Irritability in Early Childhood:Characteristics,Measurements,Risk Factors and Interventions
Irritability is an important transdiagnostic feature for a wide range of psychiatric disorders.This paper summarized the definition of irritability and pointed out that irritability is common during early childhood.Early childhood irritability is developmental and might be harmful to an individual's future life.Based on this,a variety of measurements of early childhood irritability,along with its risk factors and mental interventions were introduced.Future research in this field should focus on the following aspects:(1)Developing a multimodal and multi-index measurement system;(2)Investigating the complex impact mechanisms for early childhood irritability from the per-spective of cognitive-emotional interaction and the bidirectional mechanism between irritability and its risk factors;(3)Designing individualized and multidimensional human-computer interactive intervention programs.