The State of Prevention and Early Intervention
- 1 January 1996
- book chapter
- Published by SAGE Publications
Abstract
The overriding characteristic of children's emotional and behavioral problems is their heavy burden of suffering. When DSM-III criteria (American Psychiatric Association, 1980) were employed, the prevalence rates of one or more psychiatric disorders in five community samples varied between 17.6% and 22.0% (Costello, 1989). The age ranges of the children and adolescents included in these surveys also varied, with two studies including children as young as 4 years old (Bird et al., 1988; Offord et al., 1987) and one including adolescents as old as 20 years old (Velez, Johnson, & Cohen, 1989). Sources of the variability of the prevalence rates in these surveys include the characteristics of the target sample, the sampling ...Keywords
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