Argues that health psychology for children is not given proper attention. Proposes applying a developmental perspective to health psychology, highlighting children's problems and the fact that children need to be viewed as more than potential consumers of adult health psychology services or as agents for the prevention of adult health problems.…

Evaluated clinical utility and construct validity of seven new Missouri Children's Behavior Checklist behavior profiles and compared them to four original profiles. Results indicated that seven cluster solution classified equally as well as four cluster solution, but with increased differentiation into more specific internalizing and externalizing…

Evaluated construct validity of the Missouri Children's Behavior Checklist scales and behavior profiles by determining the relationship between the MCBC and the clinical findings of an interdisciplinary evaluation of children (N=217) referred for developmental disabilities. Analyses showed substantial association between the MCBC and clinical…

Investigated the performance of learning-disabled (LD) and behavior-disorder (BD) children and youth (N=135) on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised. Results suggested that discriminant function analysis can be useful as one criterion in differentiating LD children from BD children. Implications are discussed. (WAS)

Explored the impact of group hypnotic and self-hypnotic training on the academic performance and self-esteem of learning disabled (LD) children. Important predictors of self-esteem improvement were the child's hypnotic susceptibility score and self-hypnotic practice by children and parents. Hypnotherapy is of potential benefit to self-esteem…

Compared principal component anlaysis with hierarchical cluster analysis of a psychodiagnostic test battery for children. Results are discussed within a multidimensional framework of cognitive abilities. The structure of the battery of tests included general intelligence, auditory and visual learning, academic achievement, and auditory…

Explored the hierarchical structure of mental abilities by comparing principal component analysis with a hierarchical cluster analysis algorithm on a short test battery for 182 children. Both the linear principal component analysis and the nonlinear hierarchical clustering analysis confirmed the hierarchical organization of mental abilities. (JAC)

Compared the performance of 56 children on the 11 subscales of the Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery-Children's Revision. Results revealed significant differences on Receptive Speech and Expressive Language subscales, suggesting a possible differential sensitivity of the children's Luria-Nebraska to verbal and nonverbal cognitive deficits.…

Compared the performance of learning-disabled and behavior-disordered children (N=60) on the Personality Inventory for Children (PIC). Results showed that learning-disabled and behavior-disordered children could be differentiated clearly on subtests that comprise the cognitive development and conduct disorder factors. However, less differentiation…

Investigated the effect of stress and preparation for stress on emotional indicators (EIs) of children, aged 4 to 12 years, who were hospitalized for elective surgery. All children were asked twice to draw a human figure. EIs increased only in the group that was stressed and unprepared. (Author)

Elementary school children of alcoholic mothers when compared to similar children with nonalcoholic mothers scored significantly lower on subtests of an academic achievement test. This result replicated and extended previous findings to a middle-class, well-educated population. Suggestions are made for future examination of antecedent causes and…

This investigation studied a range of 68 psychometric, academic, behavioral, demographic, neurological, and developmental phenomena in children who had been diagnosed by a multidisciplinary team, in an attempt to develop diagnostic profiles that could differentiate among discrete neurological, intellectual, emotional and specific learning…

Administered the WISC and WISC-R to 20 White children and compared their differences in a counterbalanced design to equivalent data obtained from Black children. For the White subjects, no differences were found between WISC and WISC-R measures. Black children scored significantly lower on the WISC-R on all three IQ measures. (Author)

Administered the Stanford-Binet and Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (Revised) to 121 children with developmental problems. Results showed 28 children received absolute differences of 12 points or greater between the Binet and the WISC-R. There were 10 instances of complete incongruence between the Binet and all the WISC-R IQs. (JAC)

Evaluated techniques for identifying faking on the Personality Inventory for Children (PIC). Undergraduate students (N=70) completed PICs on their child either faking bad, faking good, or legitimate. Results were cross-validated against a clinical sample. Results indicated a clinician cannot be certain a PIC profile is valid. (JAC)