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

Achenbach, Thomas M. 1940- (Author). Rescorla, Leslie. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 1593853483 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781593853488 (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
x, 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Guilford Press, c2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-308) and indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

Ch. 1. Why should we do multicultural research on children's problems? -- Ch. 2. The empirically based "bottom-up" approach to psychopathology -- Ch. 3. The diagnostically based "top-down" approach to psychopathology -- Ch. 4. Multicultural findings on scores obtained with empirically based assessment instruments -- Ch. 5. Multicultural findings on correlates of empirically based scale scores -- Ch. 6. Multicultural findings on patterns of problems in empirically based assessment instruments -- Ch. 7. Multicultural findings on the prevalence of diagnostically based disorders -- Ch.8. Multicultural findings on correlates and comorbidity of diagnostically based disorders -- Ch.9. Comparisons of empirically based and diagnostically based findings -- Ch. 10. Meeting challenges posed by multicultural research on children's problems -- Ch. 11. Contributions of multicultural research to understanding, assessing, preventing, and treating child psychopathology.