When No Diagnosis “Fits”: Diagnostically Homeless and Emotionally Dysregulated Children and Adolescents

Deborah M. Weisbrot; Gabrielle A. Carlson

doi:10.1016/j.chc.2020.10.015

When No Diagnosis “Fits”: Diagnostically Homeless and Emotionally Dysregulated Children and Adolescents

Deborah M. Weisbrot
, Gabrielle A. Carlson

Psychiatry

Stony Brook University

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Abstract

Clinical experience supports the concept of children with severe disturbances in most areas of functioning, with psychiatric symptom onset before age 6. They are emotionally dysregulated and extremely anxious and have developmental difficulties. Given the absence of an appropriate diagnostic category, it is best to consider clinical phenomenology and then categorize each dysfunction domain (mood/anxiety problems, possible psychosis, language impairment/thought disorder, and relationship/social problems).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	445-457
Number of pages	13
Journal	Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America
Volume	30
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chc.2020.10.015
State	Published - Apr 2021

Keywords

Diagnostically homeless
Multi-dimensionally impaired disorder
Multiple complex developmental disorder
Schizotypal personality disorder

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