Interviewing Children: Development of the Dutch version of the Semistructured Clinical Interview for Children and Adolescents (SCICA) and testing of the psychometric properties

Psychopathology in children and adolescents can be an enormous source of concem because of interference with the developmental process in the growing child. Understanding of the nature and causes of child and adolescent psychiatric disorder, accompanied by increases in therapeutic efficacy, can help to enlarge the power of effective prevention and intervention (Rutter, 1988). In endeavors to expand knowledge of the nature and causes of emotional and behavioral disorders in children and adolescents the diagnostic process plays an important role. The diagnostic process comprises two essential el... Mehr ...