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Florence Valade; Marie-Julie Béliveau; Chantale Breault; Fannie Labelle – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
This study examines the reliability of parental concern (PC) as an indicator for mental disorders in preschool-aged children in a clinical setting, aiming to establish sensitivity and specificity, evaluate PC's predictive value for specific diagnoses, and explore the influence of child age on predictions. The sample comprises 574 children referred…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Identification, Psychiatry, Clinical Diagnosis
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Pandolfi, Vincent; Magyar, Caroline I.; Dill, Charles A. – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2012
Individuals with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often present with co-occurring emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). The Child Behavior Checklist 6-18 (CBCL; Achenbach & Rescorla, 2001) is an EBD measure that contains several norm-referenced scales derived through factor analysis of data from the general pediatric population. The…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Autism, Emotional Disturbances, Validity
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Danov, Stacy E.; Tervo, Raymond; Meyers, Stephanie; Symons, Frank J. – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2012
The atypical antipsychotic medication aripiprazole was evaluated using a randomized AB multiple baseline, double-blind, placebo-controlled design for the treatment of severe problem behavior with 4 children with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Functional analysis (FA) was conducted concurrent with the medication evaluation to…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Rating Scales, Reinforcement, Drug Therapy
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Lane, Kathleen Lynne; Kalberg, Jemma Robertson; Menzies, Holly; Bruhn, Allison; Eisner, Shanna; Crnobori, Mary – Remedial and Special Education, 2011
In this article the authors provide practitioners and researchers with three illustrations of how to use systematic screening tools within the context of three-tiered models of support to (a) measure the overall level of risk present in a school over time and (b) identify students who may require more targeted supports in the form of secondary and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Prevention, Program Implementation, Data Analysis
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Egger, Helen Link; Erkanli, Alaattin; Keeler, Gordon; Potts, Edward; Walter, Barbara Keith; Angold, Adrian – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2006
Objective: To examine the test-retest reliability of a new interviewer-based psychiatric diagnostic measure (the Preschool Age Psychiatric Assessment) for use with parents of preschoolers 2 to 5 years old. Method: A total of 1,073 parents of children attending a large pediatric clinic completed the Child Behavior Checklist 1 1/2-5. For 18 months,…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Check Lists, Clinics, Preschool Children
Baker, David B. – 1989
A preliminary study examined the interrater reliability, factor structure, and convergent validity of the Haak Sentence Completion (in which the respondent is given a sentence stem and asked to provide the remainder of the sentence) using a three-point scoring system. The subjects were 100 boys ranging in age from 6 to 11 years who were randomly…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Cloze Procedure, Elementary Education, Emotional Disturbances
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Hommersen, Paul; Murray, Candice; Ohan, Jeneva L.; Johnston, Charlotte – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2006
In this article, the authors report the psychometric properties of a parent-completed rating scale based on the criteria for oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) in the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fourth Edition-Text Revision" ("DSM-IV-TR"). Mothers of 294 boys and 48 girls with…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Child Behavior, Check Lists, Behavior Problems
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Yeo, Lay See; Wong, Margaret; Gerken, Kathryn; Ansley, Timothy – Child Care in Practice, 2005
This study examined the effectiveness of a cognitive-behavioural therapy programme for 13 children treated for severe emotional or behaviour disorders in a hospital setting. Data were obtained from multiple informants at pre-treatment, post-treatment, and three months follow-up. Results indicated statistically significant improvement in the…
Descriptors: Hospitals, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Adjustment (to Environment), Therapy