Recent developments in the conceptualization of externalizing spectrum disorders, including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder, antisocial personality disorder, and substance use disorders, suggest common genetic and neural substrates. Despite this, neither shared vulnerabilities nor their implications for developmental models of externalizing conduct are captured by prevailing nosologic and diagnostic systems, such as the DSM-5.

The Oxford Handbook of Externalizing Spectrum Disorders is the first book of its kind to capture the developmental psychopathology of externalizing spectrum disorders by examining causal factors across levels of analysis and developmental epochs, while departing from the categorical perspective. World renowned experts on externalizing psychopathology demonstrate how shared genetic and neural vulnerabilities predispose to trait impulsivity, a highly heritable personality construct that is often shaped by adverse environments into increasingly intractable forms of externalizing conduct across development. Consistent with contemporary models of almost all forms of psychopathology, the Handbook emphasizes the importance of neurobiological vulnerability and environmental risk interactions in the expression of externalizing behavior across the lifespan. The volume concludes with an integrative, ontogenic process model of externalizing psychopathology in which diverse equifinal and multifinal pathways to disorder are specified.

Theodore P. Beauchaine, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at The Ohio State University. He is past recipient of the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions to Psychology and has served on numerous editorial boards. His research addresses the neural underpinnings and development of both behavioral impulsivity and emotion dysregulation in children, adolescents, and adults.

Stephen P. Hinshaw, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at University of California, Berkeley. He is an internationally recognized research investigator of child and adolescent disorders, award-winning teacher, and author/co-author of more than 275 research articles and chapters plus 10 books. His most recent book, with Richard Scheffler, is The ADHD Explosion: Myths, Medication, Money, and Today's Push for Performance. He is the 2016 recipient of the prestigious James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award for a lifetime of distinguished contributions to applied psychological science.

Part 1: Models of Externalizing Behavior

1. Overview of DSM Disruptive Behavior Disorders
Deborah Drabick, Elizabeth Steinberg, and Ashley Hampton

2. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Similarities to and Differences from other Externalizing Disorders
Shaikh I. Ahmad and Stephen P. Hinshaw

3. Substance Use Disorders as Externalizing Outcomes
Christopher J. Patrick, Jens Foell, Noah C. Venables, and Darrell A. Worthy

4. Self-Injury, Borderline Personality Development, and the Externalizing Spectrum
Erin A. Kaufman, Sheila E. Crowell, and Stephanie D. Stepp

5. The Externalizing Spectrum of Personality and Psychopathology: An Empirical and Quantitative Alternative to Discrete Disorder Approaches
Robert Krueger and Jennifer Tackett

6. The Developmental Psychopathology Perspective on Externalizing Behavior Dimensions and Externalizing Disorders
Stephen P. Hinshaw and Theodore P. Beauchaine

Part II: Biological Vulnerabilities to Externalizing Spectrum Disorders

7. Behavioral Genetics of the Externalizing Spectrum
Devika Dhamija, Catherine Tuvblad, and Laura Baker

8. Molecular Genetic Approaches to Studying the Externalizing Spectrum
Ian Gizer, Jacqueline M. Otto, and Jarrod M. Ellingson

9. Molecular Genetics of the Externalizing Spectrum
Ian Gizer, Jacqueline M. Otto, and Jarrod M. Ellingson

10. Temperament and Vulnerability to Externalizing Behavior
Fernanda V. Krieger and Argyris Stringaris

11. Midbrain Neural Mechanisms of Trait Impulsivity
Aimee Zisner and Theodore P. Beauchaine

12. Prefrontal and Anterior Cingulate Cortex Mechanisms of Impulsivity
Natalie Castellanos-Ryan and Jean Séguin

13. Neural Mechanisms of Low Trait Anxiety and Risk for Externalizing Behavior
Philip J. Corr and Neil McNaughton

14. Sex Differences in the Prevalence and Expression of Externalizing Behavior
Robert Eme

Part III: Socialization Mechanisms of Externalizing Behavior

15. Child Maltreatment and Vulnerability to Externalizing Spectrum Disorders
Adrienne VanZomeren-Dohm, Xiaoyenan Xu, Eric Thibodeau, and Dante Cicchetti

16. Coercive Family Processes in the Development of Externalizing Behavior: Incorporating Neurobiology into Intervention Research
James Snyder

17. Friendship and Adolescent Problem Behavior: Deviancy Training and Coercive Joining as Dynamic Mediators
Thomas J. Dishion, Hanjoe Kim, and Jenn-Yun Tein

18. Neighborhood Risk and Development of Antisocial Behavior
Wesley Jennings and Bryanna Hahn Fox

19. Incarceration and Development of Delinquency
Sytske Besemer and Joseph Murray

Part IV: Cognitive and Emotional Vulnerabilities to Externalizing Spectrum Disorders

20. Externalizing Behaviors and Attribution Biases
Anne-Marie R. Iselin, Allison A. McVey, and Colleen M. Ehatt

21. Callous-Unemotional Traits and the Development of Externalizing Spectrum Disorders
Farrah N. Golmaryami and Paul Frick

22. Low Intelligence and Poor Executive Function as Vulnerabilities to Externalizing Behavior
Michelle Pinsonneault, Sophie Parent, Natalie Castellanos-Ryan, and Jean Séguin

Part V: Other Vulnerabilities to Externalizing Spectrum Disorders

23. Head Injury and Externalizing Behavior
Joan Gerring and Roma A. Vasa

24. Teratogen Exposure and Externalizing Behavior
Diana M. Graham, Leila Glass, and Sara Mattson

Part VI: Externalizing Comorbidities

25. Externalizing and Internalizing Comorbidity
Florence Levy, David J. Hawes, and Adam Johns

26. Comorbidity Among Externalizing Disorders
Molly Nikolas

Part VII: Conclusions and Future Directions

27. An Ontogenic Processes Model of Externalizing Psychopathology
Theodore P. Beauchaine, Tiffany Shadery, and Stephen P. Hinshaw

Index