The Origins and Course of Psychopathology

Section I Controlled vs. Naturalistic Approaches.- 1 Controlled vs. Naturalistic Experiments: Application of the Life Table Method.- 2 The Psychiatric Case Register: A Versatile Device for the Application of Multiple Methodological Approaches.- 3 A Survey of Issues Related to the Analysis of Observational Data in Longitudinal Research.- 4 A Combined Thirty-Five Year Follow-Up and Family Study of Schizophrenia and Primary Affective Disorders: Sample Selection, Methodology of Field Follow-up, and Preliminary Mortality Rates.- Discussion of Section I.- Section II Life Events.- 5 The Conceptualization and Measurement of Stressful Life Events: An Overview of the Issues.- 6 Remembering Life Events.- 7 Anticipation and Control of Stressful Life Events.- Discussion of Section II.- Section III Studies of Children at Risk.- 8 Longitudinal vs. Cross-Sectional Research in the Study of Children at Risk for Psychopathology.- 9 Prospective Studies to Investigate Behavioral Change.- 10 The Rochester Adaptive Behavior Inventory: A Parallel Series of Instruments for Assessing Social Competence during Early and Middle Childhood and Adolescence.- Discussion of Section III.- Section IV Follow-Up Studies of Psychiatric Patients.- 11 Longitudinal Research on Psychopathology in Psychiatric Patients: Some Assets and Liabilities.- 12 Life History Characteristics of Responders to Drug and Social Therapy in Schizophrenia.- 13 Long-Term Follow-Up of Juvenile and Adult Delinquency with Samples Differing in Some Important Respects: Cross-Validation within the Same Research Program.- 14 Methodological Issues in the Study of Outcome.- Discussion of Section IV.- Section V Relationships Among Variables Affecting Development and Course of Psychopathology.- 15 Detecting Predictors of Rare Events: Demographic, Family and Personal Deviance as Predictors of Stages in the Progression toward Narcotic Addiction.- 16 Problems of Conceptualization and Design in Research on the Evaluation of Treatment for Drug Abuse.- Discussion of Section V.