We examined the role of disruptions in emotion regulation processes as a developmental mechanism linking child maltreatment to the onset of multiple forms
of psychopathology in adolescents.
Few studies have been designed to assess the pathways by which risk factors are associated with
symptoms of psychopathology across multiple domains, including contextual factors, parental depression, parenting, and child characteristics.
A large sample (n = 374) of Iranian students completed the PDS - R and other symptom
measures of psychopathology including obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD).
The fact that less optimal child outcomes were related to different
types of psychopathology symptoms in fathers and mothers might reflect children's internalized gender role standards about appropriate behaviors of males and females.
Our aim was to assess whether the
levels of psychopathology of mothers and fathers acts as a moderator of the relationship between temperament and ODD symptoms in preschoolers, both cross-sectionally at ages 3, 4 and 5, and longitudinally between ages 3 and 5.
A psychologist, adult psychotherapist, trained family therapist and researcher, he is Emeritus Professor
of Psychopathology of Chronic Traumatization at the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, and, until January 1, 2013, a psychologist / psychotherapist at the Sinai Center for Mental Health, Amstelveen.
Viviana Wuthrish is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Macquarie University's Centre for Emotional Health whose research interests lie broadly in the understanding and
treatment of psychopathology in children, adolescents and adults.
His articles demonstrated the very low levels
of psychopathology among the clergy looking at the data on psychiatric hospitalisations.
Other studies [31]--[34], in which there were no demographic differences (age, marital status and socioeconomic level) between depressed and nondepressed parents, have confirmed an increased
risk of psychopathology in the children of depressed parents.
Indeed, according to the vulnerability model, specific temperament traits may predispose towards the
onset of psychopathology in specific contexts [20].
However, our findings are consistent with the notion of a general emotion dysregulation factor (Silk et al. 2003; Steinberg and Avenevoli 2000), and are in line with findings that most forms
of psychopathology include dysregulation in more than one discrete emotion.
The BSI (53 items) is the short form of the Symptom Checklist -90-Revised (SCL -90-R) which screens for a broad range of psychological problems and symptoms
of psychopathology with individuals 13 years of age and older.
The Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology brings together the latest innovative research that advances
knowledge of psychopathology from infancy through adolescence.
There is now ample evidence from the preclinical and clinical fields that early life trauma has both dramatic and long - lasting effects on neurobiological systems and functions that are involved in different forms
of psychopathology as well as on health in general.
Migrants Examined for
Determinants of psychopathology through INternet Assessment (MEDINA) study: a cross-sectional study among visitors of an Internet community
Fewer mothers who took the BBH program showed symptoms of postpartum depression, the baby blues, and other
indicators of psychopathology such as anxiety.
Data were drawn from the Children in the Community Study, a longitudinal epidemiological study
of psychopathology across the life - course in 717 individuals in the community.
Focuses on the epidemiology, etiology, assessment, treatment, prognosis, and developmental
course of psychopathology from infancy through adolescence.
We propose that one central
aspect of psychopathology common to pathological gambling and bipolar disorder may be faulty processing of reinforcement information in situations where affected individuals choose between actions associated with motivationally significant outcomes.
However, the association between measures of emotional and behavioral problems in childhood and later psychopathology, while statistically significant, shows variation over time with evidence for a considerable portion of children exhibiting emotional or behavioral difficulties in early life, but without
evidence of psychopathology at later ages [8, 9].
As of July 1, 2016, Clinical Psychological Science places a particular priority on manuscripts that are interdisciplinary and bring the best available basic science from within psychology (e.g., social psychology, cross-cultural psychology, personality psychology, cognitive psychology, affective psychology, comparative psychology, neuroscience) and outside of psychology (e.g., sociology, anthropology, genetics, microbiology) to bear on our
understanding of psychopathology.
Limitations included small sample sizes, greater level
of psychopathology at intake on some variables, and female - only samples.
Future research might disentangle the interplay among goals - beliefs - ER strategies, as well as the consequences in
terms of psychopathology.
This approach formulates the occurrence or
maintenance of psychopathology in terms of a dysfunctional cognitive - interpersonal cycle (Gonca & Savasir, 2001).
Also, mindful parenting has been described in the context of
prevention of psychopathology in early childhood by the enhancement of mentalizing (Fonagy 1998).
Findings indicate that co-occurring psychiatric symptoms and their associated mental health risk / protective factors may have important clinical implications and generally support a biopsychosocial
model of psychopathology in children with an ASD that appears to share many similarities with models for nonASD children.
reflects the impact of dehumanizing social forces and reductionistic (and mechanistic) views of man which are among the
causes of psychopathology.
The pathological approach has, besides its assets, also a serious liability, and that is an exaggerated emphasis on the morbid manifestations and on the lower aspects of human nature and the consequent unwarranted generalized applications of the many
findings of psychopathology to the psychology of normal human beings.
The therapist's or client's acceptance of a traditional
view of psychopathology can limit growth by causing them to ignore the essential resources for growth in the Self — will, imagination, creativity.
The experience of extreme or prolonged stress does not necessarily result in mental health problems, which is an increasingly overlooked point and one of real significance to the
field of psychopathology.
This interest has taken diverse forms, ranging from the examination of sex differences in the prevalence of adjustment difficulties to the exploration of unique etiologies and trajectories in the development
of psychopathology for boys versus girls.
The point is of course distortion resulting from common world views in vulnerable fields — with climate science it takes on
more of a psychopathology of groupthink.