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Origins and evolution of behavior disorders : from infancy to early adult life

Title
Origins and evolution of behavior disorders : from infancy to early adult life / Stella Chess, Alexander Thomas.
Author
Chess, Stella.
Publication
New York : Brunner/Mazel, ©1984.

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Additional Authors
Thomas, Alexander, 1914-2003
Description
xiii, 327 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Mental illness > Etiology
  • Child psychopathology > Longitudinal studies
  • Adolescent psychopathology > Longitudinal studies
  • Adjustment disorders
  • Longitudinal method
  • Children
  • Infants
  • Child psychopathology > Etiology > Longitudinal studies
  • Adolescent psychopathology > Etiology > Longitudinal studies
  • Statistics > Methodology
  • Adjustment Disorders
  • Child Behavior Disorders > etiology
  • Child Behavior Disorders > psychology
  • Data Collection
  • Longitudinal Studies
  • Adolescent
  • Child
  • Infant
  • children (people by age group)
  • infants
  • Longitudinal method
  • Infants
  • Children
  • Child psychopathology > Etiology
  • Adjustment disorders
  • Adolescent psychopathology
  • Child psychopathology
  • Mental illness > Etiology
  • Jugend
  • Kind
  • Psychosoziale Entwicklung
  • Verhaltensstörung
  • Gedragsstoornissen
  • Jongeren
  • Kinderen
  • New York City
Genre/Form
Longitudinal studies
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 309-317.
Contents
The need for longitudinal studies -- Theoretical framework -- Sources of data and methods of data collection -- Subject and parent ratings -- The clinical sample over time -- Approach to quantitative data analysis -- Multiple regression analyses: correlations between three-year ratings and early adult adaptation -- Set correlation analyses: correlations between childhood and early adult ratings -- Sex differences -- Summary and overview of the quantitative analyses -- Approach to qualitative data analysis -- High- and low-risk subjects at three years and early adult outcome -- Childhood antecedents of early adult adjustment and adolescence -- Three cases of brain damage -- Origins of behavior disorders -- Evolution of behavior disorders -- Symptom choice -- Adolescent issues -- Parent guidance -- Continuity-discontinuity and developmental stages: a life-span perspective -- The goodness of fit model: theoretical and practical implications -- Overview: what we know; what we don't know -- Appendices : Early adult life interview protocol for subjects ; Adjustment rating scale from 3-year parent interview ; Global adaptations score -- early adult age period.
ISBN
  • 0876303688
  • 9780876303689
LCCN
84014227
OCLC
  • ocm10914913
  • 10914913
  • SCSB-618277
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library