Life events and depression in children with pervasive developmental disorders
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Life events and depression in children with pervasive developmental disorders.
To determine the role of life events in the occurrence of depression in children with pervasive developmental disorders (PDD), we compared 11 patients (DSM-III-R; 9 male; 2 female; M age: 11.0 years; M full-scale IQ: 75.3) with PDD and depression, with an age- and sex-matched control group of patients with PDD without depression (DSM-III-R; 9 male; 2 female; M age: 9.8 years; M full-scale IQ: 6...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0162-3257,1573-3432
DOI: 10.1007/bf02178296