A Children's Global Assessment Scale (CGAS)

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 1983, Pages 1228-1231

  Shaffer, David ^a   Gould, Madelyn S ^a   Brasic, James ^a   Fisher, Prudence ^a   Aluwahlia, Satwant ^a   Bird, Hector ^b  

^a Department of Child Psychiatry College of Physicians and Surgeons Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL TEST;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; AMBULATORY CARE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PARENTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0020624154     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1983.01790100074010     Document Type: Article

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