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Childhood Depression and Conduct Disorder
Different Routes to the Same Outcome?
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2001;58:237-238.
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ONE OF the key diagnostic features for many concepts of personality
disorder is that its onset should have occurred in childhood or, at the very
least, no later than adolescence. Indeed, there is a good deal of evidence
that certain childhood problems are associated with the development of personality
difficulties later in life. The most striking findings have come from studies
of children with conduct disorders. The now classic study by Robins1 on the natural history of conduct disorder showed
that nearly half the children with this diagnosis go on to develop antisocial
personality disorder in adult life. Other forms of childhood difficulty are
also associated with later personality problems. For example, in a series
of studies, Quinton and Rutter et al2, 3
showed that chronic familial adversities such as severe marital discord were
strongly associated with poor social functioning in adult life.
The finding that adult personality problems are clearly . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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