title: Psychosocial adversity and child psychopathology.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Despite strong claims that 'genetic theory' should replace 'socialisation theory', there are good grounds for taking seriously the notion that there are psychosocial influences on child psychopathology.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To re-evaluate this issue in the light of developments over the past half-century.
  
  
  METHODS
  A wide-ranging review of topics related to this issue, 1948-1998.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The findings are used to consider the challenges still to be met as we enter the next century. It is argued that it is necessary to put aside the absurd brain-mind dualisms of the past.
authors.affiliation: Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK.
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Rutter
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002668:Child Rearing; D005544:Forecasting; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008016:Life Change Events; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000235:genetics / Q000266:history* / Q000523:psychology; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011593:Psychology, Social / Q000266:history*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors