PSYCHIATRIC REFERRALS FROM SCOTTISH CHILDREN'S HEARINGS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
Whalley, L. J. ; Robinson, T. J. ; Mcisaac, Mary ; Wolff, Sula
Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Published 1978
Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Published 1978
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1469-7610
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Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
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Medicine
Psychology
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Children referred for psychiatric reports by the Scottish Children's Hearings were compared with other children known to the Reporter and with antisocial children referred to psychiatrists from other sources. The first group of children were characterized by the severity of their symptoms and family disturbance. They differed from other conduct disordered children referred to psychiatrists in being older, containing a greater excess of boys and, in the case of boys, more often coming from disrupted families with substitute fathers rather than single mothers. Associated features were very high rates of itinerant employment, criminality, excessive drinking and psychiatric pathology among the father figures and very large sibships, especially among the girls.
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Electronic Resource
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