Social Cognition and Developmental Psychopathology

by Sharp, Carla; Fonagy, Peter; Goodyer, Ian

• ISBN13: 9780191754432
• ISBN10: 0191754439
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2013-02-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Carla Sharp, ,Peter Fonagy, Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis, Head of the Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London and Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre, London, UK,Ian Goodyer, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, UK

Carla Sharp completed her training as a clinical psychologist at the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) in 1996. After completing her Ph.D in Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Cambridge in 2000, she obtained an NHS Post-doctoral Fellowship at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge where she completed her post-doctoral work in Developmental Psychopathology and social cognition. She was appointed Assistant Professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry, Baylor College of Medicine in 2004. Her published work reflects her interests in social-cognitive and affective processing as it relates to childhood disorder as well as her interest in psychometrics. Her current work reflects an expansion of her previous interest to include investigations into the neurobiological mechanisms and neural computations of social-cognitive-, affective-, and reward processing in the developing brain and how it relates to psychiatric disorder in children.


Peter Fonagy, PhD, FBA, is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Head of the Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology at University College London; Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre, London; and Consultant to the Child and Family Program at the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Baylor College of Medicine. He is Chair of the Postgraduate Education Committee of the International Psychoanalytic Association and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is a clinical psychologist and a training and supervising analyst in the British Psycho-Analytical Society in child and adult analysis. His work integrates empirical research with psychoanalytic theory, and his clinical interests center around borderline psychopathology, violence, and early attachment relationships. He has published over 300 chapters and articles and has authored or edited several books.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Carla Sharp, Peter Fonagy & Ian Goodyer
Part I - Developmental Disorders
2. Social cognition and autism spectrum conditions, Simon Baron-Cohen, Ofer Golan, Bhismadev Chakrabarti & Matthew K Belmonte
3. Social cognition in children with learning disabilities, Michal Shaked & Nurit Yirmiya
4. Language and theory of mind in atypically developing children: evidence from studies of deafness, blindness and autism, Michael Siegal & Candida C Peterson
Part II - Externalizing Disorders
5. Social cognition and disruptive behaviour disorders in young children: families matter, Claire Hughes & Rosie Ensor
6. Social information processing and the development of conduct problems in children and adolescents: looking beneath the surface, Jacquelyn Mize & Gregory S Pettit
7. Empathic dysfunction in psychopathy, James Blair
Part III - Internalizing Disorders
8. Social cognition in depressed children and adolescents, Zoe Kyte & Ian M Goodyer
9. Social cognition and anxiety in children, Robin Banerjee
10. Social cognition and attachment-related dissorders, Carla Sharp & Peter Fonagy
Part IV - Other Considerations
11. Attachment, affect-regulation and mentalization: the developmental origins of the representational affective self, Gyorgy Gergely & Zsolt Unoka
12. Making links between emotion understanding and developmental psychopathology in young children, Marc de Rosnay, Paul L Harris & Francisco Pons
13. Social cognition and genetics, Thomas C O'Connor & Cathy Creswell
14. Treatment outcome of childhood disorders: the perspective of social cognition, Peter Fonagy & Carla Sharp