The relationships infants and young children have with their caregivers are fundamental to their survival and well-being. Theorists and researchers across disciplines have attempted to describe and assess the variation in these relationships, leading to a general acceptance that caregiving is critical to understanding child functioning, including developmental psychopathology. At the same time, we lack consensus on how to assess these fundamental relationships. In the present paper, we first review research documenting the importance of the caregiver–child relationship in understanding environmental risk for psychopathology. Second, we propose that the National Institute of Mental Health's Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative provides a useful framework for extending the study of children's risk for psychopathology by assessing their caregivers’ social processes. Third, we describe the units of analysis for caregiver social processes, documenting how the specific subconstructs in the domain of social processes are relevant to the goal of enhancing knowledge of developmental psychopathology. Lastly, we highlight how past research can inform new directions in the study of caregiving and the parent–child relationship through this innovative extension of the RDoC initiative.

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通过评估护理人员的社会流程来推进 RDoC 计划

婴幼儿与其照顾者的关系对于他们的生存和福祉至关重要。跨学科的理论家和研究人员试图描述和评估这些关系的变化，导致人们普遍认为照顾对于理解儿童功能（包括发展精神病理学）至关重要。与此同时，我们对于如何评估这些基本关系缺乏共识。在本文中，我们首先回顾了记录照顾者与儿童关系在理解精神病理学环境风险方面的重要性的研究。其次，我们建议国家心理健康研究所的研究领域标准（RDoC）倡议提供了一个有用的框架，通过评估儿童的照顾者的行为来扩展儿童精神病理学风险的研究。社会过程。第三，我们描述护理人员的分析单位社会过程，记录域中的特定子结构如何社会过程与增强发展精神病理学知识的目标相关。最后，我们强调过去的研究如何通过 RDoC 倡议的创新扩展为护理和亲子关系研究提供新的方向。