Recent Developments in the Assessment and Diagnosis of Child Psychopathology

1995 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank C. Verhulst
Keyword(s):  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Child Psychopathology ◽  
Developmental Differences ◽  
Multiple Informants ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Assessment Approach ◽  
Multicultural Knowledge ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
Assessment And Diagnosis

In this article, recent developments in the assessment and diagnosis of child psychopathology are discussed with an emphasis on standardized methodologies that provide data that can be scored on empirically derived groupings of problems that tend to co-occur. Assessment methodologies are highlighted that especially take account of the following three basic characteristics of child psychopathology: (1) the quantitative nature of child psychopathology; (2) the role of developmental differences in the occurrence of problem behaviors, and (3) the need for multiple informants. Cross-cultural research is needed to test the applicability of assessment procedures across different settings as well as the generalizability of taxonomic constructs. Assessments of children in different cultures can be compared or pooled to arrive at a multicultural knowledge base which may be much stronger than knowledge based on only one culture. It is essential to avoid assuming that data from any single source reveal the significance of particular problems. Instead, comprehensive assessment of psychopathology requires coordination of multisource data using a multiaxial assessment approach.

scholarly journals Culture Unbound Volume 6, Editorial

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-11
Author(s):  
Johan Fornäs ◽  
Martin Fredriksson ◽  
Naomi Stead
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Full Length ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
General Tendency ◽  
Good Opportunity ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
Complex Transformation ◽  
Look Back ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
New Perspective

With this volume, Culture Unbound celebrates its five-year anniversary. This makes a good opportunity both to look back at what we have achieved and to gaze ahead to what we have planned for the future. This new volume, which will be more extensive and ambitious than ever, thus marks a readiness and willingness to engage with some of the most acute problems and complex transformation that society faces. We hope and believe that this not only expresses the ambitions of Culture Unbound but also reflects a more general tendency within contemporary cultural research. In order to better accommodate the most recent developments within the field of cultural research, and facilitate intellectual discussion and critical analysis of contemporary issues we also plan to expand our repertoire of published material. In the coming year Culture Unbound will therefore introduce a section of texts we have chosen to call ‘Unbound Ideas’. Here we welcome academic essays and texts of a somewhat shorter format and freer approach to scholarly convention than our usual full-length research articles. These essays will take different – perhaps speculative or conjectural – positions, or give a new perspective on pressing topics or recently emerged concerns within cultural research.

Protein-based nanodevices

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.P. Pompa ◽  
R. Rinaldi
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Electronics ◽  
Nanoelectronic Devices ◽  
Inorganic Matter ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Specific Proteins ◽  
Functional Units ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
Hybrid Devices ◽  
Technological Methods

This article discusses the exploitation of specific proteins for engineeringnanoelectronic devices. It begins with an overview of the basic characteristics of proteins as well as the main procedures and strategies in nanomanufacturing suitable for interfacing inorganic matter to biological units. It then considers nanoelectronic devices having proteins as functional units as well as the biophysical implications of protein-based nanobioelectronics. It also highlights major concerns about the possibility of integrating nanodevices with the present-day consumer electronics. Finally, it describes recent developments in thefields of biosensing and proteomics, along with the related technological methods in realizing hybrid devices and biocompatible interfaces.

Measuring the Relationship Between Parent, Teacher, and Student Problem Behavior Reports and Academic Achievement: Implications for School Counselors

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 2156759X0001800 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaprea Johnson ◽  
Michael D. Hannon
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Problem Behavior ◽  
School Counselors ◽  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
The United States ◽  
Multiple Informants ◽  
Child Reports ◽  
Student Problem Behavior ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Student Problem

This study investigates the relationship between academic achievement and reports of student problem behavior from teachers, parents, and child self-reports. Participants included 108 teachers, 113 parents/caregivers, and 129 students from an urban school in the Northeast region of the United States. Results suggest parent and child reports were closely related on identification of problem behaviors. The authors discuss implications for how school counselors can utilize multiple informants.

After the cultural turn: For a textural sociology

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 552-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo de la Fuente
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Organizational Studies ◽  
Georg Simmel ◽  
Cultural Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Practice Turn ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Surface Patterns ◽  
Cultural Turn

This article proposes the social sciences consider texture – rather than text − as the important legacy of the ‘cultural turn’ in the social sciences. The article considers texture in the literal sense of surface-patterns, as well as texture as a metaphor for the ‘dynamic’ and hard-to-capture qualities of social life. The article draws on the philosopher Stephen C. Pepper and the anthropologist Tim Ingold, the ‘practice turn’ in organizational studies and recent developments in geography and cultural research to map out different textural frameworks. While sociologists have lagged behind their counterparts in other fields in embracing a textural sensibility, the article considers the writings of Georg Simmel and the Yale School of Cultural Sociology as prominent exceptions to that rule. The article concludes by encouraging sociologists to consider the textural as a way into a ‘theoretical’ – as against a purely ‘methodological’ conception – of the qualitative.

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