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The present study compared parent and teacher evaluations of behavioral problems in a sample of school-age child psychiatric inpatients on admission and at 5-month follow-up. Both parents and teachers viewed changes in children's emotional/behavioral problems over the course of the follow-up period rather similarly. In general, parents and teachers viewed children's behavior as significantly improved relative to pretreatment.
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Sourander, A., Helenius, H. & Piha, J. Parent and teacher reports of problem behaviors in child psychiatric inpatients: Cross-informant correlations on admission and at 5-month follow-up. Child Psych Hum Dev 26, 85–95 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02353233
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