Introduction: Juvenile delinquency represents a broad term to identify behaviors that vary from engaging in status offenses (eg running away from home, school absenteeism, alcohol consumption) up to engage in criminal acts and violence (use / distribution of illegal substances, burglary, robbery). (Montgomery & colab., 2001) Objectives: Identifying personality disorders in delinquent adolescents. Aims: This paper aimed to determine if juvenile deliquency is related to personality disorders and a set of risk factors. Method: We used a lot of 30 patients, aged 14-18 years, subjected to forensic examination at the Child Psychiatry Clinic of Cluj-Napoca during 2011. To assess personality disorders we used SCID II-structured interview to identify personality disorders on axis II-DSM and a set of questions related to the origin area, socioeconomic status, education level, family environment, consumption of toxic, belonging to certain social groups, family history,were adressed to the adolescents and their parents. To assess intellectual coefficient were used Raven Progressive Matrices. Results: The most common personality disorders found in delinquent teenagers were borderline personality disorder, obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder and traits of antisocial personality disorder. We couldn't identify a statistically significant relationship between the family environment, the socioeconomic status, the presence of a concurrent psychiatric disorder, the consumption of toxic, the education level and juvenile deliquency. Conclusions: Because juvenile delinquency represents a real social problem is important to identify underlying traits or personality disorders in order to establish individualized and specific treatment plans.
Introduction: A personality disorder is a sustainable pattern of perception, cognition and relationship with the environment and one's person, pervasive, maladaptive and inflexible, affecting important areas of the individual's life functioning. Specialized studies in the field describe a high rate of heritability of the personality disorders and the importance of these parent personality disorders in the development of the child, including the development of psychopathology. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to assess the frequency and type of personality disorder in parents of children with psychiatric pathology and to identify a relationship between personality disorders in parents and internalizing/externalizing problems in children. Materials and methods: The study was conducted on two groups of 30 children and their parents, the first batch of children with internalizing problems and the second with children with externalizing problems, hospitalized in the Pediatric Psychiatry Clinic from Cluj-Napoca during April-September 2011. We used as instruments for assessment the psychiatric interview, SCID-II and CBCL. Data processing was done with SPSS version 17. Results: We revealed a relationship between the avoidant, obsessive-compulsive, schizoid and depressive personality traits of the parents and psychiatric disorders in children. Conclusions: Personality disorders are relatively common among parents of children with psychiatric diagnosis. For these reasons therapeutic relationship and plan for children should be made by taking into account the presence of the personality disorder of the parent.
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