Developmental psychopathology: Substantive, methodological and policy issues

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Braet ◽  
Marcel A.G. van Aken
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Developmental Psychopathology ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Developmental Perspective ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Maladaptive Behaviour

In recent decades, developmental psychopathology has emerged as a discipline for the study of maladaptive behaviour of children and adolescents from a developmental perspective. The articles in the special section illustrate various substantive and methodological advances in this field, and also discuss treatment and policy implications. In addition, some perspectives on issues are presented that will be on the research agenda for developmental psychopathology in the coming years.

scholarly journals Introduction to Special Section: Prosocial Development in Risky and Vulnerable Contexts

2021 ◽  
pp. 016502542199075
Author(s):  
Laura K. Taylor ◽  
Gustavo Carlo
Keyword(s):  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Prosocial Behaviors ◽  
Developmental Perspective ◽  
Developmental Research ◽  
Prosocial Development ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Foundational Work

The introduction highlights a developmental perspective on children’s and youth prosocial behavior in risky and vulnerable contexts. The six empirical papers published in this Special Section are considered within a multilevel, multidimensional framework and reflect a diversity of methodological approaches. The studies each provide foundational work that informs theory, builds our knowledge base, and has important intervention implications. We highlight the contributions of each study and present recommendations for future developmental research on prosocial behaviors.

Conducting policy-relevant developmental psychopathology research

2006 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne C. Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Developmental Psychopathology ◽  
Developmental Change ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Prevention Policy ◽  
Sustaining Change ◽  
Development Change ◽  
Or Practice

Policy, defined broadly to include public policy as well as institutional or organizational policy, is useful for sustaining change in human development and its contexts and systems. The role for developmental psychopathology research in policy analysis and policy making is discussed. To assure that developmental psychopathology research is useful for policy (or practice) requires rigorous strategic thinking, commonly called “systems thinking”. Systems thinking is described and its usefulness tested with a specific example of human development change - that of delinquency career crime prevention. Policy implications are then drawn from the example and generalized to broader human developmental change.

Taming the Obesity Beast: Children, Marketing, and Public Policy Considerations

2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Seiders ◽  
Ross D. Petty
Keyword(s):  
Fast Food ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Longitudinal Tracking ◽  
Fast Food Restaurants ◽  
Role Of Parents ◽  
Packaged Food ◽  
The Impact

This essay explores the policy implications of the findings in this special section for potential remedies and opportunities for further research in the critical area of obesity. Children are an important focus here both because of the dramatic increase in childhood obesity in recent decades and because they lack the cognitive development and social experience to process marketing communications with the sophistication of adults. In addition, children's food purchase decisions are substantially influenced by their parents. Although packaged food marketers are setting their own voluntary restrictions on products to be marketed during entertainment content targeted at children, the impact of such restrictions is limited because children are substantial viewers of general entertainment content. This essay suggests that more prominent nutrition disclosure oriented toward obesity concerns for both packaged foods and fast-food restaurants should be more fully considered. It further suggests that increased marketing research is needed to better understand children as consumers, the role of parents as gatekeepers, and the differences between ethnic population segments. Marketing research also can contribute to the assessment of the effectiveness of different regulatory approaches adopted by various countries and the viability of mass educational approaches versus individual encouragement by parents, doctors, and others. The authors note that because obesity is a long-term health problem, a longitudinal tracking study would be useful in studying both health effects over time and the effectiveness of various policy interventions.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document