Severe personality disorder emerging in childhood: A proposal for a new developmental disorder

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-28

  Vizard, Eileen ^a   French, Lesley ^a   Hickey, Nicole ^a   Bladon, Emily ^a  

^a Peckwater Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; HUMAN; ONSET AGE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CONDUCT DISORDER; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; SEX OFFENSES;

EID: 0347132252     PISSN: 09579664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cbm.557     Document Type: Review

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