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Continuities and Discontinuities in Psychopathology between Childhood and Adult Life
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Rutter, Michael; Kim-Cohen, Julia; Maughan, Barbara – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2006
The possible mechanisms involved in continuities and discontinuities in psychopathology between childhood and adult life are considered in relation to the findings from systematic, prospective, long-term longitudinal studies. Findings on schizophrenia, neurodevelopmental disorders, emotional disturbances, antisocial behaviour and substance abuse…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Schizophrenia, Emotional Disturbances, Psychopathology
Urban Educators' Perceptions of Interventions for Students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Preliminary Investigation
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Graczyk, Patricia A.; Atkins, Marc S.; Jackson, Maudette M.; Letendre, Joan A.; Kim-Cohen, Julia; Baumann, Barbara L.; McCoy, Jon – Behavioral Disorders, 2005
This study examined urban educators' attitudes toward commonly recommended interventions for students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Participants included 358 pupil personnel services (PPS) professionals--school psychologists, social workers, and counselors--and 70 classroom teachers from urban elementary schools. On…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, School Psychologists, Social Work, Pupil Personnel Services
Research Review: DSM-V Conduct Disorder--Research Needs for an Evidence Base
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Moffitt, Terrie E.; Arseneault, Louise; Jaffee, Sara R.; Kim-Cohen, Julia; Koenen, Karestan C.; Odgers, Candice L.; Slutske, Wendy S.; Viding, Essi – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2008
This article charts a strategic research course toward an empirical foundation for the diagnosis of conduct disorder in the forthcoming DSM-V. Since the DSM-IV appeared in 1994, an impressive amount of new information about conduct disorder has emerged. As a result of this new knowledge, reasonable rationales have been put forward for adding to…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Research Needs, Disability Identification, Evidence
Maternal Expressed Emotion Predicts Children's Antisocial Behavior Problems: Using Monozygotic-Twin Differences to Identify Environmental Effects on Behavioral Development
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Caspi, Avshalom; Moffitt, Terrie E.; Morgan, Julia; Rutter,Michael; Taylor,Alan; Arseneault, Louise; Tully, Lucy; Jacobs, Catherine; Kim-Cohen, Julia – Developmental Psychology, 2004
If maternal expressed emotion is an environmental risk factor for children's antisocial behavior problems, it should account for behavioral differences between siblings growing up in the same family even after genetic influences on children's behavior problems are taken into account. This hypothesis was tested in the Environmental Risk…
Descriptors: Twins, Risk, Mothers, Antisocial Behavior
Genetic and Environmental Processes in Young Children's Resilience and Vulnerability to Socioeconomic Deprivation
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Kim-Cohen, Julia; Moffitt, Terrie E.; Caspi, Avshalom; Taylor, Alan – Child Development, 2004
Some children exposed to socioeconomic (SES) deprivation are resilient and function better than expected, given the level of deprivation they have experienced. The present study tested genetic and environmental contributions to young children's resilience and vulnerability to SES deprivation. Children's resilience was assessed by the difference…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Environment, Young Children, Twins, Genetics
Psychometric Evaluation of 5- and 7-Year-Old Children's Self-Reports of Conduct Problems
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Arseneault, Louise; Kim-Cohen, Julia; Taylor, Alan; Caspi, Avshalom; Moffitt, Terrie E. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2005
Past research suggests that young children are incapable of reporting information about their own behavior problems. To test this, we examined the validity and the usefulness of children's self-reports in the E-Risk Study, a nationally representative birth cohort of 2,232 children. We used the Berkeley Puppet Interview to obtain children's…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Psychometrics, Young Children, Behavior Problems