Erschienen in:
11.11.2019 | Editorial
Affective dysregulation: a transdiagnostic research concept between ADHD, aggressive behavior conditions and borderline personality traits
verfasst von:
Robert Waltereit, Franziska Giller, Stefan Ehrlich, Veit Roessner
Erschienen in:
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
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Ausgabe 12/2019
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In the last months, the German drama film “System Crasher” (German “Systemsprenger”) by Nora Fingscheidt was one of the most controversial and broadly discussed motion pictures being released and presented at several film festivals. It is about the troubled 9-year-old girl, Benni, defying the child welfare system with one single goal: to be back at home with her mother. But her mother is scared of her own daughter. Benni is “out-of-control”, showing frequent and severe temper outbursts comprising violent- and offending attacks to other people as well as full-throated screams and yelling. Nonetheless, this nimble-witted young bundle of energy has a different side: she is very needy and vulnerable. But, due to her inappropriate- and antisocial behavioral-tendencies, the child welfare system is unable to find a placement for her, and she is ‘falling out of the system’. Fortunately, not only in Germany, the film has launched a broad public discussion about this group of children and adolescents at the intersection of child and adolescent psychiatry and child/youth welfare system. …