Patients 9365 boys who had a non-psychotic, non-major affective psychiatric disorder from a cohort of 124 244 boys aged 16–17 years who had a mandatory medical and psychiatric health assessment by the Israeli draft board. Adolescents with affective disorders and those who were admitted to hospital for schizophrenia prior to or within 1 year after the draft board assessment were excluded from th...

A community sample of depressed and well mothers, recruited at 2 months postpartum and assessed through to 18 months, was followed up at 5 years. The quality of mother-child interactions was assessed, as was the children's behavioural and social adjustment, using maternal reports and observations of child behaviour during free play at school. Several aspects of child outcome were found to be as...

The study was designed to assess the frequency and intensity of patients' anger directed toward various potential targets and how intensity of anger toward different targets was related to the chronic pain experience. Ninety-six chronic pain patients who were referred for a comprehensive evaluation completed questionnaires to assess their levels of anger, pain, distress, and disability. Approxi...

There is a need for a standardized psychological method of evaluation of psychopathology comparable to the standardized psychological method for evaluation of intelligence. A quantitative approach to the identification of maladaptive behavior patterns is provided by the Structured Clinical Interview (SCI). The SCI was designed to serve as an individual test of social and psychological adjustmen...