“…Studies using the first approach demonstrated that parental perceptions of child adjustment do, in fact, discriminate clinic from nonclinic children. Furthermore, independent observations demonstrated that clinic-referred children actually display more non-compliant and deviant behavior than do nonclinic children (Doleys, Cartelli, & Doster, 1976; Forehand, King, Peed, & Yoder, 1975; Griest, Forehand, Wells, & McMahon, 1980; Lobitz & Johnson, 1975; Patterson, 1982). Although these data suggest that parents are reasonably accurate in their perceptions, the results of some of these studies, as well as those of other investigations (Delfini, Bernal, & Rosen, 1976; Rickard, Forehand, Wells, Griest, & McMahon, 1981), indicate a considerable overlap in the behavior of clinic and nonclinic children.…”