THE DIAGNOSTIC INTERVIEW SCHEDULE FOR CHILDREN (PC-DISC V3.0) - PARENTS AND ADOLESCENTS SUGGEST REASONS FOR EXPECTING DISCREPANT ANSWERS

To identify, reasons for discrepancies between parent and child report s of child/adolescents's psychiatric symptoms, parents and adolescents (51 pairs) were asked to guess what the other would answer to questio ns from the PC-DISC about the adolescent's psychiatric symptoms, and t o explain why they expected disagreement when the answer they provided for the other was different from their own. Adolescents' explanations for expecting (1) parental denial of symptoms the adolescent reported were: the parent was unaware of forgot about, assumed the adolescent could not have, or trivialized the symptom; and (2) parental report of symptoms the adolescent denied were: the parent misread or exaggerate d the adolescent's symptom, had too high expectations for the adolesce nt's behavior, put a negative label on or did not trust the adolescent . Parents' reasons for expecting their children to (1) deny symptoms t he parents reported were: the adolescent did not remember how s/he fel t, lied, did not recognize or minimized the importance or frequency of the symptom; and (2) report symptoms the parents denied were: the ado lescent lied, exaggerated the importance of or interpreted the symptom differently.