[Questioning disruptive disorder with emotional dysregulation]

Abstract

Disruptive Emotional Dysregulation Disorder (DEDD) responds to an increase in diagnoses of clastic crises, reactive depression and bipolarity in children and adolescents. Emerging in the 1990s, EDD has become an issue for practitioners, parents and teachers alike, and has become an integral part of the landscape of paediatric and child psychiatric disorders. Its diagnostic complexity is accentuated by criteria that include persistent and disproportionate outbursts of anger, often confused with other pathologies, especially as diagnostic tools are few and far between. Professionals in the field know little about EDD, preferring to diagnose more familiar disorders.

Keywords: anger; bipolarity; bipolarité; child psychiatry; colère; depression; disruptive disorder with emotional dysregulation; dépression; oppositional defiant disorder; pédopsychiatrie; trouble disruptif avec dysrégulation émotionnelle; trouble oppositionnel avec provocation.