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Developmental, Quantitative, and Multicultural Assessment of Psychopathology

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In the chapter that I wrote for the first edition of this Handbook (Lewis & Miller, 1990), I focused mainly on how to conceptualize developmental psychopathology. In the second edition of the Handbook (Sameroff, Lewis, & Miller, 2000), my chapter focused on assessment of psychopathology within the conceptual framework of developmental psychopathology. In light of growing awareness of quantitative and cultural variations in people’s needs for help, the time has come to integrate developmental, quantitative, and multicultural concepts, methods, and findings in order to advance both our understanding of behavioral, emotional, and social problems and our efforts to ameliorate them.

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    Thomas M. Achenbach Ph.D.

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Achenbach, T.M. (2014). Developmental, Quantitative, and Multicultural Assessment of Psychopathology. In: Lewis, M., Rudolph, K. (eds) Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9608-3_4

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