WISC profiles in child psychiatric diagnosis: Sense or nonsense?

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1587-1594

  Rispens, Jan ^a   Swaab, Hanna ^a   Van Den Oord, Edwin J C G ^a   Cohen Kettenis, Peggy ^a   Van Engeland, Herman ^a   Van Yperen, Tom ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Netherlands Inst of Care and Welf   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Differential diagnosis; Intellectual assessment; WISC profiles

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; COGNITION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 0030730295     PISSN: 08908567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004583-199711000-00022     Document Type: Article

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