Mental Health Screening of Preschool Children: Validity and Reliability of ABLE

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 402-418

  Barbarin, Oscar A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

assessment; early childhood; mental health; pre school children; screening

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL AREA; SCREENING TEST; SPECIAL EDUCATION; URBAN AREA; VALIDATION STUDY;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 34548850866     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0002-9432.77.3.402     Document Type: Article

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