Self-regulation and internal resources in school-aged children with ADHD symptomatology: An investigation using the Rorschach inkblot method

Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 259-282

  Meehan, Kevin B ^a,b   Ueng McHale, Jasmine Y ^a   Reynoso, Joseph S ^a,c   Harris, Benjamin H ^a,d   Wolfson, Virginia M ^a   Gomes, Hilary ^a   Tuber, Steven B ^a,e  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Long Island University (Brooklyn Campus)   (United States)

^c Program on US Russia Relations at Columbia s Harriman Institute   (United States)

^d Department of Medicine   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTOREGULATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PERSONALITY TEST; SCHOOL CHILD; STRESS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; ANXIETY DISORDER; CONDUCT DISORDER; DEPRESSION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CONTROL;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION DEFICIT AND DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; CONDUCT DISORDER; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; RORSCHACH TEST; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL;

EID: 61749089024     PISSN: 00259284     EISSN: 00259284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/bumc.2008.72.4.259     Document Type: Article

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