TY - JOUR
AU1 - Gale, Fiona
AB - Book review The ChA-PAS Handbook and Clinical Interview: For the assessment of mental health problems in children and adolescents Stephen Moss, Robin Friedlander, Pauline Lee Pavilion Publishing Ltd (2007) ISBN: 978 184196 215 3 The Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Interview Schedule The supporting handbook is very clear and gives (ChA-PAS) has been designed to enable professionals to comprehensive instructions about how to use the tool, assess mental health problems in children and why it has been developed in a certain way, when and adolescents. It was developed following the introduction how to involve informants, and how to interpret scores. of a similar set of assessments for adults with an While the ChA-PAS is a very useful approach to guided intellectual disability – the PAS-ADD system. The ChA-PAS assessment, the context of its use must be considered interview can be used with children from the general carefully. As the authors point out, it could have benefit in population and it is equally relevant for children with an a multiplicity of services and across tiers of provision. intellectual disability. The benefit of the interview However, if used in universal or primary care services it is schedule is that it enables the 
TI - The ChAPAS Handbook and Clinical Interview For the assessment of mental health problems in children and adolescents
JF - The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice
DO - 10.1108/17556228200800008
DA - 2008-04-01
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SP - 50
EP - 50
VL - 3
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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