It is unknown if the DSM-oriented (DSM) scales of the Youth Self-Report (YSR) are useful to determine what kind of narrowly-focused psychiatric assessment is needed, and how well these scales serve as a triage tool in real-world forensic settings. To address this knowledge gap, the YSR and diagnostic interviews were administered to 405 detained boys as part of a clinical protocol. Continuous DS...

The majority of studies on parent-child discrepancies in the assessment of adolescent emotional and behavioral problems have been conducted in Western countries. It is believed that parent-adolescent agreement would be higher in societies with a strong culture of familism. We examined whether parent-adolescent discrepancies in the rating of adolescent emotional and behavioral problems are relat...

BACKGROUND Clinician-rated measures are used extensively in child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). The Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Children and Adolescents (HoNOSCA) is a short clinician-rated measure developed for ordinary clinical practice, with increasing use internationally. Several studies have investigated its psychometric properties, but there are few data on it...

The study investigated continuity, comorbidity and longitudinal associations between depression Beck depression inventory (RBDI) and antisocial behaviour Youth self-report (YSR) in middle adolescence. Data were used from a community sample of 2070 adolescents who participated in a 2-year prospective follow-up study. The results indicate that both depression and antisocial behaviour had consider...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association of unresolved and unclassifiable attachment with dissociative symptomatology in a sample of 133 adolescents in psychiatric treatment. METHOD The study compared 69 adolescents who were unresolved and unclassifiable with 64 adolescents who were not unresolved and unclassifiable. Attachment organization was assessed using the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI)....

This study aimed to assess the prevalence of war experiences and the use of specific cognitive emotion regulation strategies in response to these experiences among 294 formerly abducted adolescents at three rehabilitation centres in Uganda. Cognitive strategies were measured by Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ). Symptoms of psychopathology were measured by the Impact of Events S...

Growing consumer demand for organic food and awareness of the negative effects synthetic chemicals in chain have made agriculture an attractive alternative to conventional method farming, which relies solely on chemicals. The present study entitled “A sourcing cereals pulses (paddy, green gram red gram) Telangana Andhra Pradesh B2B segment” was carried out Telangana. YSR Kadapa Srikakulam distr...