Multicultural understanding of child and adolescent psychopathology : implications for mental health assessment - Achenbach, Thomas M., 1940-; Rescorla, Leslie (New York : Guilford Press, 2007)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-308) and indexes.
Keywords: Child psychopathology -- Cross-cultural studies; Adolescent psychopathology -- Cross-cultural studies; Mental Disorders; Adolescent; Child; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Psychopathology -- methods