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Dimensions and Clusters of Symptoms in Disturbed Children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Sula Wolff
Sula Wolff*
Affiliation:
Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, EH9 1LF
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Child psychiatrists are much exercised at the present time about the classification of clinical syndromes occurring in children (Rutter et al., 1969). Perhaps surprisingly, there is less difficulty in the case of such relatively rare conditions as childhood psychoses, the psychoneuroses or even the syndromes associated with neurological dysfunction than there is in the categorization of the common behaviour disorders.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 118 , Issue 545 , April 1971 , pp. 421 - 427
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1971 

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