Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
Dev Psychol. 2012 May;48(3):624-7. doi: 10.1037/a0027683.
Ellis et al. (2012) bring an evolutionary perspective to bear on adolescent risky behavioral development, clinical practice, and public policy. The authors offer important insights that (a) some risky behaviors may be adaptive for the individual and the species by being hard-wired due to fitness benefits and (b) interventions might be more successful if they move with, rather than against, the natural tendencies of an adolescent. Ellis and colleagues criticize the field of developmental psychopathology, but we see the 2 fields as complementary. Their position would be enhanced by integrating it with contemporary perspectives on dynamic cascades through which normative behavior turns into genuinely maladaptive outcomes, dual processes in adolescent neural development, and adolescent decision making. Finally, they rightly note that innovation is needed in interventions and policies toward adolescent problem behavior.
埃利斯等人（2012 年）从进化的角度探讨了青少年危险行为的发展、临床实践和公共政策。作者提出了一些重要的观点：（a）由于适应度的好处，一些危险行为可能会通过遗传而成为个体和物种的适应性行为；（b）如果干预措施顺应而不是违背青少年的自然倾向，它们可能会更成功。埃利斯及其同事批评了发展心理病理学领域，但我们认为这两个领域是互补的。如果将其与关于规范行为如何转变为真正适应不良结果的动态级联的当代观点、青少年神经发育的双重过程以及青少年决策等方面的当代观点相结合，他们的立场将会得到加强。最后，他们正确地指出，需要对青少年问题行为的干预措施和政策进行创新。
