Clinical validity of the Me and My School questionnaire: A self-report mental health measure for children and adolescents

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Patalay, Praveetha ^a,b   Deighton, Jessica ^b   Fonagy, Peter ^a   Vostanis, Panos ^c   Wolpert, Miranda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ANNA FREUD CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Me and my school; Mental health; Screening; Self report; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BEHAVIORAL DIFFICULTIES SCALE; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMMUNITY SAMPLE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; EMOTIONAL DIFFICULTIES SCALE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; ICD-10; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; ME AND MY SCHOOL QUESTIONNAIRE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NORMAL HUMAN; PARENT STRENGTHS AND DIFFICULTIES QUESTIONNAIRE; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; STRENGTHS AND DIFFICULTIES QUESTIONNAIRE SELF REPORT; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84903146923     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17532000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1753-2000-8-17     Document Type: Article

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