Clinically Relevant Measures of Children's Theory of Mind and Knowledge about Thinking: Non-Standard and Advanced Measures

Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 204-216

  Sprung, Manuel ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical conditions; Cognitive symptoms; Measurement; Meta cognition; Social cognition; Theory of Mind

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL STUDY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; DEPRESSION; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MOOD DISORDER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOPATHY; SOCIAL DISABILITY; SOCIAL PROBLEM; THINKING;

EID: 77958564956     PISSN: 1475357X     EISSN: 14753588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-3588.2010.00568.x     Document Type: Article

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