The lay concept of conduct disorder: Do nonprofessionals use syndromal symptoms or internal dysfunction to distinguish disorder from delinquency?

Canadian Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 210-217

  Wakefield, Jerome C ^a,f   Kirk, Stuart A ^b   Pottick, Kathleen J ^c   Hsieh, Derek K ^d   Tian, Xin ^e  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health   (United States)

^e NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Child psychiatry; Conduct disorder; Diagnosis; Diagnosis and classification; False positives; Harmful dysfunction; Mental disorder; Models or theories of psychiatry; Philosophy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONDUCT DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JUVENILE; MENTAL DISEASE; NURSE; SOCIAL WORKER; VIGNETTE;

EID: 33645553119     PISSN: 07067437     EISSN: 14970015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/070674370605100402     Document Type: Article

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