German Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED): Reliability, Validity, and Cross-Informant Agreement in a Clinical Sample

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Weitkamp, Katharina ^a   Romer, Georg ^a   Rosenthal, Sandra ^a   Wiegand Grefe, Silke ^a   Daniels, Judith ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCREEN FOR CHILD ANXIETY RELATED EMOTIONAL DISORDERS; SELF REPORT; VALIDITY;

EID: 77954074354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17532000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1753-2000-4-19     Document Type: Article

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