Multicultural understanding of child and adolescent psychopathology : implications for mental health assessment /

Achenbach, Thomas M., 1940-,

Multicultural understanding of child and adolescent psychopathology : implications for mental health assessment / [print] Thomas M. Achenbach, Leslie A. Rescorla. - New York : Guilford Press, (c)2007. - x, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.



Why should we do multicultural research on children's problems? -- The empirically based "bottom-up" approach to psychopathology -- The diagnostically based "top-down" approach to psychopathology -- Multicultural findings on scores obtained with empirically based assessment instruments -- Multicultural findings on correlates of empirically based scale scores -- Multicultural findings on patterns of problems in empirically based assessment instruments -- Multicultural findings on the prevalence of diagnostically based disorders -- Multicultural findings on correlates and comorbidity of diagnostically based disorders -- Comparisons of empirically based and diagnostically based findings -- Meeting challenges posed by multicultural research on children's problems -- Contributions of multicultural research to understanding, assessing, preventing, and treating child psychopathology.



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Child psychopathology--Cross-cultural studies.
Adolescent psychopathology--Cross-cultural studies.

RJ499.R431.M858 2007 RJ499