Infant mental health researchers have identified another subgroup of children with
the onset of psychopathology (with or without environmental triggers), highlighting an early predisposition to partial or full psychiatric disorders such as disruptive behavior or anxiety disorders.
The early
onset of psychopathology implies a formidable cost for both the individual and society.
Indeed, according to the vulnerability model, specific temperament traits may predispose towards
the onset of psychopathology in specific contexts [20].
The finding that perceived family support has aetiological significance supports previous conceptual views that family process, rather than structure, influences
the onset of psychopathologies.
Emotions play an important role in
the onset of psychopathologies in childhood.
Not exact matches
This supports the theory that there is an association between severity
of trauma - related
psychopathology and the age at
onset, severity and intensity
of traumatisation.
Disorganized attachment patterns in infancy have been associated with childhood
onset of aggressive behavior problems and with
psychopathology in young adulthood.
A range
of childhood psychosocial risk factors have been associated with depression, including characteristics
of the child (eg, behavioral and socioemotional problems, poor school performance), characteristics
of the parents (eg, parent
psychopathology, rejecting or intrusive behavior), and family circumstances (eg, the loss
of a parent, physical or sexual violence, family discord).12 - 15 However, it has not been shown decisively whether these risks distinguish juvenile from adult -
onset MDD.
A developmental perspective on
psychopathology illustrates how the course and correlates
of disorder vary as a function
of age at
onset.
Rather fewer meet the diagnostic criteria for research, which for the oppositional defiant type
of conduct disorder seen in younger children require at least four specific behaviours to be present.7 The early
onset pattern — typically beginning at the age
of 2 or 3 years — is associated with comorbid
psychopathology such as hyperactivity and emotional problems, language disorders, neuropsychological deficits such as poor attention and lower IQ, high heritability, 8 and lifelong antisocial behaviour.9 In contrast, teenage
onset antisocial behaviour is not associated with other disorders or neuropsychological deficits, is more environmentally determined than inherited, and tends not to persist into adulthood.9
Deficient self - regulation plays a key role in the etiology
of early
onset disruptive behavior disorders and signals risk for chronic
psychopathology.
Given their typical age
of onset, a broad range
of mental disorders are increasingly being understood as the result
of aberrations
of developmental processes that normally occur in the adolescent brain.4 — 6 Executive functioning, and its neurobiological substrate, the prefrontal cortex, matures during adolescence.5 The relatively late maturation
of executive functioning is adaptive in most cases, underpinning characteristic adolescent behaviours such as social interaction, risk taking and sensation seeking which promote successful adult development and independence.6 However, in some cases it appears that the delayed maturation
of prefrontal regulatory regions leads to the development
of mental illness, with neurobiological studies indicating a broad deficit in executive functioning which precedes and underpins a range
of psychopathology.7 A recent meta - analysis
of neuroimaging studies focusing on a range
of psychotic and non-psychotic mental illnesses found that grey matter loss in the dorsal anterior cingulate, and left and right insula, was common across diagnoses.8 In a healthy sample, this study also demonstrated that lower grey matter in these regions was found to be associated with deficits in executive functioning performance.
Only one study has previously reported on relations between parental
psychopathology and stressful life events prior to the
onset of anxiety disorders in children.
[jounal] Silverthorn, P. / 2001 / Timing
of onset and correlates
of severe conduct problems in adjudicated girls and boys / Journal
of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment 23: 171 ~ 181
Thus, carrying out the research using CERQ - Ck and establishing adaptive CER strategies during the middle childhood period may have important protective effects and could reduce the risk
of adult
onset psychopathology.
This study prospectively examined several theory - based family and parent characteristics (e.g., family conflict, parental over-control, parental
psychopathology) as predictors
of anxiety disorder
onset in children whose parents were clinically anxious.
Deficits in emotion regulation prescribe the
onset of risk in two prominent developmental pathways leading to SUDs and comorbid
psychopathology, including the externalizing pathway [80, 81] and the internalizing pathway [82, 83 • •].
Family functioning has been implicated in the
onset of child and adult
psychopathology.