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School difficulties and learning disorders in adolescence can become significant risk factors for psychopathology. This study investigates emotional and cognitive patterns in adolescents with school difficulties. Four clinical conditions that can determine adolescence-onset learning disorders are outlined. These are adolescent turmoil, intellectual inhibition, delay in reasoning development, and metacognitive dysfunctioning. Cognitive, emotional and behavioral features of these conditions are discussed in terms of diagnostic and therapeutic implications.
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Masi, G., Brovedani, P. & Poli, P. School Failure in Early Adolescence: The Psychopathological Risk. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 29, 127–140 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025036032678
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