By Dante Cicchetti, Donald J. Cohen
Developmental Psychopathology, quantity three, threat, sickness, and variation offers a lifestyles span developmental standpoint on "high-risk" stipulations and psychological problems. additionally, it examines developmental pathways to resilient variation within the face of adversity.
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In the following section, we consider three distinct interventions that purposively incorporate aspects of social support to achieve particular treatment goals. First, we describe a treatment for depression that focuses almost exclusively on the social aspects of the disorder. Originally developed for adults, interpersonal psychotherapy has been adapted for adolescents because of the salience of relationships in adolescent development as well as the time-limited nature of this intervention (Mellin & Beamish, 2002; Mufson & Moreau, 1999).
But in their efforts to be emotionally supportive, these network associates failed to challenge abusive practices and instead overlooked signs of parental dysfunction, minimized the seriousness of abuse, and offered reassurance about the mothers’ good intentions while providing noncritical emotional affirmation. In so doing, of course, they contributed 14 Social Support and Developmental Psychopathology little to curbing abusive practices or protecting the children, and were thus ineffective in preventing the death of these children.
The enhancement of social support (especially the dimensions of support most relevant to a child’s problems) is also associated with the remediation of symptomatology. Each of these processes underscores the stresspreventive and stress-buffering influences of natural sources of social support in everyday life. The association between social support, stress, and psychological well-being is complicated, however, because enhanced stress can sometimes provoke the deterioration of social support for troubled individuals.