The diagnosis<unk>  should only be given carefully and after a longer period of evaluation. Also a thorough diagnostic evaluation is necessary. Parents should be questioned separately and together with the child or adolescent to evaluate the severity and duration of the problems. In addition standardized personality tests might be helpful. It is also useful to ask the family what treatment approaches they have already tried so far without success. Definition According to Adam und Breithaupt-Peters<unk> s are defined as complex disorders * which show similarity to a certain type of personality disorder in adulthood * which persist over a long period of time (more than a year) and show a tendency towards being chronic * which have a severe negative impact on more than one important area of functioning or social life * which show resistance to traditional educational and therapeutic treatment methods * which result in a reduced insight into or ignorance of the own problem behavior. The family usually suffers more than the child or adolescent and has a hard time dealing with the diminished introspection. * which make positive interactions between the children/adolescents and other people merely impossible. Instead social collisions are part of everyday life. * which threaten the social integration of the young person into a social life and might result in an emotional disability.
Personality development disorder
Motivational deficiency disorder
Emotional spectrum disorder
Multiple complex developmental disorder
Frontal lobe disorder
Conduct disorder
Childhood disintegrative disorder
Immature personality disorder