2024
DOI: 10.1017/s0954579424000208
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Developmental psychopathology as a meta-paradigm: From zero-sum science to epistemological pluralism in theory and research

Theodore P. Beauchaine

Abstract: In a thoughtful commentary in this journal a decade ago, Michael Rutter reviewed 25 years of progress in the field before concluding that developmental psychopathology (DP) initiated a paradigm shift in clinical science. This deduction requires that DP itself be a paradigm. According to Thomas Kuhn, canonical paradigms in the physical sciences serve unifying functions by consolidating scientists’ thinking and scholarship around single, closed sets of discipline-defining epistemological assumptions and methods.… Show more

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