Behavioral and socio-emotional functioning in children with selective mutism: A comparison with anxious and typically developing children across multiple informants

Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1057-1067

  Carbone, Diana ^a   Schmidt, Louis A ^a   Cunningham, Charles C ^a   McHolm, Angela E ^a   Edison, Shannon ^a   St Pierre, Jeff ^b   Boyle, Michael H ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Ministry of Children and Youth Services Child and Parent Resource Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

Children; Internalizing problems; Mixed anxiety; Parent and teacher reports; Selective mutism; Social anxiety; Social skills

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MUTISM; PHOBIA; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTISM; PHOBIC DISORDERS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 78649319283     PISSN: 00910627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10802-010-9425-y     Document Type: Article

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