title: Is there a need for observationally based assessment of affective symptomatology in child and adolescent psychiatry?
abstract: There is growing dissatisfaction with current methods for rating affective symptoms in child and adolescent psychiatry. The need for additional reliable methods of evaluating mood disorders is significant. This annotation reviews the relative limitations of self-report and interview assessment techniques as contrasted with observationally based rating scales which offer additional advantages for assessment.
authors.affiliation: University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington 06030-2103, USA.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kaminer
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Feinstein
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Seifer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000296:Adolescent Psychiatry / Q000379:methods*; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D015982:Bias; D002648:Child; D002665:Child Psychiatry / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D015203:Reproducibility of Results