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This chapter examines the contribution of epidemiological research to our understanding of developmental psychopathology. I first review some basic information about the field of epidemiology: the goals and scope of epidemiological research, a brief history of the discipline, and how epidemiological approaches differ from other study designs in developmental psychopathology. The bulk of the chapter is devoted to consideration of the types of research questions in developmental psychopathology that can be uniquely addressed using epidemiological research designs and a review of hallmark findings produced by developmental epidemiology. The chapter ends with a discussion of how epidemiological approaches can be incorporated into one’s own research program, with an eye towards encouraging researchers to capitalize on the increasing armamentarium of publicly available epidemiological datasets that can be used to advance our understanding of developmental psychopathology. This chapter builds on seminal reviews of this topic by Jane Costello and Adrian Angold (Angold & Costello, 1995; Costello & Angold, 1995; Costello, Egger, & Angold, 2005; Costello, Foley, & Angold, 2006) that describe the central methods of developmental epidemiology and their application to questions in developmental psychopathology.

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McLaughlin, K.A. (2014). Developmental Epidemiology. In: Lewis, M., Rudolph, K. (eds) Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9608-3_5

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