Evolutionary developmental psychopathology is an approach to the understanding of psychiatric disorders based on the following:

He advocates the developmental psychopathology and developmental psychiatry perspective within Psychiatry.

Handbook of developmental psychopathology, 2nd edition.

The matching law greatly expands psychologists' and behavior analysts' understanding of natural phenomena such as development and developmental psychopathology.

He was a pioneer of child and adolescent psychology, and a founder of developmental psychopathology.

The current trend in the U.S. is to understand child psychopathology from a systems based perspective called developmental psychopathology.

The new look of behavioral genetics in developmental psychopathology: Gene-environment interplay in antisocial behaviors.

Dante Cicchetti is acknowledged to have played a pivotal role in defining and shaping the field of developmental psychopathology.

In that special issue he himself wrote a seminal, defining paper titled, "The emergence of developmental psychopathology."

Cicchetti has played a pivotal role in defining and shaping the field of developmental psychopathology.