Social problem solving, conduct problems, and callous-unemotional traits in children

Child Psychiatry and Human Development

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 293-305

  Waschbusch, Daniel A ^a,c   Walsh, Trudi M ^b   Andrade, Brendan F ^c   King, Sara ^c   Carrey, Normand J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b IWK HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Callous unemotional traits; Conduct disorder; Oppositional defiant disorder; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONDUCT DISORDER; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER; PEER GROUP; PROBLEM SOLVING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL PROBLEM;

AFFECT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ATTENTION DEFICIT AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; CONDUCT DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34247107648     PISSN: 0009398X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10578-006-0033-6     Document Type: Article

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