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The developmental psychopathology perspective emphasizes the significance of prospective longitudinal research designs that follow a sample of individuals across time for multiple time points. If a researcher wants to investigate the association between childhood maltreatment and development of depression in adolescence, they could design a prospective longitudinal study that first examines a sample of young children and asks parents about maltreatment experiences and depression symptoms. Then, researchers would follow up during adolescence for another report of depression symptoms. This method allows researchers to study how depression symptoms develop from early childhood to adolescence and ask about current maltreatment experiences in early childhood.