Diagnostic Consistency in Assessing Conduct Disorder: An Experiment on the Effect of Social Context

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-55

  Kirk, Stuart A ^a   Hsieh, Derek K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONDUCT DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PSYCHIATRIST; RELIABILITY;

ADULT; CHILD; CONDUCT DISORDER; DATA COLLECTION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0842312385     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0002-9432.74.1.43     Document Type: Article

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