thesis
Psychopathology From Childhood Into Adulthood: Follow-Up of An Epidemiological Sample
- Publication date
- 1 November 2000
- Publisher
- Understanding the origins, nature, and course of psychopathology across the life
span is of importance for mental health professionals working with children as well
as for those working with adults. Mental health professionals who work with
children are concerned about the long term consequences of disorders in children
and adolescents, whereas mental health professionals working with adults are often
concerned about childhood origins of adult psychopathology. From both child and
adult perspectives it is hoped that the knowledge about the developmental processes
underlying the course of psychopathology will give us clues with respect to the
prevention and intervention of psychopathology. The individual and societal burdens
that are inherent in the less favorable courses of lllany child and adolescent
psychiatric disorders make it crucial to gain more empirical knowledge of the
development of psychopathology from childhood, across adolescence, and into
adulthood, and the processes influencing the development.