Screening for Behavioral Disorders With the Dyadic Parent-Child Interaction Coding System: Sensitivity,Specificity, and Core Discriminative Components |
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| Authors: | Åse Bjørseth Cheryl McNeil Lars Wichstrøm |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Child and Adolescent Mental Health Clinic, Levanger, Norway;2. Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway;3. Department of Psychology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA;4. Department of Psychology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway |
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| Abstract: | We assessed the ability of the Dyadic Parent-Child Coding System to discriminate between Norwegian children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder and/or Conduct Disorder (n = 36) and community controls with no diagnosis (n = 122). All children were diagnosed by the Preschool Age Psychiatric Assessment. Results showed that a composite score of three negative parent codes—Negative Talk, Indirect Commands with No Opportunity for Compliance, and Direct Command with Compliance—as well as one child code, Command, evidenced excellent screening efficiency. Results are discussed in light of possible cultural differences in parent-child interaction and revisions of the coding system. |
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| Keywords: | Conduct Disorder observational instruments Oppositional Defiant Disorder parent-child interaction parenting |
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