Using Rating Scales in a Clinical Context

Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Fifth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 289-298

  Verhulst, Frank C ^a   Van Der Ende, Jan ^a  

^a SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Issues specific to rating scales for child psychopathology; Multicultural issues; Outcome evaluations; Rating scales or interviews; Treatment effect monitoring; Use of rating scales in clinical practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650827121     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444300895.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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