Structure and Etiology of Co-occurring Internalizing and Externalizing Disorders in Adolescents

Latent Impulsivity Subtypes in Substance Use Disorders and Interactions with Internalizing and Externalizing Co-Occurring Disorders

This study explored the clinical importance of latent impulsivity subtypes within a sample of individuals with substance use disorders (SUDs) and high rates of co-occurring disorders (CODs) receiving residential treatment, aiming to assess the heterogeneity of the associations between SUDs and CODs across such impulsivity subtypes. The abbreviated Barratt impulsiveness scale was used to assess ...

The Development of Pure vs. Co-Occurring Externalizing and Internalizing Symptomatology in Children

Changes in maternal depression are associated with MST outcomes for adolescents with co-occurring externalizing and internalizing problems.

The efficacy of Multisystemic therapy (MST) in treating adolescent aggression has been established, however, not all youth and their families benefit from MST. One reason for this treatment variability could be the failure to distinguish between different aggressive subtypes with different risk factors, developmental prognoses and treatment needs. We investigated whether changes in maternal dep...

Borderline personality disorder co-morbidity: relationship to the internalizing-externalizing structure of common mental disorders.

BACKGROUND Borderline personality disorder (BPD) shows high levels of co-morbidity with an array of psychiatric disorders. The meaning and causes of this co-morbidity are not fully understood. Our objective was to investigate and clarify the complex co-morbidity of BPD by integrating it into the structure of common mental disorders. METHOD We conducted exploratory and confirmatory factor anal...

Development of adaptable and flexible treatment manuals for externalizing and internalizing disorders in children and adolescents.

In this paper we describe the process used to develop treatment manuals for internalizing and externalizing disorders in children and adolescents. These manuals were developed to offer health care providers and others working in child mental health a flexible intervention that could be adapted to different countries and localities based on: 1) the amount of health care and school resources that...