This Special Issue of Development and Psychopathology is devoted to a multilevel developmental understanding of internalizing psychopathology. In an earlier Special Issue (Burnette & Cicchetti, 2012), contributors focused upon a multilevel developmental perspective of externalizing pathology. Internalizing and externalizing expressions of dysfunction comprise one of the most widely agreed upon ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention-deficit hyperactivity (ADHD) are frequently occurring conditions that often associated (ASD + ADHD). However, there few comparative studies concerning the clinical presentation in patients formally diagnosed with both ASD ADHD. Here, we aimed to 1) compare social impairment externalizing/internalizing behavioural problems across four groups of childr...

AIMS To examine the prospective relationships between childhood externalizing and internalizing disorders and substance use in early adolescence. DESIGN Longitudinal, community-based study of twins (aged 11 at intake; aged 14 at follow-up). SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS The sample was composed of twins participating in the Minnesota Twin Family Study, an epidemiological sample of twins and their...

We examined the relationship between psychopathology and interpersonal problems in a sample of 825 clinical and community participants. Sixteen psychiatric diagnoses and five transdiagnostic dimensions were examined in relation to self-reported interpersonal problems. The structural summary method was used with the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems Circumplex Scales to examine interpersonal p...

This study examined the influence of peers in meeting DSM-IV symptom criteria for an internalizing disorder in adolescents exposed to Hurricane Georges. Participants included a representative community sample of 905 youth (n = 476 boys) ages 11-17, residing in Puerto Rico. Data were gathered on hurricane exposure, symptoms of internalizing disorders, peer social support, peer violence, and peer...

Originally formulated to understand the recurrence of depressive disorders, the stress generation hypothesis has recently been applied in research on anxiety and externalizing disorders. Results from these investigations, in combination with findings of extensive comorbidity between depression and other mental disorders, suggest the need for an expansion of stress generation models to include t...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and helpfulness of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Children (MBCT-C) for the treatment of internalizing and externalizing symptoms in a sample of nonreferred children. Twenty-five children, ages 9 to 12, participated in the 12-week intervention. Assessments were conducted at baseline and posttreatment. Open trial ...

BACKGROUND In general, parental substance abuse is associated with children's emotional and behavioral problems. This study only investigated the internalizing problems (depression, anxiety and physical complains) in children of opioid or heroin-dependent parents in comparison with non-opioid dependent parents in order to determine the effects of drug dependency after excluding the confounding ...

BACKGROUND Sexual minority adolescents appear to be at increased risk for internalizing disorders relative to their heterosexual peers, but there is a paucity of research explaining this elevated risk. Emotion regulation deficits are increasingly understood as important predictors of internalizing psychopathology among general samples of adolescents. The present study sought to examine whether ...