Diagnostic accuracy of the Achenbach child behavior checklist for externalizing and internalizing disorders : towards an integrative categorical and dimensional approach to clinical diagnosis.

• Main Author: Seah, Suzanne Li Hwa.
• Other Authors: Ang Pei-Hui, Rebecca
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Applied psychology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/15632
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study assessed the diagnostic accuracy of Achenbach’s Child Behavior Checklist for clinician-diagnosed childhood externalizing and internalizing psychopathology, based on information from an archival dataset of 1,000 Singaporean children and adolescents, aged 4 to 18 years old. Results showed t...