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Anxiety Disorders/diagnosis , Depressive Disorder/diagnosis , Psychological Tests , Adolescent , Child , Female , Hospitals, Psychiatric , Humans , Male , Manuals as Topic , PsychometricsABSTRACT
The present study examined the relationship between anxiety and depression in children in the context of proposed adult models. The results support the qualitative distinction between anxious and depressed patient groups on subsets of rating scale measures and clinical variables. In contrast to anxious children who were younger, (day patients) had been ill for longer than one year, presented with behavioral problems, and were low on observer ratings of depressive symptoms; depressed children were older, (inpatients) had been ill for less than one year, presented with emotional problems and were high on observer ratings of both anxious and depressive symptoms. The finding that the older depressed children were concurrently anxious while the younger anxious children were not concurrently depressed is discussed from the viewpoint of a hypothesized temporal sequence between anxiety and depression. The implication of this and other related findings are discussed in regard to their importance for differential diagnosis and prognosis.
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Anxiety Disorders/diagnosis , Depressive Disorder/diagnosis , Psychiatric Status Rating Scales , Adolescent , Age Factors , Anxiety Disorders/psychology , Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale , Child , Child Behavior , Chronic Disease , Depressive Disorder/psychology , Diagnosis, Differential , Female , Humans , Male , Manifest Anxiety Scale , PrognosisABSTRACT
The authors look at the culturally deprived child in terms of his educational and social needs. They emphasize the important role that the school must play. School administrators and teachers must become more sensitive to the role that school plays in a child becoming "turned off" to school. Teachers and administrators, students, and parents must become involved in a cooperative venture to improve the situation faced by the culturally deprived child.
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Cultural Deprivation , Education, Special , Intellectual Disability/prevention & control , Adolescent , Child , Child Rearing , Curriculum , Female , Humans , Intelligence Tests , Language Development , Male , Parents/education , Social Adjustment , Teaching/methodsABSTRACT
The MMPI profiles of forty suicidal and forty non-suicidal male and female depressed patients, matched for age, were compared. Significant differences between MMPI scale T scores which showed some sex specificity were found between the suicidal and non-suicidal depressives. These results replicate previous findings. However neither individual scale T scores, derived discriminant functions, nor actuarial or cluster analysis-derived MMPI profiles could completely discriminate between suicidal and non-suicidal depressed inpatients of either sex. The relevance and implications of these findings to the ascertainment of suicidal risk are discussed.
