Emotions and emotion regulation in developmental psychopathology

1995 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dante Cicchetti ◽  
Brian P. Ackerman ◽  
Carroll E. Izard
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Developmental Psychopathology ◽  
Developmental Model ◽  
Abnormal Development ◽  
Contemporary Theory ◽  
Rich History

AbstractThe understanding of emotions possesses important implications for elucidating normal as well as abnormal development. The contributions that the emotions have made for enhancing our understanding of psychopathology have been evident throughout history. In this article, an overview of the historical links between the emotions and psychopathology is presented. Despite its rich history, much contemporary theory and research on emotions has been conducted primarily within a nonpathology perspective. In recent decades, investigators have become more interested in examining the role and development of the emotions in atypical populations. It has been argued that the modularity of the emotions system requires a developmental model of emotion regulation.

Development of self-inflicted injury: Comorbidities and continuities with borderline and antisocial personality traits

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (4pt1) ◽  
pp. 1071-1088 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila E. Crowell ◽  
Erin A. Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Psychopathology ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Developmental Model ◽  
Social Mechanisms ◽  
Antisocial Personality ◽  
Vulnerability Factors ◽  
Developmental Theories ◽  
Antisocial Personality Traits ◽  
Destructive Behaviors ◽  
Clinical Problems

AbstractSelf-inflicted injury (SII) is a continuum of intentionally self-destructive behaviors, including nonsuicidal self-injuries, suicide attempts, and death by suicide. These behaviors are among the most pressing yet perplexing clinical problems, affecting males and females of every race, ethnicity, culture, socioeconomic status, and nearly every age. The complexity of these behaviors has spurred an immense literature documenting risk and vulnerability factors ranging from individual to societal levels of analysis. However, there have been relatively few attempts to articulate a life span developmental model that integrates ontogenenic processes across these diverse systems. The objective of this review is to outline such a model with a focus on how observed patterns of comorbidity and continuity can inform developmental theories, early prevention efforts, and intervention across traditional diagnostic boundaries. Specifically, when SII is viewed through the developmental psychopathology lens, it becomes apparent that early temperamental risk factors are associated with risk for SII and a range of highly comorbid conditions, such as borderline and antisocial personality disorders. Prevention efforts focused on early-emerging biological and temperamental contributors to psychopathology have great potential to reduce risk for many presumably distinct clinical problems. Such work requires identification of early biological vulnerabilities, behaviorally conditioned social mechanisms, as well as societal inequities that contribute to self-injury and underlie intergenerational transmission of risk.

scholarly journals Instantiating the multiple levels of analysis perspective in a program of study on externalizing behavior

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 1003-1018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore P. Beauchaine ◽  
Lisa M. Gatzke-Kopp
Keyword(s):  
Middle Childhood ◽  
Externalizing Behavior ◽  
Developmental Psychopathology ◽  
Personality Development ◽  
Developmental Model ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Trait Impulsivity ◽  
Multiple Levels

AbstractDuring the last quarter century, developmental psychopathology has become increasingly inclusive and now spans disciplines ranging from psychiatric genetics to primary prevention. As a result, developmental psychopathologists have extended traditional diathesis–stress and transactional models to include causal processes at and across all relevant levels of analysis. Such research is embodied in what is known as the multiple levels of analysis perspective. We describe how multiple levels of analysis research has informed our current thinking about antisocial and borderline personality development among trait impulsive and therefore vulnerable individuals. Our approach extends the multiple levels of analysis perspective beyond simple Biology × Environment interactions by evaluating impulsivity across physiological systems (genetic, autonomic, hormonal, neural), psychological constructs (social, affective, motivational), developmental epochs (preschool, middle childhood, adolescence, adulthood), sexes (male, female), and methods of inquiry (self-report, informant report, treatment outcome, cardiovascular, electrophysiological, neuroimaging). By conducting our research using any and all available methods across these levels of analysis, we have arrived at a developmental model of trait impulsivity that we believe confers a greater understanding of this highly heritable trait and captures at least some heterogeneity in key behavioral outcomes, including delinquency and suicide.

Toward a Developmental Model of Child Compliance: The Role of Emotion Regulation in Infancy

1999 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia A. Stifter ◽  
Tracy Spinrad ◽  
Julia Braungart-Rieker
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Developmental Model ◽  
Child Compliance

scholarly journals Mutual influences between child emotion regulation and parent–child reciprocity support development across the first 10 years of life: Implications for developmental psychopathology

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (4pt1) ◽  
pp. 1007-1023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Feldman
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Developmental Psychopathology ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Sinus Arrhythmia ◽  
Age Appropriate ◽  
Pathological Development ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Heterotypic Continuity ◽  
Infant Birth ◽  
Time Point

AbstractElucidating the mechanisms by which infant birth conditions shape development across lengthy periods is critical for understanding typical and pathological development and for targeted early interventions. This study examined how newborns' regulatory capacities impact 10-year outcomes via the bidirectional influences of child emotion regulation (ER) and reciprocal parenting across early development. Guided by dynamic systems theory, 125 infants were tested at seven time points: birth, 3, 6, 12, and 24 months and 5 and 10 years. Initial regulatory conditions were measured by respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA; vagal tone) and neurobehavioral regulation (Brazelton, 1973) at birth. At each assessment between 3 months and 5 years, infant ER was microcoded from age-appropriate paradigms and mother–child reciprocity observed during social interactions. Four regulation-related outcomes were measured at 10 years: child RSA, empathy measured by mother–child conflict discussion and a lab paradigm, accident proneness, and behavior problems. An autoregressive cross-lagged structural model indicated that infant birth conditions impacted 10-year outcomes via three mechanisms. First, child ER and reciprocal parenting were individually stable across development and were each predicted by regulatory birth conditions, describing gradual maturation of ER and reciprocity over time. Second, better ER skills at one time point were related to greater reciprocity at the next time point and vice versa, and these cross-time effects defined a field of individual-context mutual influences that mediated the links between neonatal RSA and 10-year outcomes. Third, direct associations emerged between neonatal regulation and outcome, suggesting that birth conditions may establish a neurobiological milieu that promotes a more mature and resilient system. These mechanisms describe distinct “attractor” states that constrain the system's future options, emphasize the importance of defining behavior-based phenotypes of heterotypic continuity, and suggest that infants may shape their development by initiating unique cascades of individual-context bidirectional effects.

scholarly journals Antisocial behavior from a developmental psychopathology perspective

2009 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 1111-1131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Frick ◽  
Essi Viding
Keyword(s):  
Antisocial Behavior ◽  
Developmental Psychopathology ◽  
Development Model ◽  
Abnormal Development ◽  
Antisocial Behaviors ◽  
Callous Unemotional ◽  
Callous Unemotional Traits ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Causal Theories

AbstractThis paper reviews research on chronic patterns of antisocial behavior and places this research into a developmental psychopathology framework. Specifically, research suggests that there are at least three important pathways through which children and adolescents can develop severe antisocial behaviors. One group of youth shows antisocial behavior that begins in adolescence, and two groups show antisocial behavior that begins in childhood but differ on the presence or absence of callous–unemotional traits. In outlining these distinct pathways to antisocial behavior, we have tried to illustrate some key concepts from developmental psychopathology such as equifinality and multifinality, the importance of understanding the interface between normal and abnormal development, and the importance of using multiple levels of analyses to advance causal theories. Finally, we discuss how this development model can be used to enhance existing interventions for antisocial individuals.

scholarly journals The place of psychodynamic theory in developmental psychopathology

2000 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER FONAGY ◽  
MARY TARGET
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Data ◽  
Developmental Psychopathology ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theory ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Frames Of Reference ◽  
Abnormal Development ◽  
Psychodynamic Theory ◽  
Empirical Base ◽  
Relative Independence ◽  
Developmental Science

Psychoanalysis ushered in this century. Will its influence on developmental psychopathology end in the next? The paper explores some critical obstacles in the way of psychodynamic research, including the fragmentation of psychoanalytic theory, the relative independence of theory from its clinical and empirical base, the predominance of inductive scientific logic, the polymorphous use of terms, the privacy of clinical data, the dominance of the reconstructionist stance, and the isolation of psychoanalysis from psychology and neurobiology. Notwithstanding these limitations, core psychoanalytic precepts are not only consistent with some of the most important advances of the last decade but may also be helpful in elaborating these new discoveries in the next century. Psychoanalysis is centered on the notion that complex, conflicting, unconscious representations of mental states constitute a key facet of normal and abnormal development. This notion retains its power, and deserves a prominent position among the major frames of reference to guide developmental science in the next century.

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