1. Clinical Correlates of Co-occurring Psychiatric and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Symptom-Induced Impairment in Children with ASD
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Greg Perlman, Janneke de Ruiter, Kenneth D. Gadow, and Lianne Ramdhany
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,Season of birth ,Autism Spectrum Disorder ,New York ,Comorbidity ,Developmental psychology ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Risk Factors ,mental disorders ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,medicine ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Child ,Psychiatry ,Depression (differential diagnoses) ,Aggression ,05 social sciences ,Social anxiety ,medicine.disease ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Neurodevelopmental Disorders ,Schizophrenia ,Autism spectrum disorder ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,Psychology ,Mania ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,050104 developmental & child psychology ,Psychopathology ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
Although psychiatric symptom severity and impairment are overlapping but nevertheless distinct illness parameters, little research has examined whether variables found to be associated with the severity are also correlated with symptom-induced impairment. Parents and teachers completed ratings of symptom-induced impairment for DSM-IV-referenced syndromes, and parents completed a background questionnaire for a consecutively referred sample of primarily male (81 %) 6-to-12 year olds with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (N = 221). Some clinical correlates (e.g., IQ
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- 2015
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