FUTURE OF CHILD-PSYCHIATRY .1. MODELS AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES

This article reviews some concepts the author believes will guide scie ntific and clinical work in child psychiatry during the next 25 years. Specifically, it is postulated that the traditional biopsychosocial m odel may have to be expanded to look at ways we can understand transac tional events versus nonshared family characteristics, the development of internal representations and risk factors versus risk carriers.