Personality disorders in children and adolescents.
The personality disorder (PD) construct continues to be controversial when applied to children and adolescents. Nevertheless, recent research indicates that PDs do occur in youth, and that PDs in youth have meaningful correlates and consequences. We provide a brief review of research on this topic from the past year, and we suggest that evidence for the reality of PDs in youth should be complemented by considerations from the adult PD literature regarding the importance of moving toward a dimensional descriptive system for PDs.
Krueger
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Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, 75 East River Road, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. krueg038@tc.umn.edu
Carlson
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D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012569:Schizotypal Personality Disorder / Q000235:genetics