Current directions in child psychopathology /
Ed. by Kenneth A. Dodge.
- Boston : Allyn & Bacon, 2010.
- vii, 188 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Readings from the Association for Psychological Science .
- Readings from the Association for Psychological Science. .
"Pearson" - Spine.
Includes bibliographical references.
Environmental factors that lead to child psychopathology ; Children's exposure to violence in the family and community ; Children's emotional security in the interparental relationship ; Beyond quality : parental and residential stability and children's adjustment ; Siblings' direct and indirect contributions to child development ; How environments "get under the skin" to lead to psychopathology ; Maternal care and individual differences in defensive responses ; Corticotropin-releasing factor and the psychobiology of early-life stress ; Drug addiction during pregnancy : advances in maternal treatment and understanding child outcomes ; The role of prenatal maternal stress in child development ; Biological sensitivity to context ; Models of gene-environment interaction processes ; The interplay between genotypes and family relationships : reframing concepts of development and prevention ; Plasticity for affective neurocircuitry : how the environment affects gene expression ; For better and for worse : differential susceptibility to environmental influences ; From genes to brain to antisocial behavior ; Externalizing behavior disorders ; Identification of genes influencing a spectrum of externalizing psychopathology ; The role of neurobiological deficits in childhood antisocial behavior ; Violent children in developmental perspective : risk and protective factors and the mechanisms through which they (may) operate ; Risk taking in adolescence : new perspectives from brain and behavioral science ; School dropouts : prevention considerations, interventions, and challenges ; Neurodevelopmental disorders ; Evaluating the theory-of-mind hypothesis of autism ; Three reasons not to believe in an autism epidemic ; Neural mechanisms in dyslexia ; Learning abilities and disabilities : generalist genes, specialist environments.