Utility of prior psychological consultation, parent and teacher ratings in predicting clinician diagnosed ADHD and ODD/CD in children and adolescents.

The objective of this study is to improve the relevance of previous studies by discriminating ADHD and ODD/CD from others (normal variant and other externalizing behavior), and also investigating the relationship between prior psychological consultation with clinician diagnosis. Parents and teachers...

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Main Author: Artella Egtheasilva.
Other Authors: Ang Pei-Hui, Rebecca
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: 2009
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-156652019-12-10T10:58:28Z Utility of prior psychological consultation, parent and teacher ratings in predicting clinician diagnosed ADHD and ODD/CD in children and adolescents. Artella Egtheasilva. Ang Pei-Hui, Rebecca School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Psychology::Applied psychology The objective of this study is to improve the relevance of previous studies by discriminating ADHD and ODD/CD from others (normal variant and other externalizing behavior), and also investigating the relationship between prior psychological consultation with clinician diagnosis. Parents and teachers were asked to fill in CBCL and TRF as the predictors of clinician diagnosis. CGC parents form was used to obtain previous consultation history. The attention scale from CBCL and TRF were found to be effective in discriminating ADHD, while only delinquent scale from CBCL found significantly predict ODD/CD. Therefore, the relevant CBCL and TRF scales were found to be effective measures to discriminate ADHD and ODD/CD diagnosis respectively. Prior mental health consultation was not related to clinician diagnosis. Bachelor of Arts 2009-05-14T01:33:16Z 2009-05-14T01:33:16Z 2009 2009 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/15665 en Nanyang Technological University 38 p. application/pdf
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Artella Egtheasilva.
Utility of prior psychological consultation, parent and teacher ratings in predicting clinician diagnosed ADHD and ODD/CD in children and adolescents.
description The objective of this study is to improve the relevance of previous studies by discriminating ADHD and ODD/CD from others (normal variant and other externalizing behavior), and also investigating the relationship between prior psychological consultation with clinician diagnosis. Parents and teachers were asked to fill in CBCL and TRF as the predictors of clinician diagnosis. CGC parents form was used to obtain previous consultation history. The attention scale from CBCL and TRF were found to be effective in discriminating ADHD, while only delinquent scale from CBCL found significantly predict ODD/CD. Therefore, the relevant CBCL and TRF scales were found to be effective measures to discriminate ADHD and ODD/CD diagnosis respectively. Prior mental health consultation was not related to clinician diagnosis.
author2 Ang Pei-Hui, Rebecca
author_facet Ang Pei-Hui, Rebecca
Artella Egtheasilva.
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author Artella Egtheasilva.
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title Utility of prior psychological consultation, parent and teacher ratings in predicting clinician diagnosed ADHD and ODD/CD in children and adolescents.
title_short Utility of prior psychological consultation, parent and teacher ratings in predicting clinician diagnosed ADHD and ODD/CD in children and adolescents.
title_full Utility of prior psychological consultation, parent and teacher ratings in predicting clinician diagnosed ADHD and ODD/CD in children and adolescents.
title_fullStr Utility of prior psychological consultation, parent and teacher ratings in predicting clinician diagnosed ADHD and ODD/CD in children and adolescents.
title_full_unstemmed Utility of prior psychological consultation, parent and teacher ratings in predicting clinician diagnosed ADHD and ODD/CD in children and adolescents.
title_sort utility of prior psychological consultation, parent and teacher ratings in predicting clinician diagnosed adhd and odd/cd in children and adolescents.
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