Mental disorders from childhood to midlife

Avshalom Caspi, Ph.D., professor i psykologi og nevrovitenskap ved Duke University i USA og professor i personlighetsutvikling ved King’s College i London. 

Moffitt er også nestleder for en av verdens mest berømte studier: The Dunedin Longitudinal Study. Her har forskerne fulgt et helt fødselskull fra Dunedin i New Zealand fra 1972 og frem til i dag. Foredraget baserer seg på funn fra denne studien. https://dunedinstudy.otago.ac.nz/ www.moffittcaspi.com

Foredraget vil holdes på engelsk, og vil strømmes fra USA.

Mental-health professionals typically encounter a patient at one point in his or her life. This cross-sectional view fosters a focus on the current presenting disorder(s). But what happens outside the clinic, and what happens across development? Moffitt and Caspi present new data from the longest longitudinal study of mental health to show how mental disorders ebb and flow over the life course, from childhood to midlife. Surprises emerge regarding when mental disorders develop, how common they are, and how they diversify with time. They present evidence of potent risk factors and health-damaging sequelae and discuss why life-course health policy needs to promote the mental health of children not only for intrinsic reasons, but because doing so may improve the health of the population.