[Diagnosis and classification of personality disorders in adolescence - how can current research findings contribute to an understanding of this construct?].
OBJECTIVE
The diagnosis and classification of personality disorders in adolescence remains a controversially discussed topic.


METHODS
This review reports recent research findings on the comorbidity and the diagnosis of personality disorders in adolescence and on their neurobiological and neuropsychological correlates.


RESULTS
On the one hand, the latest research findings refer to the implication that personality disorders in adolescence can be reliably diagnosed with the existing instruments used in the diagnosis of adults. On the other hand, researchers criticize the lack of a youth-specific concept of assessment, which could be used as a common foundation to study this clinically so relevant disorder.


CONCLUSIONS
Diagnostic as well as longitudinal studies within the scope of networks are required in order to differentiate personality disorders in adolescence from other youth-related disorders.
Krischer
Maya
M
Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters der Universität zu Köln (Direktor: Prof. Dr. G. Lehmkuhl). Maya.Krischer@uk-koeln.de
Sevecke
Kathrin
K
Petermann
Franz
F
Herpertz-Dahlmann
Beate
B
Lehmkuhl
Gerd
G
D000293:Adolescent; D015897:Comorbidity; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results