Assessing Psychiatric Disorders in Children: Discrepancies Between Mothers' and Children's Reports

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 1987, Pages 747-753

  Weissman, Myrna M ^a,b   Wickramaratne, Priya ^a   Warner, Virginia ^a   John, Karen ^a   Prusoff, Brigitte A ^a   Merikangas, Kathleen R ^a   Gammon, G Davis ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Departments of Psychiatry Epidemiology Yale University School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MANUALS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0023280543     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1987.01800200075011     Document Type: Article

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