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Just like the characters in The Blind Men and the Elephant, we obtain the most complete picture of children’s development (and developmental problems) when we look at it from multiple perspectives. Developmental psychopathologists study childhood disorders across multiple levels of analysis: biological, psychological, and social–cultural. Then, they combine information from across these levels to explain how disorders emerge over time.

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Now it’s your turn to apply the various levels of analysis presented in the text to a clinical case. Read the case study and briefly explain how Valerie’s disorder can be explained in terms of each level, and how the levels might interact with each other, over time, to shape development.