Measuring_Informant_Discrepancies

Measuring Informant Discrepancies There are important implications for diagnosis, assessment, and treatment based on discrepancies among informants’ ratings of child psychopathology. Measures are completed typically by parents and children to assess child dysfunction. These measures include self-report checklists and diagnostic instruments. Relatively little agreement on the nature and extent of the child’s social, emotional, and behavioral problems are some of the ratings gathered from these sources. The article reviewed and illustrates the most frequently used methods of measuring informant discrepancies in the clinical child literature (raw difference, standardized difference, and residual difference scores) and outlines key considerations to influence their selection. The article concludes that frequently used methods of measuring informant discrepancies are not interchangeable and recommend that future investigations examining informant discrepancies in clinical child research use the standardized difference score as their measure of informant discrepancies. Child research is a very important area of the counseling profession. I have found that in many ways it is vital to its growth. discrepancies, child, difference, informant, standardized, score, think, article, very, treatment, takes, sources, selection, research, ratings, parents, out, methods, measuring, measures, measure, little, important, frequently, found, feel, each, dysfunction, diagnosis, considerations, clinical, children, best, assessment, agreement