The aim of this project was to assess the current evidence from longitudinal studies for
childhood determinants of adult mental illness. Because of the variable and often prolonged …

Background Child and adolescent mental health problems are common, associated with
wide‐ranging functional impairments, and show substantial continuities into adult life. It is …

The objective of this study is to compare the time trend of reported diagnoses of autism
spectrum disorder (ASD), hyperkinetic disorder, Tourette's syndrome, and obsessive …

Objective This prospective longitudinal study of a representative community sample of
children and adolescents (N= 269) examined the long-term course and predictive power of …

Background: Most psychosocial risk factors appear to have general rather than specific
patterns of association with common childhood and adolescence disorders. However …

Background Most mental disorders start in childhood and adolescence. Risk factors are
prenatal and perinatal, genetic as well as environmental and family related. Research …

OBJECTIVE: To examine the extent to which certain risk factors in 5-to 6-year-old children
predict later psychopathology in a population-based sample of children from the province of …

OBJECTIVE:: To study associations between comorbid psychopathology and long-term
outcomes in a large birth cohort sample from age 8 to early adulthood. METHOD:: The …

Many adult mental disorders have their origins in childhood yet our knowledge about this
largely comes from studies assessing adults utilising retrospective recall of age of onset. In …

Abstract Costello et al.(2003) reported the cumulative prevalence of child and adolescent
psychiatric disorder in a sample of 1,420 children who were first assessed when they were 9 …