Development and Prevention of Behaviour Problems

The Development and Prevention of Behaviour Problems: From Genes to Social Policy, brings together world leading researchers from diverse fields to explore the potential causes of the development of behaviour problems. The book presents theories that hope to influence public health, education and social policy in the prevention of the costly social troubles that behaviour problems can cause.

Richard E. Tremblay is Professor of Child Development at the University of MontrÃ(c)al and at University College Dublin. Marcel A. G. van Aken is full professor and chair of the Department of Developmental Psychology at Utrecht University. Willem Koops is distinguished professor in Foundations and History of Developmental Psychology and Education at Utrecht University

R.E. Tremblay, M.A.G. van Aken, W. Koops, Research on the Development and Prevention of Behaviour Problems: A Fundamental Change Still Hard to Grasp for Most Investigators. P. Suomi, How Gene-environment Interactions Shape Biobehavioural Development: Lessons From Studies with Rhesus Monkeys. M. Syzf, I. Weaver, N. Provencal, P. McGowan, R.E. Tremblay, M. Meaney, Epigenetics and Behaviour. T. Paus, Z. Pausova, M. Abrahamowicz, J. Almerigi, N. Arbour, M. Bernard, D. Gaudet, P. Hanzalek, P. Hamet, A.C. Evans, M. Kramer, L. Laberge, S. Leal, G. Leonard, J. Lerner, R.M. Lerner, J. Mathieu, M. Perron, B. Pike, A. Pitiot, L. Richer, J.R. Séguin, C. Syme, R.E. Tremblay, S. Veillette, K. Watkins, Maternal Smoking, Genes and Adolescent Brain and Body: The Saguenay Youth Study. R.E. Tremblay, The Development of Chronic Physical Aggression: Genes and Environments Matter From the Beginning. M.A.G. van Aken, Personality in Children and Adolescents: Development and Consequences. S.M. Côté, A Developmental Perspective on Sex Differences in Aggressive Behaviours. S. Jaffee, Intergenerational Transmission of Risk for Antisocial Behaviour. M. Junger, S. Côté, R.E. Tremblay, Policy Implications of Present Knowledge on the Development and Prevention of Physical Aggression and Violence. J. van der Gaag, From Child Development to Human Development. A.C. Petersen, Inconvenient Truths: Behavioural Research and Social Policy.