The validity of the multi-informant approach to assessing child and adolescent mental health.

A De Los Reyes, TM Augenstein, M Wang… - Psychological …, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
Child and adolescent patients may display mental health concerns within some contexts and
not others (eg, home vs. school). Thus, understanding the specific contexts in which patients …

Research Review: Multi‐informant integration in child and adolescent psychopathology diagnosis

MM Martel, K Markon, GT Smith - Journal of Child Psychology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Background An empirically based, clinically usable approach to cross‐informant integration
in clinical assessment is needed. Although the importance of this ongoing issue is becoming …

Integrating multiple informants' reports: How conceptual and measurement models may address long-standing problems in clinical decision-making

BA Makol, EA Youngstrom, SJ Racz… - Clinical …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Assessing youth psychopathology involves collecting multiple informants' reports. Yet multi-
informant reports often disagree, which necessitates integrative strategies that optimize …

Introduction to the special section: More than measurement error: Discovering meaning behind informant discrepancies in clinical assessments of children and …

A De Los Reyes - Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Discrepancies often arise among multiple informants' reports of child and adolescent
psychopathology and related constructs (eg, parenting, family relationship quality and …

Agreement of informants on emotional and behavioral problems from childhood to adulthood.

J van der Ende, FC Verhulst… - Psychological assessment, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
Agreement among informants' ratings of children's and adults' internalizing and externalizing
problems is moderate. Each informant contributes unique information about an individual's …

A new approach to integrating data from multiple informants in psychiatric assessment and research: Mixing and matching contexts and perspectives

HC Kraemer, JR Measelle, JC Ablow… - American journal of …, 2003 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
OBJECTIVE: When there exists no single source of information (informant) to validly
measure a characteristic, it is typically recommended that data from multiple informants be …

Strategic objectives for improving understanding of informant discrepancies in developmental psychopathology research

A De Los Reyes - Development and psychopathology, 2013 - cambridge.org
Developmental psychopathology researchers and practitioners commonly conduct
behavioral assessments using multiple informants' reports (eg, parents, teachers …

Introduction to the special issue. A dozen years of demonstrating that informant discrepancies are more than measurement error: Toward guidelines for integrating …

A De Los Reyes, CC Epkins - Journal of Clinical Child & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Validly characterizing youth mental health phenomena requires evidence-based
approaches to assessment. An evidence-based assessment cannot rely on a “gold …

Cross-informant ratings of the behavior of children and adolescents: The “gold standard”

K Renk - Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2005 - Springer
The benefits as well as the difficulties of dealing with multiple informants have become
apparent in research and clinical work with children and families. The contributions of …

Informant discrepancies in the assessment of childhood psychopathology: a critical review, theoretical framework, and recommendations for further study.

A De Los Reyes, AE Kazdin - Psychological bulletin, 2005 - psycnet.apa.org
Discrepancies often exist among different informants'(eg, parents, children, teachers) ratings
of child psychopathology. Informant discrepancies have an impact on the assessment …