- Translational Implications -- References -- Chapter 8 Attachment and Developmental Psychopathology -- Overview -- Historical Overview of Attachment Theory -- Individual Differences in Attachment -- Internal Working Models of Attachment -- Measurement of Individual Differences in Attachment -- Childhood Attachment Assessments -- Adult Attachment Assessments. The Determinants of Individual Differences in Attachment.