Abstract
Risk factors for Behavioral, Anxiety, Depressive and Elimination Disorders in Children and Adolescents. This study seeks to identify the risk factors differentially related to behavioral, anxiety, depression and elimination disorders, in a clinical sample of 362 children and adolescents, aged from 6 to 17 years. The following factors were studied: socio-demographic variables, psychosocial stressors in family context, academic failure, intelligence, early factors, medical history and parental psychopathology. Results showed distinct risk profiles for each diagnostic category: having a young father, being extremely concerned about a beloved person's death, family quarreling and fighting, having been physically abused, repeating a grade at school and early behavioral problems were specifically associated with behavioral disorders; mother's age, delivery problems and fear of physical abuse were related to those of anxiety; increasing age, being upset about family, family drinking problems, having frequent illnesses and mother's psychopathological status were the best predictors for depressive disorders; and younger age, being male and delayed developmental milestones predicted those of elimination.
