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.
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.