ISSN: 0954-5794 (Print), 1469-2198 (Online)
Editors: Benjamin L. Hankin University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, United States, and Glenn I. Roisman University of Minnesota, United States
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This multidisciplinary journal is devoted to the publication of original, empirical, theoretical and review papers which address the interrelationship of typical and atypical development in children and adults. It is intended to serve the field of developmental psychopathology which strives to understand patterns of adaptation and maladaptation throughout the lifespan. This journal is of interest to psychologists, psychiatrists, social scientists, neuroscientists, paediatricians, and researchers.

Evolutionary explanations of anxiety offer a powerful reframing
10 June 2026, Adam Hunt
The RCPsych Article of the Month for June is Clinicians’ attitudes to evolutionary versus genetic explanations for anxiety: cluster-randomised study of stigmatisation.…...

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