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DMDD should be diagnosable in preschool‐age children: Researchers
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the brown university child and adolescent behavior letter
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7575
pISSN - 1058-1073
DOI - 10.1002/cbl.30294
Subject(s) - irritability , anger , psychology , frustration , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , social psychology , anxiety
Frustration is a normal response to blocked attainment of a goal, but irritability is a tendency to respond to frustration with increased anger. Mild temper tantrums — normal manifestations of anger in early childhood — are different from pervasive and dysregulated temper tantrums. But the connection between such early behavior and later disorders has been difficult to make. And while irritability is representing in a number of DSM‐5 diagnoses, the manual has no specific developmental definition of irritability.

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