Since then, this barrier has been greatly reduced, if not eliminated, with the 2015 publication of the four-volume Handbook of Child Development and Developmental Science. In well over four thousand pages, a host of experts contributed over one hundred chapters that detail the evidence for the relational developmental systems (RDS) paradigm. The RDS model seeks to incorporate all developmental theories with their accumulated research evidence into one unique whole, and thus the claim to paradigmatic
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