Thinking Adult in Adolescent Psychiatry

  • Lennart Jansson
  • Julie Nordgaard
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Abstract

In this chapter we will briefly address aspects of adolescent psychiatry of special significance for adult psychiatry. Mental illness often makes its first appearance in the early years. Mental difficulties in childhood and adolescence predict adult mental difficulties. The early course of schizophrenia is characterized in most cases by premorbid personality disorder and a prodromal break of the functional curve. Self-disorders, considered specific of the schizophrenia spectrum, may be detected during adolescence. Disorganized schizophrenia has an earlier (adolescent) onset than the paranoid subtype. An important differential diagnosis of early symptom-poor schizophrenia is the autism spectrum disorders. Temperamental and behavioral traits in childhood and adolescence portend bipolar disorder. The early course of bipolar disorder is often neglected, and especially hypomania is misjudged or overlooked.

Keywords

Autism Spectrum Disorder Bipolar Disorder Personality Disorder Borderline Personality Disorder Prodromal Symptom 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Lennart Jansson
    • 1
  • Julie Nordgaard
    • 2
  1. 1.Mental Health Center HvidovreUniversity Hospital of CopenhagenBroenbyDenmark
  2. 2.Early Psychosis Intervention Center Region Zealand & Institute for Clinical MedicineUniversity of CopenhagenBroenbyDenmark

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