MEASUREMENT OF CHILD PSYCHOPATHOLOGY--A WAY FORWARD

该奖项将使一些试点项目得以开发，这些项目将 提供重要的研究经验，具有相当大的科学价值 他们自己的权利，并将作为方案的基础 这项工作的发展。具体的研究目标，在 研究计划可概括如下： (A)初步目标是研究电脑在精神科的应用 评估。这将通过两项相关的直接研究来实现 青少年的电脑面试。这些研究中的第一项将 评估是否如所建议的那样，受试者报告的频率更高， 更多细节，自杀念头和行为的插曲 而不是对一个人。第二项测试将考察青少年是否能够完成 复杂的结构化面试，如光盘，而不需要 人类采访者。 (B)第二个目标是制定更准确和有效的一般性意见 青少年精神障碍筛查问卷(ASQ)。 这将使用具有高预测性的症状的加权评分 它具有重要价值，并将纳入对社会损害的评估。 (C)研究计划的最后组成部分是审查重测 有系统的范例，特别是衰减现象，以及 以一种前瞻性的实验方式发现可以做什么 提高精神病学措施的可靠性。

The award will enable a number of pilot projects to be developed that will provide vital research experience, have considerable scientific merit in their own right, and will serve as a basis for the programmatic development of this work. The specific research goals, addressed within the Research Plan, can be summarized as follows: (a) The initial goal is to study the use of computers in psychiatric assessment. This will be achieved by two related studies of direct computer interviewing of adolescents. The first of these studies will assess if, as has been suggested, subjects report more frequently and in greater detail, episodes of suicidal ideation and behavior to a computer than to a person. The second will examine if adolescents can complete a complex structured interview, such as the DISC, without the need for a human interviewer. (b) The second goal is to produce a more accurate and valid general screening questionnaire (the ASQ) for psychiatric disorder in adolescents. This would employ weighted scoring of symptoms having high predictive value and would also integrate an assessment of social impairment. (c) The final component of the research plan is to examine the test-retest paradigm systematically, in particular the phenomenon of attenuation, and discover in a prospective experimental fashion just what can be done to improve the reliability of psychiatric measures.