Selected SDQ Publications

Goodman R (1997) The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: A Research Note. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 38, 581-586. (Abstract)

Goodman R, Meltzer H, Bailey V (1998) The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: A pilot study on the validity of the self-report version. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 7, 125-130. (Abstract)

Goodman R, Scott S (1999) Comparing the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire and the Child Behavior Checklist: Is small beautiful? Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 27, 17-24. (Abstract)

Goodman R (1999) The extended version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire as a guide to child psychiatric caseness and consequent burden. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 40,791-801. (Abstract)

Smedje H, Broman J-E, Hetta J, von Knorring A-L (1999) Psychometric properties of a Swedish version of the "Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire". European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 8,63-70. (Abstract)

Goodman R, Renfrew D, Mullick M (2000) Predicting type of psychiatric disorder from Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) scores in child mental health clinics in London and Dhaka. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 9, 129-134. (Abstract)

Klasen H, Woerner W, Wolke D, Meyer R, Overmeyer S, Kaschnitz W, Rothenberger A, Goodman R (2000) Comparing the German versions of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ-Deu) and the Child Behavior Checklist. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 9, 271-276. (Abstract)

Goodman R, Ford T, Simmons H, Gatward R, Meltzer H (2000) Using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) to screen for child psychiatric disorders in a community sample. British Journal of Psychiatry, 177, 534-539. (Abstract)

Koskelainen M, Sourander A, Kaljonen A (2001) The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire among Finnish school-aged children and adolescents. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 9, 277-284. (Abstract)

Mullick MSI, Goodman R (2001) Questionnaire screening for mental health problems in Bangladeshi children: a preliminary study. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 36, 94-99. (Abstract)

Goodman R (2001) Psychometric properties of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 40, 1337-1345. (Abstract)

Goodman R, Ford T, Meltzer H (2002) Mental health problems of children in the community: 18 month follow up. BMJ, 324, 1496-7. (Abstract)

Woerner W, Becker A, Friedrich C, Klasen H, Goodman R, Rothenberger A (2002) Normierung und Evaluation der deutschen Elternversion des Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ): Ergebnisse einer repräsentativen Felderhebung. Zeitschrift für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie, 30, 105-112. (Abstract), (Zusammenfassung)

Mathai J, Anderson P, Bourne A (2002) The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) as a screening measure prior to admission to a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health, 1, Issue 3. (Abstract)

Cury CR, Golfeto JH (2003) Strengths and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ): a study of school children in Ribeirao Preto. Rev Bras Psiquiatr, 25, 139-45. (Abstract)

Glazebrook C, Hollis C, Heussler H, Goodman R, Coates L (2003) Detecting emotional and behavioural problems in paediatric clinics. Child: Care, Health and Development, 29, 141-149. (Abstract)

Malmberg M, Rydell AM, Smedje H (2003) Validity of the Swedish version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ-Swe). Nord J Psychiatry, 57, 357-63. (Abstract)

Muris P, Meesters C, van den Berg F (2003) The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ): Further evidence for its reliability and validity in a community sample of Dutch children and adolescents. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 12, 1-8. (Abstract)

van Widenfelt BM, Goedhart AW, Treffers PDA, Goodman R (2003) Dutch version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 12, 281-289. (Abstract)

Mathai J, Anderson P, Bourne A (2003) Use of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire as an outcome measure in a child and adolescent mental health service. Australasian Psychiatry, 11, 334-337. (Abstract)

Muris P, Maas A (2004) Strengths and difficulties as correlates of attachment style in institutionalized and non-institutionalized children with below-average intellectual abilities. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 34, 317-328. (Abstract)

Mathai J, Anderson P, Bourne A (2004) Comparing psychiatric diagnoses generated by the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire with diagnoses made by clinicians. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 38, 639-643. (Abstract)

Becker A, Hagenberg N, Roessner V, Woerner W, Rothenberger A (2004) Evaluation of the self-reported SDQ in a clinical setting: do self-reports tell us more than ratings by adult informants? Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 13 Suppl 2, II17-24. (Abstract)

Becker A, Woerner W, Hasselhorn M, Banaschewski T, Rothenberger A (2004) Validation of the parent and teacher SDQ in a clinical sample. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 13 Suppl 2, II11-6. (Abstract)

Goodman R, Ford T, Corbin T, Meltzer H (2004) Using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) multi-informant algorithm to screen looked-after children for psychiatric disorders. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 13 Suppl 2, II25-31. (Abstract)

Hawes DJ, Dadds MR (2004) Australian data and psychometric properties of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 38, 644-651. (Abstract)

Marzocchi, GM, Capron C, Di Pietro M, Duran Tauleria E, Duyme M, Frigerio A, Gaspar MF, Hamilton H, Pithon G, Simoes A, Therond C (2004) The use of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) in Southern European countries. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 13 Suppl 2, II40-6. (Abstract)

Muris P, Meesters C, Eijkelenboom A, Vincken M (2004) The self-report version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: Its psychometric properties in 8- to 13-year-old non-clinical children. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 43, 437-448. (Abstract)

Woerner W, Becker A, Rothenberger A (2004). Normative data and scale properties of the German parent SDQ. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 13 Suppl 2, II3-10. (Abstract)

Woerner W, Fleitlich-Bilyk B, Martinussen R, Fletcher J, Cucchiaro G, Dalgalarrondo P, Lui M, Tannock R (2004) The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire overseas: evaluations and applications of the SDQ beyond Europe. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 13 Suppl 2, II47-54. (Abstract)

Hintermair M (2006) Socio-emotional problems among hearing-impaired children - initial results of the German version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ-D). Z Kinder Jugendpsychiatr Psychother, 34, 49-61. (Abstract)

Van Roy B, Groholt B, Heyerdahl S, Clench-Aas J (2006) Self-reported strengths and difficulties in a large Norwegian population 10-19 years : age and gender specific results of the extended SDQ-questionnaire. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 15, 189-98. (Abstract)

Ford T, Collishaw S, Meltzer H, Goodman R (2007) A prospective study of childhood psychopathology: independent predictors of change over three years. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol, 42, 953-61. (Abstract)

Palmieri PA, Smith GC (2007) Examining the structural validity of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) in a U.S. sample of custodial grandmothers. Psychol Assess, 19, 189-98. (Abstract)

Achenbach TM, Becker A, Dopfner M, Heiervang E, Roessner V, Steinhausen HC, Rothenberger, A (2008) Multicultural assessment of child and adolescent psychopathology with ASEBA and SDQ instruments: research findings, applications, and future directions. J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 49, 251-75. (Abstract)

Matsuishi T, Nagano M, Araki Y, Tanaka Y, Iwasaki M, Yamashita Y, Nagamitsu S, Iizuka C, Ohya T, Shibuya K, Hara M, Matsuda K, Tsuda A, Kakuma T (2008) Scale properties of the Japanese version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ): a study of infant and school children in community samples. Brain Dev, 30, 410-5. (Abstract)

Van Roy B, Veenstra M, Clench-Aas J (2008) Construct validity of the five-factor Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) in pre-, early, and late adolescence. J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 49, 1304-12. (Abstract)

Ford T, Hutchings J, Bywater T, Goodman A, Goodman R (2009) Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire Added Value Scores: evaluating effectiveness in child mental health interventions. Br J Psychiatry, 194, 552-8. (Abstract)

Giannakopoulos G, Tzavara C, Dimitrakaki C, Kolaitis G, Rotsika V, Tountas Y (2009) The factor structure of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) in Greek adolescents. Ann Gen Psychiatry, 8, 20. (Abstract)

Goodman A, Goodman R (2009) Strengths and difficulties questionnaire as a dimensional measure of child mental health. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 48, 400-3. (Abstract)

Janssens A, Deboutte D (2009) Screening for psychopathology in child welfare: the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) compared with the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA). Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 18, 691-700. (Abstract)

Shahrivar Z, Tehrani-Doost M, Pakbaz B, Rezaie A, Ahmadi F. (2009) Normative data and psychometric properties of the parent and teacher versions of the strengths and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ) in an Iranian community sample. J Res Med Sci, 14, 69-77. (Abstract)

Syed EU, Hussein SA, Azam SI, Khan AG (2009) Comparison of Urdu version of Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) and the Child Behaviour Check List (CBCL) amongst primary school children in Karachi. J Coll Physicians Surg Pak, 19, 375-9. (Abstract)

Goodman A, Lamping DL, Ploubidis GB (2010) When to use broader internalising and externalising subscales instead of the hypothesised five subscales on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ): data from British parents, teachers and children. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 38, 1179-1191. (Abstract)

Goodman A, Goodman R (2011). Population mean scores predict child mental disorder rates: validating SDQ prevalence estimators in Britain. J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 52, 100-8. (Abstract)

Goodman A, Heiervang E, Fleitlich-Bilyk B, Alyahri A, Patel V, Mullick MS, Slobodskaya H, Dos Santos DN, Goodman R (2011) Cross-national differences in questionnaires do not necessarily reflect comparable differences in disorder prevalence. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. (Abstract)

Richter J, Sagatun A, Heyerdahl S, Oppedal B, Roysamb E (2011) The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) - self-report. An analysis of its structure in a multiethnic urban adolescent sample. J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 52, 1002-11. (Abstract)


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