Research article summary (published 30 Aug 2009):

Exploring the clinical implications of the international CS reference data for children and adolescents (Meyer, Erdberg, & Shaffer, 2007).

Full Abstract

Meyer, Erdberg, and Shaffer (2007) pointed to significant variability across nonpatient samples of children and adolescents included in the Comprehensive System (CS; Exner, 2003) international project. Consequently, Meyer et al. stated that applying standard interpretive guidelines for children and adolescents would result in some inaccurate inferences about mental health and recommended inferring difficulties in a child's protocol in cases in which a score on a given variable deviates from the most extreme normative samples' mean. In this Comment, we explore this idea and provide the clinician with basic guidelines for interpreting young patients' protocols in which structural data are used jointly with developmental and contextual factors. We present these guidelines in relation to a case study.

Author information

Author/s: Tibon, Shira (S); Rothschild, Lily (L);

Affiliation: School of Behavioral Sciences, Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo, Israel. stibon(-atsign-)mta.ac.il

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Comment; Journal Article

Journal: Journal of personality assessment (J Pers Assess), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2009-Sep; vol 91 (issue 5) : pp 497-9

Dates: Created 2009/08/12; Completed 2009/11/02;

PMID: 19672756, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/2/2009, IMS Date: )

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Comments and Corrections

CommentOn: J Pers Assess. 2007;89 Suppl 1:S201-16. (PMID: 18039164)

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Adolescent Age Factors Child Humans Mental Disorders - diagnosis Mental Health Meta-Analysis as Topic

Personality Assessment - statistics & numerical data Psychometrics Questionnaires Reference Values Reproducibility of Results Research Design - standards Rorschach Test - statistics & numerical data

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