Autor: Jim Stevenson

Jim Stevenson, Ph.D., is Emeritus Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Southampton. He has published more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He was one of the editors of the 5th Edition of Rutter’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the definitive textbook in this field. For a decade, he served as Editor and then Senior Editor of the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. He has undertaken a wide range of research studies on behaviour problems in young children, hyperactivity/ADHD, language and reading development, child sexual abuse, food additives, the psychological development of children with a permanent childhood hearing loss and of children born prematurely. Several of these research studies used twins to identify the role of genetic and environmental influences on individual differences in development.