AN EVALUATION OF THE VALIDITY OF THE DIAGNOSTIC CATEGORY OF ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER

Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) replaced Hyperkinetic Reaction of Childhood as a category in DSM-III. This study evaluates the validity of the new terminology by determining whether clinical diagnoses of ADD could be predicted from scores on a number of widely used psychometric and behavioral instr...

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Published in:American journal of orthopsychiatry 1984-07, Vol.54 (3), p.398-414
Main Authors: Rubinstein, Robert A., Brown, Ronald T.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Achievement
Attention
Attention Deficit Disorder
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity - diagnosis
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child clinical studies
Child, Preschool
Clinical Psychology
Diagnosis
Female
Human
Humans
Impulsive Behavior - diagnosis
Male
Medical sciences
Mother-Child Relations
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychometrics
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Teaching
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Summary:Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) replaced Hyperkinetic Reaction of Childhood as a category in DSM-III. This study evaluates the validity of the new terminology by determining whether clinical diagnoses of ADD could be predicted from scores on a number of widely used psychometric and behavioral instruments. Results suggest that ADD is an inadequately specified category. Some implications of this finding are considered.
ISSN:0002-9432
1939-0025
DOI:10.1111/j.1939-0025.1984.tb01506.x