There is a gap between scientific knowledge about typical and atypical emotional development and efforts to identify and serve children's mental health needs. The gap can be bridged with research that integrates clinical perspectives into the study of emotional development. We illustrate this by discussing typical emotional development in early childhood and how it differs from the atypical features of emotion seen among preschool-age children with depression. We suggest new research directions that integrate the study of typical emotional development with clinical evidence of risk for and presence of affective disorders in young children.

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情绪与儿童抑郁症的发展：弥合差距。

关于典型和非典型情绪发展的科学知识与识别和满足儿童心理健康需求的努力之间存在差距。通过将临床观点融入情绪发展研究的研究可以弥补这一差距。我们通过讨论幼儿时期的典型情绪发展以及它与学龄前抑郁症儿童的非典型情绪特征有何不同来说明这一点。我们建议新的研究方向，将典型情绪发展的研究与幼儿情感障碍风险和存在的临床证据相结合。