The Role of Measuring Functional Impairment in Assessing Serious Emotional Disturbance in Children
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Differences in Levels of Functional Impairment and Rates of Serious Emotional Disturbance Between Youth With Internalizing and Externalizing Disorders When Using the CAFAS or GAF to Assess Functional Impairment
This investigation examined how two commonly employed measures of functional impairment (the Child and Adolescent Functional Assessment Scale [CAFAS] and the Global Assessment of Functioning [GAF] scale) perform with respect to assessing levels of functional impairment and, hence, identifying rates of serious emotional disturbance (SED) across youth diagnosed with internalizing or externalizing...
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