This paper responds to the need to understand mechanisms in the pathways of risk from
depression in mothers to their children's functioning. We systematically reviewed evidence …

Mental health problems in children and adolescents include several types of emotional and
behavioural disorders, including disruptive, depression, anxiety and pervasive …

This chapter was prepared when all authors were at Columbia University's Teachers
College; Luthar and Small are currently at Arizona State University. The authors gratefully …

This compilation of five papers provides commentary from researchers devoted to the study
of a variety of components that contribute to the broader domain of social and emotional …

Background Temperament has been shown to be associated with behavior for millennia but
has not been explicitly used in a theory of crime. Methods This state-of-the-art review …

The emergence and persistence of conduct problems (CPs) during early childhood is a
robust predictor of behavior problems in school and of future maladaptation. In this study we …

Current frameworks for understanding the link between early adverse childhood
experiences and later negative life outcomes, including psychopathology, focus on the …

Research implicates callous-unemotional (CU) traits (ie, lack of empathy, prosociality, and
guilt, and reduced sensitivity to others' emotions) in the development of severe and …

Preventing problem behavior requires an understanding of earlier factors that are amenable
to intervention. The main goals of our prospective longitudinal study were to trace …

Psychological disorders co-occur often in children, but little has been done to document the
types of conjoint pathways internalizing and externalizing symptoms may take from the …