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Chapter 15 - Developmental Origins of Physical Aggression and Its Prevention: A Bio-Psycho-Social Journey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2025

By
Richard E. Tremblay
Edited by
Frank Kessel
Frank Kessel
Affiliation:
University of New Mexico
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Richard Tremblay started his professional career as a clinician with juvenile delinquents and mentally ill offenders. He spent the rest of his career doing longitudinal and experimental studies to identify effective preventive interventions during the preschool and elementary school years. Results from these studies showed that early interventions with at risk children and their parents had very long-term impacts. Within these longitudinal studies, he also studied genetic and epigenetic effects on the development of violent behavior.

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behavior problemsdelinquencyaggressionpreventiongeneticsepigeneticstwins
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Pillars of Developmental Psychology
Recollections and Reflections
 , pp. 161 - 169
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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Algan, Y., Beasley, E., Côté, S., Park, J., Tremblay, R. E., & Vitaro, F. (2022). The impact of childhood social skills and self-control training on economic and noneconomic outcomes: Evidence from a randomized experiment using administrative data. American Economic Review, 112(8), 2553–2579.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nagin, D. & Tremblay, R. E. (1999). Trajectories of boys’ physical aggression, opposition, and hyperactivity on the path to physically violent and nonviolent juvenile delinquency. Child Development, 70(5), 1181–1196.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Tremblay, R. E. (2010). Developmental origins of disruptive behaviour problems: The “original sin” hypothesis, epigenetics and their consequences for prevention. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 51(4), 341–367.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Tremblay, R. E. (2021). The Science of Violent Behavior Development and Prevention: Contributions of the Second World War Generation. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tremblay, R. E. & Szyf, M. (2010). Developmental origins of chronic physical aggression and epigenetics. Epigenomics, 2(4), 495–499. https://doi.org.10.2217/epi.10.40.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Tremblay, R. E., Vitaro, F., & Côté, S.M. (2018). Developmental origins of chronic physical aggression: A bio-psycho-social model for the next generation of preventive interventions. Annual Review of Psychology, 69, 383–407.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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