Creating a developmental scale to chart the development of psychopathology with different informants and measures across time.

ABSTRACT: Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) aims to advance a dimensional, multilevel understanding of psychopathology across the life span. Two key challenges exist in applying a developmental perspective to RDoC: First, the most accurate informants for assessing a person's psychopathology often differ across development (e.g., parents and teachers may be better informants of a person's externalizing problems in early childhood, whereas peer- and self-report may also be important to assess in adolescence). Second, many constructs change in their behavioral manifestation across development (i.e., heterotypic continuity). Thus, different informants and measures across time may be necessary to account for the construct's changing manifestation. The challenge of using different informants and measures of

SUBMITTER: Petersen IT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9387173 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature