ABSTRACT
A major focus of the research project on adolescent psychopathology being pursued at the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital has been on the construction of a developmental model of self-regulation (i.e., the self as a regulator of affect and impulses). The primary characteristics of this model are that it is relational (i.e., it asserts that regulation emerges from the ongoing interactions of self and other) and developmental (i.e., it asserts that self, as an organization, goes through a series of ontogenetic phases). In ontogenesis, the earlier forms or organizations are preserved and incorporated in later novel forms. This model is designed to account for psychological risk and common vulnerability in adolescence.
