Irritability and Assessment of İrritability in Children
Journal Title: Turkish Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health - Year 2020, Vol 27, Issue 1
Abstract
Irritability, which is a symptom detected in both normal developmental processes and various psychiatric disorders, has recently been of interest to clinicians working in the field of children and adolescents psychiatry. Irritability is defined as low anger threshold in response to frustration, state of nervousness incompatible with developmental level or prolonged state of this nervousness. Irritability, which is a diagnostic criterion for depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and oppositional defiant disorder, has taken its place as the main symptom of the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5 diagnosis, “Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder”. In this article, general characteristics of irritability detected in childhood and information about the evaluation of irritability will be shared.
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Arzu Çalışkan Demir, Özlem Özcan
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- DOI 10.4274/tjcamh.galenos.2020.98608
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