A practical guide to using ratings of depression and anxiety in child psychiatric practice

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 108-116

  Pavuluri, Mani ^a   Birmaher, Boris ^b  

^a Institute for Juvenile Research   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDLINE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VALIDATION PROCESS; ADOLESCENT; CLASSIFICATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; STANDARD;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS;

EID: 3142549049     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-004-0050-8     Document Type: Review

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