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Differences Between Informants' Reports describing Emotional and Behavioural Problems in Community and Clinic‐referred Children: a Research Note
Author(s) -
Sawyer Michael Gifford,
Baghurst Peter,
Mathias Jane
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1992.tb00878.x
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , clinical psychology
This study compared the pattern of reports describing childhood emotional and behavioural problems amongst children in the community with the pattern of reports describing children referred to mental health clinics. Whereas children in the community reported more externalizing and internalizing problems than were reported by their parents, clinic‐referred children reported fewer externalizing but more internalizing problems than their parents. The results highlight potential limitations which may arise when reports describing the problems of clinic‐referred children air used as the criterion fur assessing the clinical significance of reports describing problems amongst children in the community.