TY - JOUR
T1 - Diagnostic and measurement issues in the assessment of pediatric bipolar disorder
T2 - Implications for understanding mood disorder across the life cycle
AU - Youngstrom, Eric
AU - Meyers, Oren
AU - Youngstrom, Jennifer Kogos
AU - Calabrese, Joseph R.
AU - Findling, Robert L.
PY - 2006/10
Y1 - 2006/10
N2 - The goal of this paper is to review assessment research of bipolar disorder in children and adolescents. The review addresses numerous themes: the benefits and costs of involving clinical judgment in the diagnostic process, particularly with regard to diagnosis and mood severity ratings; the validity of parent, teacher, and youth self-report of manic symptoms; how much cross-situational consistency is typically shown in mood and behavior; the extent to which a parent's mental health status influences their report of child behavior; how different measures compare in terms of detecting bipolar disorder, the challenges in comparing the performance of measures across research groups, and the leading candidates for research or clinical use; evidence-based strategies for interpreting measures as diagnostic aids; how test performance changes when a test is used in a new setting and what implications this has for research samples as well as clinical practice; the role of family history of mood disorder within an assessment framework; and the implications of assessment research for the understanding of phenomenology of bipolar disorder from a developmental framework.
AB - The goal of this paper is to review assessment research of bipolar disorder in children and adolescents. The review addresses numerous themes: the benefits and costs of involving clinical judgment in the diagnostic process, particularly with regard to diagnosis and mood severity ratings; the validity of parent, teacher, and youth self-report of manic symptoms; how much cross-situational consistency is typically shown in mood and behavior; the extent to which a parent's mental health status influences their report of child behavior; how different measures compare in terms of detecting bipolar disorder, the challenges in comparing the performance of measures across research groups, and the leading candidates for research or clinical use; evidence-based strategies for interpreting measures as diagnostic aids; how test performance changes when a test is used in a new setting and what implications this has for research samples as well as clinical practice; the role of family history of mood disorder within an assessment framework; and the implications of assessment research for the understanding of phenomenology of bipolar disorder from a developmental framework.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0954579406060494
DO - 10.1017/S0954579406060494
M3 - Review article
C2 - 17064426
AN - SCOPUS:33847790938
SN - 0954-5794
VL - 18
SP - 989
EP - 1021
JO - Development and psychopathology
JF - Development and psychopathology
IS - 4
ER -