Companion Instruments for Measuring Children's Competence and Parental Style

Assessment of Brain Function in Clinical Pediatric Research: Behavioral and Biological Strategies

“…The subsequent use of haloperidol as a specific pharmacological treatment, coupled with the emergence of more sophisticated laboratory techniques, resulted in renewed biological research on Tourette's syndrome. Catecholamine metabolism was further implicated in the etiology of the illness by exacerbations produced by dopaminergic agonists, such as dextroamphetamine (Feinberg and Carroll 1979). Another line of evidence for a neurological substrate was the high incidence (40 percent in our series) of patients with abnormal or borderline EEGs.…”

Cognitive and Emotional Functioning in Hypopituitary Short-statured Children

“…TED card responses were scored independently by the psychologist and social worker. Interrater reliabilities were assessed by use of the weighted kappa (Cohen 1968;Cicchetti 1976) and were acceptable for ratings of perception of 11 of 13 cards and for ratings of outcome on 8 of the 13 cards (.6 or better). Disagreements were discussed and resolved on all but one rating.…”

“…The results of research on psychological aspects of hypopituitarism have been inconsistent, although more so in descriptions of emotional than intellectual functioning. Based on previous work and our own research, we would First, some researchers report average (e.g., Pollitt and Money 1964;Drash, Greenberg, and Money 1968) and some report below average IQ scores (e.g., Shurka and Laron 1975). However, it ap-pears in all studies that the overall intellectual ability of hypopituitary children appears to be more dependent on socioeconomic status than on the condition of hypopitu-itarism (Steinhausen and Stahnke 1976).…”

Parenting and Child Behavioral Adjustment in Early Childhood: A Quantitative Genetic Approach to Studying Family Processes

“…The measure includes two subscales: negativity (16 items, ␣ ϭ .90) and positivity (15 items, ␣ ϭ .84). In an unpublished validation study of 151 British mothers, these child-specific PFQ negativity and positivity scales were substantially correlated, r (150 ) ϭ .4 to .7 range, with other measures of parental affect, including the warmth and negativity scales of the Parent Report (Dibble & Cohen, 1974).…”