Personality disorders begin in adolescence.

Corresponding E-Mail: [email protected] Guest Editorial M health clinicians have long been reluctant to diagnose personality disorders in adolescence. These attitudes have also inhibited the diagnosis of other major mental disorders that begin at this developmental stage. Opposition is based on an incorrect idea: that psychopathology in adolescence is fluid, and that it tends to remit with time. However, recent clinical interest in early psychosis reflects a desire to identify and treat mental disorders at their earliest stages (McGorry, 2013). This principle may well be applicable to personality disorders.