Risk and Protective Factors in the Development of Psychopathology

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
List of contributors......Page 9
Preface......Page 14
Part I - Introduction: Historical and theoretical roots of developmental psychopathology......Page 18
1 - A historical perspective on the discipline of developmental psychopathology......Page 19
2 - What is "developmental" about developmental psychopathology?......Page 46
Part II - Contributions of the high-risk child paradigm: continuities and changes in adaptation during development......Page 66
3 - Early contributors to developmental risk......Page 69
4 - Beyond diathesis: toward an understanding of high-risk environments......Page 84
5 - Hard growing: children who survive......Page 114
6 - Children born at medical risk: factors affecting vulnerability and resilience......Page 137
7 - A mediational model for boys' depressed mood......Page 158
8 - A temperamental disposition to the state of uncertainty......Page 181
Part III - Competence under adversity: individual and family differences in resilience......Page 196
9 - Psychosocial resilience and protective mechanisms......Page 198
10 - Maternal stress and children's development: prediction of school outcomes and identification of protective factors......Page 232
11 - Competence under stress: risk and protective factors......Page 253
12 - Stress-resistant families and stress-resistant children......Page 274
13 - Children's adjustment to parental divorce: self-image, social relations, and school performance......Page 298
Part IV - The challenge of adolescence for developmental psychopathology......Page 322
14 - The development of psychopathology in adolescence......Page 325
15 - Depressive symptoms in late adolescence: a longitudinal perspective on personality antecedents......Page 351
16 - Vulnerability and resilience in the age of eating disorders: risk and protective factors for bulimia nervosa......Page 378
17 - Protected or vulnerable: the challenges of AIDS to developmental psychopathology......Page 401
Part V - Factors in the development of schizophrenia and other severe psychopathology in late adolescence and adulthood......Page 422
18 - Family relations as risk factors for the onset and course of schizophrenia......Page 425
19 - Long-range schizophrenia forecasting: many a slip twixt cup and lip......Page 441
20 - Vulnerability factors in children at risk: anomalies in attentional functioning and social behavior......Page 462
21 - Schizophrenia: a new model of its transmission and its variations......Page 497
22 - Premorbid competence and the courses and outcomes of psychiatric disorders......Page 514
23 - Relationships between adult development and the course of mental disorder......Page 531
A closing note: Reflections on the future......Page 544
Author index......Page 552
Subject index......Page 568