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Screening for Childhood Psychopathology in the Community Using the Child Behavior Checklist

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Abstract

One of the uses of the Child Behavior Checklist is as a screening instrument for childhood psychopathology in two-phase designs. The present report involves a two-phase epidemiological survey conducted in Puerto Rico in which the CBCL was used as a screening instrument during the first stage, and children were evaluated clinically during the second stage. The data indicate that in using the CBCL for screening for psychopathology in children, parent information is most informative, particularly for children in the adolescent age group. Nevertheless, the data also reinforce the need to obtain teacher information with the Teacher Report Form to enhance screening sensitivity. In this population, the data obtained with the Youth Self-Report were found to be of limited usefulness for screening purposes. J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry, 1991, 30, 1:116–123.

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    Parents endorsing symptoms for their children in the clinical range of any internalizing subscale of the CBCL were invited to participate. This method has been used successfully in recruiting youth from the community with psychiatric disorders (e.g., Bird, Gould, Rubio-Stipec, Staghezza, & Canino, 1991). Parents of children referred by mental health clinics were also administered the CBCL and only those who scored in the clinical range of any internalizing subscale were invited to participate.

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The data contained in this paper were presented in poster format at the thirty-sixth annual meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in New York.

This research is supported by grant MH-38821 from the National Institute of Mental Health.

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