PARENT, TEACHER, AND CLINICAL RATINGS ON ADMISSION TO CHILD PSYCHIATRIC INPATIENT TREATMENT - A STUDY OF CROSS-INFORMANT CORRELATIONS USINGTHE CBCL, RUTTER SCALES, AND THE CGAS

The present study compared the standardized ratings obtained from pare nts (Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and Rutter's Parental Questionnai re), teachers (Teacher Report Form (TRF) and Rutter's Teacher Question naire), and clinicians (Children's Global Assessment Scale (CGAS)) in a sample of consecutively admitted child psychiatric inpatients. Pears on's correlation coefficient between total scores on Rutter's Parental Questionnaire and the CBCL was 0.9. The correlation between total sco res on Rutter's Teacher Questionnaire and the TRF was also 0.9. The co rrelation between CGAS and parental scales was 0.3. The correlations b etween parental and teacher total scores and between the CGAS and teac her total scores were nonsignificant. The effects of sex, age, and typ e of disorder on the degree of agreement are also reported.