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01-12-2019 | Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder | Editorial

Affective dysregulation: a transdiagnostic research concept between ADHD, aggressive behavior conditions and borderline personality traits

Authors: Robert Waltereit, Franziska Giller, Stefan Ehrlich, Veit Roessner

Published in: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | Issue 12/2019

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In the last months, the German drama film “System Crasher” (German “Systemsprenger”) by Nora Fingscheidt was one of the most controversial and broadly discussed motion pictures being released and presented at several film festivals. It is about the troubled 9-year-old girl, Benni, defying the child welfare system with one single goal: to be back at home with her mother. But her mother is scared of her own daughter. Benni is “out-of-control”, showing frequent and severe temper outbursts comprising violent- and offending attacks to other people as well as full-throated screams and yelling. Nonetheless, this nimble-witted young bundle of energy has a different side: she is very needy and vulnerable. But, due to her inappropriate- and antisocial behavioral-tendencies, the child welfare system is unable to find a placement for her, and she is ‘falling out of the system’. Fortunately, not only in Germany, the film has launched a broad public discussion about this group of children and adolescents at the intersection of child and adolescent psychiatry and child/youth welfare system. …

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Title: Affective dysregulation: a transdiagnostic research concept between ADHD, aggressive behavior conditions and borderline personality traits
Authors: Robert Waltereit
Franziska Giller
Stefan Ehrlich
Veit Roessner
Publication date: 01-12-2019
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keywords: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Disturbance of the Social Behaviour
Published in: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry / Issue 12/2019
Print ISSN: 1018-8827
Electronic ISSN: 1435-165X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-019-01438-x

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