“…However, co‐occurring and/or persistent RPs can increase the risk of internalising and externalising symptoms and mental disorders across childhood and adolescence (Bilgin et al., ; Cook et al., ; Hemmi, Wolke, & Schneider, ; Hyde, O'Callaghan, Bor, Williams, & Najman, ; Toffol et al., ; Winsper & Wolke, ). The cascade model of development describes how early risk predictors can cumulatively influence maladaptive outcomes over time (Hentges, Graham, Plamondon, Tough, & Madigan, ). The ‘cascade’ represents the extent to which differences in emotion or behaviour maximally affect the next most proximate phase of development, which in turn affects the following stage, and so on (Hyde et al., ).…”