[A comparison of dysfunctional attitudes and coping strategies in Hungarian adolescents suffering from certain child psychiatric disorders].

Introduction: The evaluation of dysfunctional attitudes and coping mechanisms to identify specific characteristics of certain psychiatric diseases is an important research objective also in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry.

Method: Authors compared dysfunctional attitudes and coping strategies of various monodiagnostic groups recruited from a sample of 158 adolescent outpatients (54 males, mean age 16.0 SD 1.