Conceptualizing psychopathology: The importance of developmental profiles

Journal/Book: Dev Psychopathol. 1997; 9: 40 West 20TH Street, New York, NY 10011-4211. Cambridge Univ Press. 321-334.

Abstract: This paper examines critically lour habits of social scientists: a reliance on constructs for processes that do not specify the class of agent or the context oi action, skepticism toward empirical truths that are inconsistent with political or social goals, a reluctance to use profiles or characteristics that have different weights to classify persons, and an aversion to treating subjects with extreme values as representing special categories. These points are: made in the context of the author's research on temperaments in children.

Note: Article Kagan J, Harvard Univ, Dept Psychol, Cambridge,MA 02138 USA

Keyword(s): POSTTRAUMATIC-STRESS; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; BEHAVIOR; CHILDREN; RISK

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