Rating scale systems for assessing psychopathology: The achenbach system of empirically based assessment (ASEBA) and the behavior assessment system for children-2 (BASC-2)

Assessing Childhood Psychopathology and Developmental Disabilities

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 117-149

  Rescorla, Leslie A ^a  

^a BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-09528-8_5     Document Type: Chapter

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