Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 11 , Pages 1079-1084 , November 2009

Predictive Value of Callous-Unemotional Traits in a Large Community Sample

,Accepted 12 July 2009.

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 The British Child and Adolescent Mental Health Surveys of 1999 and 2004 and their longitudinal extensions were funded by the Department of Health and the Scottish Executive and performed by the Office for National Statistics.

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doi: 10.1097/CHI.0b013e3181b766ab

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume 48, Issue 11 , Pages 1079-1084 , November 2009

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