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.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2292-2300 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Research in Developmental Disabilities |
Volume | 33 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2012 |
Keywords
- ALSPAC
- clinical observation
- infants
- ADHD
- pervasive developmental disorder;
- disruptive behaviour disorder