Benjamin B. Lahey

Psychology

This book is a manifesto for a remarkable revolution in thinking about psychological problems that is rapidly reaching a tipping point. Many psychologists and psychiatrists are proposing a far less stigmatizing understanding of mental health problems. Psychological problems are not terrifying "illnesses" of the mind but are problematic ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving that lie on dimensions from inconsequential to severe. Crucially, they are ordinary aspectsof the human experience, both in the sense of being far more commonplace than previously believed and in arising through the same ordinary interplay of genetic and environmental influences as all behavior.

Replacing Diagnostic Categories with a More Science-Based and Less Stigmatizing Alternative

Dimensions of Psychological Problems

Terrie E. Moffitt

Avshalom Caspi

A great deal has been learned about serious child and adolescent conduct problems, but their causes are still not well understood. This book brings together an international group of leading authorities to advance specific, testable hypotheses about the causes of conduct disorder and juvenile delinquency. Four general causal models are delineated: the social learning model, the developmental pathways model, an integrative antisocial propensity model, and an integrative ecological/developmental model. Also provided are models focusing on specific aspects of the origins of conduct problems, including contextual, psychological, and biological influences. The authors present significant, original theoretical work and map out the kinds of further studies needed to confirm or disconfirm their new or revised hypotheses.

Benjamin B. Lahey

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