...Qian Wang; Zirong Li; Jie Zhong Introduction: This study investigated the structure of the borderline personality features (BPFs) network and the most central BPF in adolescence. Methods: Cross-sectional self-report data from 4,866 Chinese adolescents (M = 13.96, SD = 1.64; 61.3% girls) were...

... childhood. This study focuses on mentalizing – the socio-cognitive ability to attribute and reason in terms of mental states. We aimed to characterize mentalizing performance in terms of correct scores and types of errors in adolescents and young adults with ADHD. Methods: Forty-nine adolescents and adults...

...Nicole Hammann; Michael Kaess; Dan Rujescu; Romuald Brunner; Annette M. Hartmann; Corinna Reichl Introduction: Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a large phenomenon among adolescents, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are a major risk factor in its development. Malfunctioning...

...Annekatrin Steinhoff; Denis Ribeaud; Manuel Eisner; Lilly Shanahan Introduction: We investigated the longitudinal course of self-, other-, and dual-harm in adolescents, focusing on the infliction of physical injury on oneself, another person, or both parties, respectively. We examined the within...

... social mechanisms in the development of personality difficulties within the borderline trait spectrum. Method: The current longitudinal study examined whether experiences of both bullying perpetration and victimization in pre-adolescence mediated the developmental course of BPP traits between childhood...

... personality disorder (BPD). This study investigated aggressive behavior and its biological correlates in adolescents with BPD. Methods: Twenty-one female adolescents with a DSM-IV BPD diagnosis and 25 sex- and age-matched healthy controls participated in the Taylor Aggression Paradigm (TAP), a laboratory...

... or of their effectiveness, quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Adolescence Aggression Depression Self-injurious behavior Shame...

... Experience) instrument may provide a practical way to probe the intersubjective field of the clinical examination; however, its reliability and validity in child and adolescent psychiatrists seeing very young patients is still to be determined. Methods: Thirty-three clinicians and 278 first-contact patients...

.... This developmental shift is a function of the demands placed on individuals to take on independent adult role function, combined with biologically-based maturational cognitive and emotional advances during adolescence. Section II personality disorder ensues when an integrated and coherent sense of self fails...

...: Higher cortical networking during memory encoding was found in suicide risk adolescents compared to the control group. An increase in task difficulty heightened interhemispheric coherence. Conclusions: Higher cortical networking in suicide risk adolescents seems to reflect activation of compensatory...

...: environmental factors are reported to influence offspring DNAm, which in turn associate with child and adolescent psychopathology. However, all analyses have been correlational in nature and, as these studies have focussed on children and adolescents, DNAm has been based on peripheral tissue (cord blood, whole...

...Michael Kaess; Sarah Whittle; Julian G. Simmons; Martina Jovev; Nicholas B. Allen; Andrew M. Chanen Aims: The study aimed to investigate childhood maltreatment, sex, and borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptoms as prospective predictors of adolescent hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis...

... borderline personality pathology (D-BPP). This study aimed to investigate D-BPP in adolescent inpatients with NSSI and SAs. A consecutive sample of 359 adolescent inpatients was assessed for current and past NSSI and life-time SAs. D-BPP and current mental health problems were measured using the Dimensional...

...Svenja Taubner; Laura Zimmermann; Axel Ramberg; Paul Schröder Aim: The present study investigates the role of attachment representation and mentalization as possibly protective factors in the relationship between early maltreatment and potential for violence in adolescence. Methods: For the current...

...Stefan M. van Geelen; Coralie E. Fuchs; Rolf van Geel; Patrick Luyten; Elise M. van de Putte Background: The self and self-experience are often assumed to play an important role in adolescent patients presenting with severe somatic symptoms and bodily distress. Nonetheless, most empirical work...

... were examined in clinical and non-clinical adolescent samples. Methods: Two adolescent samples were assessed with the NI-90: a non-clinical sample (n = 439, mean age ± SD = 15.05 ± 1.77 years) and a clinical sample (n = 235, 18.26 ± 0.77 years). Confirmatory factor analysis and principle component...

...Judith Sinzig; Martin H. Schmidt; Julia Plueck Background: Concepts of affective disorders have not received substantial validation in childhood and adolescence even after the theoretical separation between neurotic and endogenous depression was changed. The aim of this study was to assess...

... from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder Child Behavior Checklist Adolescence Original Paper Psychopathology 2006;39:227 235 DOI: 10.1159/000093923 Received: January 28, 2005 Accepted after...

...Filippo Muratori; Valentina Viglione; Sandra Maestro; Lara Picchi Objective: To identify the prevalence of internalizing and externalizing conditions in referred anorexic adolescents. Method: Child Behavior CheckList (CBCL) and Youth Self Report (YSR) were used to assess psychopathology...

...S. Presta; D. Marazziti; L. Dell’Osso; C. Pfanner; P. Pfanner; M. Marcheschi; G. Masi; F. Muratori; M. Mucci; S. Millepiedi; G.B. Cassano Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common psychiatric condition during childhood and adolescence, which continues to be underestimated and undertreated...