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Correlates of Psychopathology and Intelligence in Children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Author(s) -
Steinhausen H.C.,
Willms Judith,
Spohr HansLudwig
Publication year - 1994
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.1469-7610.1994.tb01165.x
Subject(s) - psychopathology , psychology , fetal alcohol syndrome , intelligence quotient , borderline intellectual functioning , cohort , clinical psychology , developmental psychopathology , child psychopathology , wechsler adult intelligence scale , developmental psychology , psychiatry , alcohol , cognition , medicine , biochemistry , chemistry
After documenting the wide range of psychopathology and impairment of intellectual functioning in earlier contributions, the present report from long‐term observations of an extended cohort of children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) deals with correlates of psychopathology and intelligence in these children. At preschool age, severity of morphological damage, the type of milieu, sex and IQ were significant predictors of psychopathology. In another subgroup of school‐aged children, these associations were less strong: only severity of morphological damage and IQ still correlated to some extent significantly with psychopathology. Intelligence was significantly impaired in those children with severe morphological damage who were raised in institutions.