Can psychopathology at age 7 be predicted from clinical observation at one year? Evidence from the ALSPAC cohort

Allely, CS; Doolin, O; Gillberg, C; Gillberg, IC; Puckering, C; Smillie, M; McConnachie, A; Heron, J; Golding, J; Wilson, P

Abstract

One of the challenges of developmental psychopathology is to determine whether identifiable pathways to developmental disorders exist in the first months or years of life. Early identification of such disorders poses a similar challenge for clinical services. Using data from a large contemporary birth cohort, we examined whether psychopathology at age seven can be predicted from clinician observation at one year. Two groups of clinical raters observed videos of caregiver–infant interaction. Neither group of raters could reliably identify any precursors of later development of psychopathology in the one-year-old infants in this setting.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2012
• Deposit Date: Oct 13, 2014
• Journal: Research in Developmental Disabilities
• Print ISSN: 0891-4222
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 33
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 2292-2300
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2012.07.009
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2012.07.009
• Related Public URLs: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/research-in-developmental-disabilities/
• Additional Information: Funders : Waterloo Foundation;Yorkhill Children's Foundation;Medical Research Council (MRC);Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre