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In the last 15 years, the field of developmental psychopathology has made enormous strides in uncovering the mechanisms and processes underlying the emergence of mental illness and dysfunction. Interdisciplinary in nature, the field has engaged the efforts of scientists with orientations ranging from developmental psychology to psychobiology. In Frontiers of Developmental Psychopathology, the editors have brought together some of the field's most respected researchers--including Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Barbara A. Cornblatt, Richard A. Depue, and Marian Sigman--to discuss the latest research and to offer a perspective on where the field should be heading in the future. Focusing on topics as varied as schizophrenia, autism, depression, eating disorders, antisocial behavior, and personality disorders, each contributor offers a unique perspective on a particular subject, presents theoretical guidelines that can be applied to a range of research endeavors, and suggests specific courses for research in the future. Frontiers of Developmental Psychopathology is a unique resource that represents a range of opinion one of the hottest topics in psychology today. It will be invaluable to researchers and students of psychopathology, clinical psychology, developmental psychology, and psychiatry alike.
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Frontiers of Developmental Psychopathology This page intentionally left blank Frontiers of Developmental Psychopathology Edited by Mark F. Lenzenweger Jeffrey J. Haugaard New York Oxford OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1996 Oxford University Press Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bombay Calcutta Cape Town Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madras Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi Paris Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto and associated companies in Berlin Ibadan Copyright © 1996 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Frontiers of developmental psychopathology / edited by Mark F. Lenzenweger, Jeffrey J. Haugaard. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-19-509001-2 1. Mental illness—Etiology. 2. Developmental psychology. I. Lenzenweger, Mark F. II. Haugaard, Jeffrey J., 1951[DNLM: 1. Mental Disorders. 2. Models, Psychological. WM 100 F9345 1955] RC454.4.F76 1995 6I6.89'071—dc20 DNLM/DLC for Library of Congress 94-23362 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Preface Developmental psychopathology is "coming of age" as a scientific approach and the collective efforts of those working within the developmental psychopathology framework have begun to shed light on a variety of psychopathologies. Whereas 20 years ago Thomas Achenbach noted in his 1974 text Developmental Psychopathology that his was a "book about a field that hardly yet exists," one can now surely observe a thriving subdiscipline of scientific psychopathology research. For example, the approach now has its own specialty journal—Development and Psychopathology—two handbooks that review the extant literature (e.g., Cicchetti & Cohen, 1995a, 1995b; Lewis & Miller, 1990), and, indeed, Achenbach's Developmental Psychopathology (2nd ed.) is viewed by many as the standard text for an approach that is now firmly rooted and growing. As developmental psychopathology enters its "early adulthood," so to speak, it seemed to us an ideal time to critica