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From adolescence to adulthood: Development of psychopathology in kibbutz and town subjects

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The unique contribution of the National Institute of Mental Health—Israeli longitudinal high-risk study is the comparison of the development of children at high risk for schizophrenia from two divergent socialization environments: the Israeli urban nuclear family and the collective education in the kibbutz. The study began with 100 preadolescent children who were followed up into adolescence, with outcomes measured in their 20s and 30s. No difference in the prevalence of schizophrenia was found at the last follow-up phase, with subjects at an average age of 32, but a higher incidence of major depression was found in the kibbutz than in the urban high-risk group. The data suggest adolescence as the period in which the differential effects of environment began to appear. Environmental factors, related to the social structure of the kibbutz, which may have led to this outcome, are discussed.

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  1. “Oranim,” School of Education of the Kibbutz movement, Israel

    Michael Nathan (Senior researcher and former director of the Institute of Research on Kibbutz Education), Etha Frenkel & Sol Kugelmass (Samuel Sturman Professor of Psychology, Head of the Center for Human Development, and former dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences)

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  1. Michael Nathan
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Received Ph.D. in psychology from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Engaged in research on socialization in the kibbutz as well as in the NIMH-Israel High-Risk project, and is a practicing psychotherapist.Member of Kibbutz Biet-Qeshet

An educational psychologist practicing within the Jerusalem school system. Has taken a leading part in the fourth phase of the NIMH-Israel High-Risk Study and currently completing a doctoral dissertation in psychology.

Received Ph.D. from Columbia University. Has served as Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Education of Israel. Involved in the NIMH-Israel High-Risk Study from its start and has served as the Israeli principal investigator during its fourth phase.

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Nathan, M., Frenkel, E. & Kugelmass, S. From adolescence to adulthood: Development of psychopathology in kibbutz and town subjects. J Youth Adolescence 22, 605–621 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01537134

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