Nathan L. Williams, Ph.D. Psych 609: Vulnerabilities to Emotional Disorders: A Developmental Vulnerability-Stress Perspective

October 8

A Developmental Perspective on Vulnerability + The Emergence of Gender Differences

Gibb, B. (2005). Cognitive Vulnerability-Stress Models of Psychopathology: A Developmental Perspective. (CHAPTER 5: HANKING & ABELA)

Bongers, I. L., Koot, H. M, van der Ende, J., & Verhulst, F. C. (2003). The normative development of child and adolescent problem behaviour. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 112, 179 - 192.

Culbertson (1997). Depression and Gender: An international review. American Psychologist, 52.

Ge, X., Conger, R.D., & Elder, G.H., Jr. (2001). Pubertal transition, stressful life events, and the emergence of gender differences in adolescent depressive symptoms. Developmental Psychology, 37, 404-417.

Hankin, B.L., & Abramson, L.Y. (2001). Development of gender differences in depression: An elaborated cognitive vulnerability-transactional stress theory. Psychological Bulletin, 27, 773-796.

Nolen-Hoeksema, S., Larson, J., & Grayson, C. (1999). Explaining the gender difference in depressive symptoms. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 1061 - 1072.

Kaltiala-Heino, R., Rimpela, M., Rissanen, A., & Rantanen, P. (2001). Early puberty and early sexual activity are associated with bulimic-type eating pathology in middle adolescence. Journal of Adolescent Health, 28, 346-352.

O'Dea, & Abraham, S. (1999). Onset of disordered eating attitudes and behaviors in early adolescence: Interplay of pubertal status, gender, weight, and age. Adolescence, 34, 671-679.

Polivy, J., & Herman, C.P. (2002). Causes of eating disorders. Annual Review of Psychology, 53, 187-213.

Stice, E., & Bearman, S.K. (2001). Body-image and eating disturbances prospectively predict increases in depressive symptoms in adolescent girls: A growth curve analysis. Developmental Psychology, 37, 597-607.

 

October 15

Genetics and Temperament in Internalizing Disorders