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Intelligence and Childhood Psychiatric Disorder
Author(s) -
RUTTER MICHAEL
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1964.tb00414.x
Subject(s) - psychology , psychiatry , referral , abnormality , population , clinical psychology , medicine , family medicine , environmental health
The literature on the relation between intelligence and psychiatric disorders of childhood is reviewed, and an analysis is given of the distribution of I.Q.s of children first attending the Maudsley Hospital Children's Department in 1955. The distribution of I.Q.s differed significantly from that of the general population, but the differences are believed to be artifacts of referral policy. Verbal performance discrepancies were no larger than those found in the general population. Abnormality of intelligence does not seem to be a factor of major importance in child psychiatric disorders, but is worthy of attention for other reasons.