Reliability of childhood mental disorder: Diagnoses by Japanese psychologists

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 57-61

  Hasui, Chieko ^a,c   Sugiura, Tomoko ^a   Tanaka, Eriko ^a   Sakamoto, Shinji ^a   Sugawara, Masumi ^a   Kitamura, Toshinori ^a   Aoki, Yuko ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b Tsurumidai Hospital   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Childhood mental disorder; Diagnosis; Psychologist; Reliability

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DEPRESSION; ENURESIS; HUMAN; JAPAN; MENTAL DISEASE; OBSESSION; PSYCHOLOGIST; RELIABILITY; SEPARATION ANXIETY; SKILL;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EDUCATION, PROFESSIONAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0032942139     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1819.1999.00471.x     Document Type: Article

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