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Family Context in the Development of Psychopathology

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High public health significance is attached to understanding how family relationships impact child psychopathology. Decades of research have established that a wide array of family characteristics serve as pivotal precursors of children’s mental health outcomes (Morris, Silk, Steinberg, Myers, & Robinson, 2007; Repetti, Taylor, & Seeman, 2002). Reviews of the literature within the framework of “risky” family environments have specifically documented that aggression, conflict, and disengagement in the whole family, parent–child, interparental, and sibling contexts qualify as risk factors for the emergence and persistence of psychological problems throughout childhood and adulthood (Repetti, Robles, & Reynolds, 2011; Repetti et al., 2002). Since the last edition of this book over 10 years ago, significant headway has been made in elucidating the processes and conditions underlying the variability in outcomes of children exposed to these specific family characteristics. By the same token, significant gaps remain in understanding how and why family processes affect children’s mental health within a developmental framework. Accordingly, the overarching objective of this chapter is to describe the progress, potential, and challenges in characterizing the unfolding cascade of developmental processes underlying links between risky family contexts and child psychopathology.

Patrick T. Davies was supported by the James McKeen Cattell Fund Sabbatical Fellowship during the writing of this chapter.

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    Patrick T. Davies Ph.D. & Melissa L. Sturge-Apple Ph.D.

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Davies, P.T., Sturge-Apple, M.L. (2014). Family Context in the Development of Psychopathology. In: Lewis, M., Rudolph, K. (eds) Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9608-3_8

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