Harsh, inconsistent, or neglectful child - rearing practices are common in families of children and adolescents with oppositional defiant disorder, and these parenting practices play an important role in many causal theories of the disorder. (bpdfamily.com)
Back in the early 1980s he and David Kenny anticipated many of today's discussions about the benefits and challenges to developing and testing causal theories via mediation analyses. (spsp.org)
We focus on two recent approaches that have great potential for integrating past subtyping approaches and for advancing causal theory. (link.springer.com)