title: Can psychopathology at age 7 be predicted from clinical observation at one year? Evidence from the ALSPAC cohort.
abstract: One of the challenges of developmental psychopathology is to determine whether identifiable pathways to developmental disorders exist in the first months or years of life. Early identification of such disorders poses a similar challenge for clinical services. Using data from a large contemporary birth cohort, we examined whether psychopathology at age seven can be predicted from clinician observation at one year. Two groups of clinical raters observed videos of caregiver-infant interaction. Neither group of raters could reliably identify any precursors of later development of psychopathology in the one-year-old infants in this setting.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, RHSC Yorkhill, Glasgow G3 8SJ, Scotland, United Kingdom. Clare.allely@glasgow.ac.uk
authors.forename: C S
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Allely
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Doolin
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gillberg
authors.forename: I C
authors.initials: IC
authors.lastname: Gillberg
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Puckering
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Smillie
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: McConnachie
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Heron
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Golding
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wilson
mesh_terms: D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002659:Child Development Disorders, Pervasive / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D015331:Cohort Studies; D019955:Conduct Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D004739:England; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009769:Object Attachment; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012931:Social Environment