Equifinality and multifinality in developmental psychopathology
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Equifinality, multifinality, and immorality in a life of crime.
Although more commonly used in the developmental psychopathology literature (see Cicchetti & Rogosch, 1996), equifinality and multifinality are also important concepts for criminology and criminal justice. Equifinality captures the notion that various background risk factors can eventuate in the same outcome, such as arrest, conviction, or criminal career. An assortment of initial conditions, p...
متن کاملTaxometrics and developmental psychopathology.
Developmental psychopathologists have criticized categorical classification systems for their inability to account for within-group heterogeneity in biological, etiological. developmental, and cultural influences on behavior. Dichotomizing continuous scores of symptom severity is also inadvisable statistically. Perhaps because of a resulting wariness of categorizing, few explorations into the o...
متن کاملDevelopmental psychopathology: concepts and challenges.
The defining features of developmental psychopathology concepts include attention to the understanding of causal processes, appreciation of the role of developmental mechanisms, and consideration of continuities and discontinuities between normality and psychopathology. Accomplishments with respect to these issues are reviewed in relation to attachment disorders, antisocial behavior, autism, de...
متن کاملSystems theory and cascades in developmental psychopathology.
In the wake of prominent theoreticians in developmental science, whose contributions we review in this article, many developmental psychologists came to endorse a systems approach to understanding how the individual, as it develops, establishes functional relationships to social ecological contexts that from birth to school entry rapidly increase in complexity. The concept of developmental casc...
متن کاملCognitive and affective neuroscience and developmental psychopathology.
Can the connection between psychology and neuroscience provide a sufficient framework to support the study of the development of maladaptation and psychopathology? This Special Issue is devoted to papers that address this general issue within their specific domains. If we hope to provide a definitive answer to the question posed above, then it is important to know how cognitive and affective ne...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Development and Psychopathology
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0954-5794,1469-2198
DOI: 10.1017/s0954579400007318