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01-02-2013 | Editorial

To what extent can we predict the future?

Author: Johannes Hebebrand

Published in: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | Issue 2/2013

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Möricke et al. (this issue) are to be commended for their study on behavioral and developmental profiles of 14–15 months old children. The sample encompassing 6.330 children was derived from a birth cohort study which included children born between August 2000 and August 2001 in the province of Utrecht/The Netherlands. Parents filled in the 74-item Utrecht Screening Questionnaire, which is based on selected items of the Childhood Behavior Checklist, the Vineland Social-Emotional Early Childhood Scales and the Early Screening of Autistic Traits Questionnaire. All items were deemed as being suitable for children younger than 18 months and had to be specific for externalizing, internalizing or social-communicative problems. The investigators used exploratory factors and latent class analyses to identify subgroups of children with homogeneous behavioral and developmental profiles; the respective subgroups were compared with existing classifications on a descriptive level. …

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Title: To what extent can we predict the future?
Author: Johannes Hebebrand
Publication date: 01-02-2013
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry / Issue 2/2013
Print ISSN: 1018-8827
Electronic ISSN: 1435-165X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-012-0370-x

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