Alexithymia is common among adolescents with severe disruptive behavior

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 199, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 506-509

  Manninen, Marko ^a,b   Therman, Sebastian ^a,b   Suvisaari, Jaana ^a   Ebeling, Hanna ^c   Moilanen, Irma ^c   Huttunen, Matti ^a   Joukamaa, Matti ^d  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^d TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adolescents; alexithymia; delinquency; incarceration; Toronto alexithymia scale TAS 20

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGGRESSION; ALEXITHYMIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR; EXTERNALIZING; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; INTERNALIZING; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PROBLEM; THOUGHT DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; ATTENTION DEFICIT AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHECKLIST; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 79959887564     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3182214281     Document Type: Article

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