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