An evaluation of the validity of the diagnostic category of attention deficit disorder.
- 1 July 1984
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
- Vol. 54 (3), 398-414
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-0025.1984.tb01506.x
Abstract
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) replaced Hyperkinetic Reaction of Childhood as a category in DSM-III. This study evaluates the validity of the new terminology by determining whether clinical diagnoses of ADD could be predicted from scores on a number of widely used psychometric and behavioral instruments. Results suggest that ADD is an inadequately specified category. Some implications of this finding are considered.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Institute of Mental Health (36-448, RR-0587)
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