title: Adolescence and diagnostics.
abstract: The major diagnostic categories (schizophrenia, borderline disorder, depression) are reviewed and the difficulties in applying this "adult" classification to adolescence are noted. The reasons for these are numerous, i.e., history of the discovery of diseases, the similarities in psychodynamic functioning between the pathological and the "normal" in adolescence, and prognosis which varies depending on age. How, then, does one distinguish between the pathological and the normal at this age, and is the concept of crisis at all useful?
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Yvoir, Belgium.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zdanowicz
authors.forename: P P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Janne
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Reynaert
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology