title: Distinguishing healthy from disturbed adolescent development.
abstract: Distinguishing healthy from disturbed adolescent development facilitates accurate diagnosis and timely intervention for troubled adolescents. This distinction needs to take account of (1) ample evidence that normative adolescent development is adaptive rather than tumultuous and (2) reliable indications that certain kinds of symptom formation signal emerging psychopathology rather than normative variations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa 33613.
authors.forename: I B
authors.initials: IB
authors.lastname: Weiner
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000175:diagnosis; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D010553:Personality Development; D011599:Psychopathology; D012917:Social Adjustment