Developmental Concepts
• Scientific Areas Relevant to Modern Psychiatry •
• Developmental Psychology •
• Developmental Concepts •
Sep 08, 05
The concept of development forms the backbone of modern behavioral science. Psychiatric practitioners and behavioral scientists are concerned primarily with change, and developmental psychology is the scientific study of the structure, function, and processes of systematic change across the life span. Even systems of classification of behavior (including psychiatric nosology) take into account not only contemporaneous features and formal similarities among current symptoms but also past qualities, immediate consequences, and long-term outcomes.