The family environment, with all its complexity and diverse components, plays a critical role
in shaping neurodevelopmental outcomes in children. Herein we review several domains of�…

Background Extant research has demonstrated that parenting behaviour can be a significant
contributor to the development of brain structure and mental health during adolescence�…

High public health significance is attached to understanding how family relationships impact
child psychopathology. Decades of research have established that a wide array of family�…

Objective: The Adverse Childhood Experiences study suggests childhood adversity is a
“root” origin for health and human development. Newer research is examining the more�…

Background Behavioral genetic research has historically concluded that the more important
environmental influences were nonshared or result in differences between siblings, whereas�…

Recent research is providing family therapists with new information about the complex
interaction between an individual's biological makeup and his/her social and physical�…

Parental and social factors have long-term impact on the neurodevelopment of offspring, but
tend to highly covary with each other. Thus, it is difficult to parse out which parental and�…

We examine resilience in relation to one type of risk—familial risk—from a genetic
perspective. Specifically, we ask why only some children growing up with the same familial�…

Accumulating evidence suggests that social contexts in early life have important and
complex effects on childhood psychopathology. Spurred by the lack of an explicit�…

A substantial body of research links social disadvantage and developmental health via a
cascade running from poverty, to cumulative psychosocial risk, to disrupted family dynamics�…