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Unravelling risks for child psychopathologies – general lessons from eating disorder research
Author(s) -
Maughan Barbara
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/jcpp.12472
Subject(s) - psychology , eating disorders , psychopathology , relevance (law) , developmental psychopathology , psychotherapist , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , political science , law
Clarifying risks for childhood disorders is one of the core aims of research in developmental psychopathology; disseminating findings from the most robust and clinically relevant of that risk research is a core aim of JCPP . This issue exemplifies that tradition, including articles that use a range of research designs and strategies to confirm – or in some instances disconfirm – the roles of hypothesized risks. It begins with one of our occasional series of reviews of risk research: Culbert, Racine and Klump's lucid synthesis of recent findings on the causes of eating disorders, and the accompanying Commentary by Smith and Davis . These will, of course, be of special interest to those who work in the eating disorders field, but – like all good reviews – their underlying messages have a wider resonance and relevance for the field. We highlight just three issues of particular interest in this Editorial.