Author(s)

Marzanna Farnicka¹, Miguel Bettin²

¹University of Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra, Poland.
²Científico del Instituto de Estudios Psicobiosociales y de Intervención en Violencias, Bogotá, Columbia.

In order to provide multilevel potential explanations for the co-occurrence of addiction disorders and their developmental complex influence, developmental psychopathology has been considered to be an integrative perspective in re-search and in clinical treatment. This paper examined developmental psycho-pathology approach in addiction diagnosis and treatment. There is an historical and informative perspective that discusses two issues. The former is connected with the antecedents of addiction diagnosis. The latter parts of the article refer to the principles of developmental psychopathology and studies carried out in this field. In conclusion, the value of this perspective in diagnostic deci-sion-making processes in adolescents is also discussed.

Addiction, Context, Youth Development, Diagnosis

Farnicka, M. and Bettin, M. (2019) Developmental Psychopathology Approach in Addiction Diagnosis in Adolescence. Psychology, 10, 710-721. doi: 10.4236/psych.2019.105046.