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01-01-2018 | Editorial
Towards understanding and acting on risk factors for developmental psychopathology
Author:
Carmen Moreno
Published in:
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
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Issue 1/2018
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Excerpt
Most common mental disorders appear before adulthood [
1]. Therefore, the ability to identify at-risk children is essential for the design and delivery of prevention programs. Emotional and behavioural dysregulation are key symptomatic expressions of vulnerability in children and important predictors of a broad range of mental outcomes during late adolescence and adult life [
2]. The exploration of risk factors leading to this vulnerability represents an important area of research in child psychiatry. This issue of European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ECAP) includes several articles focusing on predictive factors for emotional and behavioural dysregulation in childhood or adolescence. …