title: Child psychiatry: the interface between clinical and developmental research.
abstract: Developmental psychopathology constitutes a research strategy that is concerned with questions about continuities and discontinuities over time (the developmental perspective) and over the span of behavioural variation (the psychopathological perspective). The utility of this approach is discussed in relation to childhood depression, autism and schizophrenia, and the effects of adverse life experiences.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D005190:Family; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D007223:Infant; D008016:Life Change Events; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D010553:Personality Development; D011599:Psychopathology; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012931:Social Environment