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The British Journal of Psychiatry (2002) 181: 383-386
© 2002 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

REVIEW ARTICLE

Social adversity and mental functions in adolescents at high risk of psychopathology*

Position paper and suggested framework for future research

IAN M. GOODYER, MD, FRCPsych, FMedSci

Developmental Psychiatry Section, Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge University Clinical School, Douglas House, 18b Trumpington Road, Cambridge CB2 2AH, UK

Declaration of interest None. I.M.G. is supported by the Wellcome Trust and this review was carried out within the MRC Cooperative for Brain, Behaviour and Neuropsychiatry.

* The Rutter Lecture; delivered at the Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residential Conference, University of York, 5 October 2001.

Background Social adversities are accepted as critical factors in the development of psychopathology in young people, but the precise mechanisms of this relationship are unknown.

Aims To explore sources of evidence and suggest future lines of research to clarify the relationship between exposure to negative circumstances and development of psychopathology in young people.

Method Selective survey of the literature to collect a series of hypotheses that might serve as a framework for future research.

Results and conclusions Evidence to date suggests there is no simple relationship between adverse life events and the subsequent emergence of psychopathology. The interplay of acute and chronic stressors over the lifespan with affective temperament; the interrelationship of ‘sensitivity’ and ‘performance’ cognitions in response to life events; and limbic-cortical neural networks are all indicated as important avenues of future research.




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