Child psychiatry: the interface between clinical and developmental research
Psychological MedicinePublished 1 February 1986
Michael Rutter
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Developmental psychopathology constitutes a research strategy that is concerned with questions about continuities and discontinuities over time and over the span of behavioural variation.
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Developmental psychopathology constitutes a research strategy that is concerned with questions about continuities and discontinuities over time (the developmental perspective) and over the span of behavioural variation (the psychopathological perspective). The utility of this approach is discussed in relation to childhood depression, autism and schizophrenia, and the effects of adverse life experiences.
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