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The development of alcohol use disorders.

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This chapter focuses on recent developments in the etiology of alcohol use disorders and ways in which genetic, environmental, psychopharmacological, and personological literatures can inform one another.
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Pathological alcohol use is a complex and costly problem. This chapter focuses on recent developments in the etiology of alcohol use disorders. Literature is reviewed from the fields of epidemiology, genetics, personality, neuropsychology, parenting, and social influences. In addition, theoretical models that describe pathways to the development of alcohol use disorders are presented. Particular emphasis is given to ways in which genetic, environmental, psychopharmacological, and personological literatures can inform one another.

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Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and Possibilities

TL;DR: Mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) disorders—which include depression, conduct disorder, and substance abuse—affect large numbers of young people.
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Linking Antisocial Behavior, Substance Use, and Personality: An Integrative Quantitative Model of the Adult Externalizing Spectrum

TL;DR: The model and assessment instrument that emerged from the research shows how externalizing phenomena are organized hierarchically and cover a wide range of individual differences.
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Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology: The Role of Gender

TL;DR: This review addresses three questions regarding the relationships among gender, emotion regulation, and psychopathology: are there gender differences in emotion regulation strategies, are emotionregulation strategies similarly related to psychopathology in men and women, and do gender differences to account for gender differences for psychopathology.
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A Heuristic for Developing Transdiagnostic Models of Psychopathology Explaining Multifinality and Divergent Trajectories

TL;DR: This article proposes a heuristic for developing transdiagnostic models that can guide theorists in explicating how a trans Diagnostic risk factor results in both multifinality and divergent trajectories and illustrates this heuristic using research on rumination.
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Lifetime and 12-Month Prevalence of DSM-III-R Psychiatric Disorders in the United States: Results From the National Comorbidity Survey

TL;DR: The prevalence of psychiatric disorders is greater than previously thought to be the case, and morbidity is more highly concentrated than previously recognized in roughly one sixth of the population who have a history of three or more comorbid disorders.
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Behavioral inhibition, sustained attention, and executive functions: Constructing a unifying theory of ADHD.

TL;DR: A theoretical model that links inhibition to 4 executive neuropsychological functions that appear to depend on it for their effective execution is constructed and finds it to be strongest for deficits in behavioral inhibition, working memory, regulation of motivation, and motor control in those with ADHD.
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Risk and protective factors for alcohol and other drug problems in adolescence and early adulthood: Implications for substance abuse prevention.

TL;DR: The authors suggest that the most promising route to effective strategies for the prevention of adolescent alcohol and other drug problems is through a risk-focused approach.
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Problem Behavior and Psychosocial Development: A Longitudinal Study of Youth

TL;DR: The second phase of a long-term program of research on problem behavior as mentioned in this paper is the 2nd phase of the longitudinal study of problem behavior in adolescents and youths in American society in the late 1960s and early 1970s, which represents a logical continuation of long term interest in problem behavior and recognition that what was going on among youth and in the student movement can be viewed from a problem-behavior perspective.
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Risky Families: Family Social Environments and the Mental and Physical Health of Offspring

TL;DR: It is concluded that childhood family environments represent vital links for understanding mental and physical health across the life span.
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