Problem behavior in international adoptees: III. Diagnosis of child psychiatric disorders.

This study is a clinical extension of two previous epidemiological studies on problem behavior in international adoptees. In depth pictures were obtained by clinical interviews of 132 14-year-old international adoptees and their parents. Children were selected on the basis of previously obtained Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) scores.

The Child Assessment Schedule: parent-child agreement and validity measures.

Parents' and children's reports of behavioural-emotional problems in 116 children assessed by the Child Assessment Schedule developed by Hodges et al. (Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 21, 468-473, 1982) and the Graham & Rutter Parent Interview (British Journal of Psychiatry, 114, 581-592, 1968), both semi-structured interviews, revealed relatively high agreement compared with studies using highly structured assessment procedures. The majority of disagreements could be attributed to higher parents' scores.

Mental health in Dutch children: (II). The prevalence of psychiatric disorder and relationship between measures.

This study concerns the second, more clinically oriented, part of our epidemiological project. The prevalence of child psychiatric disorders in random samples of 8- and 11-year-old children is assessed by using standardized parent- and child-interviews. The relationships between different measures of child psychopathology are determined.