A<unk>  is an inflexible and pervasive pattern of inner experience and behavior in children and adolescents, that markedly deviates from the expectations of the individual's culture.<unk>  is not recognized as a mental disorder in any of the medical manuals, such as the ICD-10 or the DSM-IV, nor the more recent DSM-5. DSM-IV allows the diagnosis of<unk>  disorders in children and adolescents only as an exception. This diagnosis is currently proposed by a few authors in Germany. The term<unk>  is used to emphasize the changes in<unk><unk>  which might still take place and the open outcome during<unk> .<unk>  is considered to be a childhood risk factor or early stage of a later<unk>  disorder in adulthood. Adults usually show<unk>  patterns over a long duration of time. Children and adolescents however still show marked changes in<unk><unk> . Some of these children and adolescents have a hard time developing their<unk> es in an ordinary way. DSM-IV states, for example, that children and adolescents are at higher risk to develop an antisocial<unk>  disorder if they showed signs of conduct disorder and attention deficit disorder before the age of 10. This led Adam & Breithaupt-Peters (2010) to the idea that these children and adolescents need to be looked at more carefully. The therapy which these children and adolescents need might be more intense and maybe even different from looking at the disorders traditionally. The concept of<unk> s also focuses on the severity of the disorder and the poor prognosis. An early diagnosis might help to get the right treatment at an early stage and thus might help to prevent a<unk>  disorder outcome in adulthood.
Personality development disorder
Motivational deficiency disorder
Emotional spectrum disorder
Multiple complex developmental disorder
Frontal lobe disorder
Conduct disorder
Childhood disintegrative disorder
Immature personality disorder