Developmental psychopathologists focus on

a. developing therapies for treatment of psychological disorders.
b. disorders of infancy and early childhood.
c. studying the origins and the path of maladaptive behaviors.
d. trying to establish genetic contributions to maladaptive behavior.


c

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