Quantifying Clinical Judgment in the Assessment of Adolescent Psychopathology: Reliability, Validity, and Factor Structure of the Child Behavior Checklist for Clinician Report

Journal of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 65-85

  Dutra, Lissa ^a   Campbell, Laura ^a   Westen, Drew ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CBCL; Clinical prediction; Clinician report

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FAMILY HISTORY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENTAL DISEASE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOLOGIST; PSYCHOMETRY; RELIABILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PARENTING; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0347517832     PISSN: 00219762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jclp.10234     Document Type: Article

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