A clinical reappraisal study interviewed adolescent-parent pairs by telephone with the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children (K-SADS) Lifetime Version (Kaufman et al., 1997). As detailed elsewhere, concordance was good between survey and clinical diagnoses (Kessler et al., 2009c), with area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) of .81-.94 for fear disorders, .79-.86 for distress disorders, .78-.98 for behavior disorders, and .92-.98 for substance disorders. Parent and adolescent reports both contributed to AUC when both were assessed for depression/dysthymia (.75, .71, and .87 for adolescent, parent, and combined reports, respectively), oppositional-defiant disorder (.71, .66, and .85), and conduct disorder (.59, .96, and .98), but only parent reports contributed to AUC for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (.57, .71, and .78). Adolescent disorder AOO reports were obtained retrospectively using probes shown experimentally to maximize recall accuracy among adults (Knauper et al., 1999).
