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Peer reviewedJones, David P. H. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1994
This editorial introduces two articles on Munchausen by Proxy syndrome (the induction of an appearance or state of physical ill health in a child, by the caretaker, and the child's subsequent presentation to health professionals for diagnosis and/or treatment). The severity of the caretaker's psychological disturbance and the serious effects on…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Abuse, Deception, Mental Disorders
Kivlahan, Daniel R.; And Others – 1983
Recent approaches to empirical derivation and validation of alcoholic subtypes which involve cluster analysis wihin a single multivariate assessment domain have been questioned. To investigate more clinically meaningful subtypes in a sample of 245 male alcoholics, cluster analysis was performed on a combination of variables from four assessment…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Behavior Patterns, Cluster Analysis, Cluster Grouping
Glick, Marion; Zigler, Edward – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1995
The symptomatology of 93 psychiatric inpatients with mild mental retardation was compared with that of a matched sample of inpatients without mental retardation. Patients with retardation displayed more outwardly directed and less inwardly directed symptoms; more symptoms involving action than thought; and psychotic symptom pictures which more…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Mental Disorders, Mild Mental Retardation, Multiple Disabilities
