Multicultural understanding of child and adolescent psychopathology : implications for mental health assessment /
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| Language: | English |
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New York London:
The Guilford Press,
2007
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Why should we do multicultural research on childrenʹs problem? 2 The empirically based "Bottom-up" approach to psychopathology, 3 The diagnostically based "Top-down" approach to psychopathology, 4 Multicultural findings on scores obtained with empirically based assessment instruments, 5 Multicultural findings on correlates of empirically based scale scores, 6 Multicultural findings on patterns of problems in emprirically based assessment instruments, 7 Multicultural findings on the prevalence of diagnostically based disorders, 8 Multicultural findings on correlates and comorbidity of diagnostically based disorders, 9 Comparisons of empirically based and diagnostically based findings, 10 Meeting challenges posed by multicultural research on childrenʹs problems, 11 Contributions of multicultural research to understanding, assessing, preventing, and treating child psychopathology.