Clinician-assigned and parent-report questionnaire-derived child psychiatric diagnoses: Correlates and consequences of disagreement

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 375-385

  Klein, Jesse B ^a   Lavigne, John V ^b   Seshadri, Roopa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child therapy; Children; Diagnosis; Emotional disturbance; Ethnicity; Gender; Interrater discrepancies; Medicaid; Mental health professionals; No shows; Parents; Premature termination; Service utilization; Working alliance

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSTHYMIA; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEDICAID; OPPOSITIONAL DEFIANT DISORDER; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX RATIO; URBAN POPULATION; CONFLICT; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; MENTAL DISORDERS; PARENT; RISK; SEX DIFFERENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; ODDS RATIO; PARENTS; PROFESSIONAL-FAMILY RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954795205     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: 19390025     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.2010.01041.x     Document Type: Article

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