Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
Dev Psychopathol. 2021 Dec;33(5):1648-1664. doi: 10.1017/S095457942100064X.
The relationships infants and young children have with their caregivers are fundamental to their survival and well-being. Theorists and researchers across disciplines have attempted to describe and assess the variation in these relationships, leading to a general acceptance that caregiving is critical to understanding child functioning, including developmental psychopathology. At the same time, we lack consensus on how to assess these fundamental relationships. In the present paper, we first review research documenting the importance of the caregiver-child relationship in understanding environmental risk for psychopathology. Second, we propose that the National Institute of Mental Health's Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative provides a useful framework for extending the study of children's risk for psychopathology by assessing their caregivers' . Third, we describe the units of analysis for caregiver documenting how the specific subconstructs in the domain of are relevant to the goal of enhancing knowledge of developmental psychopathology. Lastly, we highlight how past research can inform new directions in the study of caregiving and the parent-child relationship through this innovative extension of the RDoC initiative.
婴儿和幼儿与照料者的关系是他们生存和幸福的基础。跨学科的理论家与研究人员试图描述和评估这些关系的变化，这使得人们普遍认为，照料对于理解儿童的功能，包括发展心理病理学，至关重要。同时，我们对于如何评估这些基本关系，尚未达成共识。在本文中，我们首先回顾了研究文献，这些文献记录了照料者-儿童关系在理解心理病理学环境风险方面的重要性。其次，我们提出，美国国立精神卫生研究所的研究领域标准（RDoC）倡议通过评估儿童照料者的 ，为扩展儿童心理病理学风险的研究提供了一个有用的框架。第三，我们描述了用于照料者 的分析单位，说明了该领域的特定子结构如何与发展心理病理学知识的目标相关。最后，我们强调了通过这一创新的 RDoC 倡议延伸，过去的研究如何为照料和亲子关系的研究指明新的方向。
