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Behavioural Characteristics of Primary School Children Referred to a Psychiatric Department

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Sula Wolff
Sula Wolff*
Affiliation:
Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh
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This investigation is part of a larger comparative study of Edinburgh primary school children referred to a psychiatric department with behaviour disorders and of a matched control group of non-referred children.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 113 , Issue 501 , August 1967 , pp. 885 - 893
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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