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Developmental psychopathology means different things to different people. Here it will be defined as “normal development gone awry” (Wenar, 1982). The basic assumption is that all development is one. As a matter of personal preference, some investigators attempt to trace the path of normal development in order to discover what changes take place at different ages and what laws govern such changes. Other investigators, again as a matter of personal preference, are interested in behaviors that represent significant deviations from the norm and in exploring the ways in which variables responsible for normal development have failed to function as they should. Thus, all abnormalities become developmenta l disturbances. In this view of childhood disturbances normal development is the basic frame of reference for defining and understanding abnormal development.
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Wenar, C. (1990). Childhood Fears and Phobias. In: Lewis, M., Miller, S.M. (eds) Handbook of Developmental Psychopathology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7142-1_22
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