3-152 - Development of Developmental Psychopathology: The Legacy of Susan B. Campbell

Session Type: Paper Symposium

Integrative Statement

Developmental psychopathology (DP) integrates basic developmental theory and methods into the study of child and adolescent psychopathology as it evolves over time. Although its interdisciplinary focus -- with explanatory mechanisms from gene, to brain, to behavior, to social and cultural contexts -- may now seem routine, the DP perspective has emerged relatively recently. The aim of this symposium is to consider where the field has come from and where it is going, highlighting the influences of Susan B. Campbell on its emergence, occasioned by her retirement. A former president of APA/Division 12 (Clinical Child Psychology) and chair of SRCD’s Publication Committee, Campbell was an early visionary in arguing that child psychopathology is a function of complex, age-related mediating and moderating processes at multiple levels of analysis, a perspective reflected in each of the presentations.

Four internationally renowned senior investigators (3 presenters; 1 discussant), themselves pioneering contributors to the field, will present their current work, placing it in the context of Campbell’s defining influences. The first paper focuses on mechanisms in the development of problem behavior in children with ADHD, including the roles of peer relationships, family socialization, and maternal depression. The second paper shows how social context and genetic risk moderate developmental pathways to behavior problems in children with depressed mothers. The third paper presents an epigenetic study showing that maternal depression affects gene expression in both mothers and offspring. The discussant will reflect on Campbell’s legacy in the origins and future directions of DP, as illustrated by the presentations.

Sub Unit

• Developmental Psychopathology

Chairs

• Celia A Brownell, University of Pittsburgh

• Daniel S. Shaw, Univ of Pittsburgh

Discussant

• E. Mark Cummings, University of Notre Dame

Individual Presentations

• Peer Relations and Family Context in Developmental Psychopathology: Susan B. Campbell’s Groundbreaking Formulations - Presenting Author: Stephen P Hinshaw, University of California

• Moderating pathways in the Associations between Maternal Support, Maternal Depressive Symptoms, and Child Psychopathology - Presenting Author: Martha J Cox, Univ of North Carolina; Nicholas James Wagner, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; William Roger Mills-Koonce, University of North Carolina Greensboro

• DNA Methylation: Mothers with Major Depressive Disorder and Their 12-Month-Old Offspring - Presenting Author: Dante Cicchetti, University of Minnesota; Susan Hetzel, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota; Fred A Rogosch, University of Rochester; Sheree L Toth, University of Rochester