Becoming Good: Early Intervention and Moral Development in Child Psychiatry. (360G-Wellcome-104825_A_14_Z)

This project investigates the emergence of the early intervention paradigm in developmental child psychiatry through a set of linked studies that reveal and critically examine the paradigm's discursive logics, its translational dimensions and its ethical implications. The project focuses on those dimensions of the early intervention paradigm that relate explicitly or implicitly to moral development in children, and which propose biological, social or biosocial interventions at the prodromal stag e. Key Goals: * To explicate the key arguments of the early intervention paradigm in developmental psychiatry, and to contextualise psychiatric knowledge production within a broader social field of early child care concerns * To investigate young people's perspectives in consideration of the harms and goods of early intervention into child moral development and moral conduct * To provide an original empirical investigation of an epigenetics-based early intervention programme for fami lies * To reflexively develop and deploy an empirical ethics approach to guide normative analysis of early intervention strategies into child moral development * To contribute methodological innovations in research methods with children * To provide opportunities for substantive, multi-disciplinary engagements among scholars at various career stages * To build capacity in empirical ethics and related bioethics areas * To support the inclusion of families and young people in debate s about the social and ethical impacts of early intervention into child moral development and moral conduct