Developmental Psychopathology

• Multivariate data analytic methods for investigating behavioural differences (e. g. , path analysis, cluster analysis, structural equation modelling, network analysis) and their associated theoretical frameworks (e. g. , hierarchical factor models).
• Methods to investigate the biology of behavioural differences (e. g. , quantitative and molecular genetics, epigenetics, and brain imaging).
• The design of research studies that can test most directly for causality (i. e. , randomised controlled trials) and others that can estimate plausible causal relationships from associations and correlations.
• Reviews of studies that have applied these methods to understand the developmental course of internalising and externalising behaviours and the neurodevelopmental problems of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

Developmental Psychopathology is an essential reference for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians and other professionals in developmental psychology, clinical child and school psychology, child and adolescentpsychiatry, paediatrics, clinical social work, public health, educational psychology, and all related disciplines.

Chapter 1. Introduction to Developmental Psychopathology. - Chapter 2. Data Analysis Frameworks for investigating Behavioural Differences. - Chapter 3. Investigating the Biology of Behavioural Differences. - Chapter 4. Causal Analysis. - Chapter 5. Conceptualising Individual Differences. - Chapter 6. Multilevel Hierarchical Models of Behaviour Differences. - Chapter 7. Internalising Problems. - Chapter 8. Externalising Problems. - Chapter 9. Neurodevelopmental Aspects of Behavioural Differences Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. - Chapter 10. Neurodevelopmental Aspects of Behavioural Differences Autism Spectrum Disorders.