Annual research review: Categories versus dimensions in the classification and conceptualisation of child and adolescent mental disorders - Implications of recent empirical study

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 469-489

  Coghill, David ^a   Sonuga Barke, Edmund J S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Assessment; classification; diagnosis; DSM; factor analysis; ICD; taxometrics

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MENTAL DISEASE; REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MENTAL DISORDERS;

EID: 84859733766     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: 14697610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2011.02511.x     Document Type: Review

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