Early Childhood Psychopathology Prospectively Predicts Social Functioning in Early Adolescence

Psychopathology in school-age children predicts impairment later in development. However, the long-term psychosocial consequences of early childhood psychopathology are less well known. The current study is the first to prospectively examine how a range of diagnoses and symptoms in early childhood predict psychosocial functioning across specific domains during early adolescence 6-9 years later. A community sample (N = 595; 44.9% female; 88.7%...