Developmental Psychopathology in a Racial/Ethnic Minority Group: Are Cultural Risks Relevant?

Minority-group criminality and cultural integration.

Cultural Formulation Interview: The Role of Culture in Psychopathology

Culture as a set of beliefs, values, laws, and customs which influence all aspects of human life can have a significant role in shaping psychopathology and psychological disorders. The purpose of this study that conducted via the descriptive-analytic method is to investigate the role of culture in psychopathology and abnormal behaviorschr('39') incidence with the emphasis on cultural formulatio...

Taxometrics and developmental psychopathology.

Developmental psychopathologists have criticized categorical classification systems for their inability to account for within-group heterogeneity in biological, etiological. developmental, and cultural influences on behavior. Dichotomizing continuous scores of symptom severity is also inadvisable statistically. Perhaps because of a resulting wariness of categorizing, few explorations into the o...

A developmental psychopathology perspective on adolescence.

Developmental psychopathology offers an integrative framework for conceptualizing the course of development during adolescence, with particular relevance for understanding continuity and the emergence of psychopathology during this and subsequent developmental periods. In this article, the utility of a developmental psychopathology perspective for informing the design of research, prevention, a...

A Developmental Psychopathology Perspective on Child Maltreatment

Since first emerging as an integrative field of study in the 1980s, the discipline of developmental psychopathology has made significant contributions toward the understanding of risk, psychopathology, and resilience across the lifespan. Because both positive and negative adaptations unfold over time, the utilization of a developmental perspective is critical if the processes underlying individ...