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Epidemiology of Child Psychopathology

Major Milestones

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Mental Health and Illness of Children and Adolescents

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Abstract

Background: Child psychiatric epidemiology has developed rapidly from descriptive, cross-sectional studies in the 1960s to the current large-scale prospective cohorts that unravel etiological mechanisms. Objectives: To give an overview of epidemiological studies that have influenced child psychiatry. Methods: A chronological overview of selected major milestone studies to demonstrate the development of child psychiatric epidemiology, with a more in-depth discussion of findings and methodological issues exemplified in one cohort, the Generation R Study

This chapter is an update and extension of Verhulst, F.C. & Tiemeier, H. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry (2015) 24: 607. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-015-0681-9.

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  5. King's College London, London, UK

    Anula Nikapota

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Verhulst, F.C., Tiemeier, H. (2020). Epidemiology of Child Psychopathology. In: Taylor, E., Verhulst, F., Wong, J., Yoshida, K., Nikapota, A. (eds) Mental Health and Illness of Children and Adolescents. Mental Health and Illness Worldwide. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0753-8_11-1

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