Frontiers of Developmental Psychopathology

In the last 15 years the field of developmentalpsychopathology has made enormous strides in uncovering themechanisms and processes underlying the emergence of mentalillness and dysfunction. Interdisciplinary in nature thefield has engaged the efforts of scientists withorientations ranging from developmental psychology topsychobiology. In Frontiers of DevelopmentalPsychopathology the editors have brought together some ofthe field's most respected researchers--including JeanneBrooks-Gunn Barbara A. Cornblatt Richard A. Depue andMarian Sigman--to discuss the latest research and to offer aperspective on where the field should be heading in thefuture. Focusing on topics as varied as schizophreniaautism depression eating disorders antisocial behaviorand personality disorders each contributor offers a uniqueperspective on a particular subject presents theoreticalguidelines that can be applied to a range of researchendeavors and suggests specific courses for research in thefuture. Frontiers of Developmental Psychopathology is aunique resource that represents a range of opinion one ofthe hottest topics in psychology today. It will beinvaluable to researchers and students of psychopathologyclinical psychology developmental psychology andpsychiatry alike.