Self-Regulation and the Development of Behavioral and Emotional Problems: Toward an Integrative Conceptual and Translational Research Agenda

Within the field of developmental psychopathology, there is growing interest in research examining the development of self-regulatory processes and its relevance to understanding the emergence of clinically significant problems with behavior or emotion. Earlier chapters in this book present current conceptual approaches and sets of empirical findings that address these issues. In this chapter, we discuss this exciting and rapidly advancing area of research with a primary goal of considering points of integration across some of the main themes described in the previous chapters; we also present some thoughts about key directions for future research.