Mental health evaluations of children typically include interviews with clinicians. However, little is known about the contributions that clinicians’ interviews can make to predicting the subsequent outcomes of children’s problems. To identify predictive relations between clinicians’ ratings from the Semistructured…
One often hears that kids’ behavior seems to be getting worse. Abundant publicity about the misdeeds of today’s young people certainly supports this impression. However, to determine whether the prevalence of problem behaviors is actually changing, it is necessary to…
A team of Dutch researchers tested the applicability of the CBCL and TRF to 1,041 6- to 18-year-olds attending nonresidential schools for children with ID in the educable range (IQ 60 to 80) or trainable range (IQ 30 to 60;…
Diagnostic systems such as DSM-IV typically combine aggressive behavior problems with rule-breaking behavior into a single diagnostic category of Conduct Disorder. However, empirically based studies have identified a syndrome of aggressive behavior (e.g., fighting, attacking people) and a separate syndrome…
A team of researchers and clinicians at the University of Pisa, Italy, compared outcomes for 29 6- to 10-year-olds who received an 11-week psychotherapy protocol and 29 comparison children who qualified for the protocol but were referred to community services…
A group of Dutch researchers tested the predictive value of parent, teacher, and clinician ratings of child psychopathology over a 3-year period (Ferdinand et al., 2003). Parent and teacher ratings were obtained with the CBCL and TRF. Clinician ratings were…
To test a school-based therapy intervention, McArdle et al. (2002) asked teachers to identify high-risk students in a high unemployment area of North Tyneside, England. The risk factors included scholastic under-performance, family problems, poor nourishment and care, impaired peer relationships,…
Children with mental retardation or chronic physical illness can be very challenging for families. To compare behavioral problems and family stresses associated with mental retardation, chronic illness, and the absence of both retardation and illness, a team of German researchers…
Led by Judy Dunn of the Institute of Psychiatry’s Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Center, a team of British researchers studied family drawings done by 180 5- to 7-year-olds (Dunn, O’Connor, & Levy, 2002). The children lived with a…
Although the mean age of childbearing is increasing in most western societies, teen births remain high and financial support for young mothers remains low in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States. To find out whether young motherhood was…
The DSM-IV criteria for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) are designed mainly for adults. Because several of the criteria are not appropriate for very young children, it has not been clear whether preschoolers manifest disorders that correspond to the DSM-IV diagnostic…