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Developmental psychopathology can be defined in a variety of ways, all having to do with development on the one hand and the resulting set of maladaptive behaviors on the other. We, too, define developmental psychopathology as focusing on and integrating these two traditional areas; however, a third feature needs to be added, namely, maladaptive processes as well as behaviors. Thus, developmental psychopathology is the study of the development of maladaptive behaviors (Sroufe & Rutter, 1984) and also the study of maladaptive processes themselves. Underlying the study of developmental psychopathology is the principle of predictability. Because of the research of Kohlberg, LaCrosse, and Ricks (1972), the prediction of maladaptive behavior has been viewed not only as possible but as an important feature in the study of developmental psychopathology.
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Lewis, M. (1990). Challenges to the Study of Developmental Psychopathology. In: Lewis, M., Miller, S.M. (eds) Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7142-1_3
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