Robert Goodman: Professor Of Psychiatry Whose Strengths And Difficulties Questionnaire For Children With Mental Health Problems Has Been Widely Used
bmj;394/jul16_4/e100134/VS1F1vs1Throughout his career Robert Goodman, professor of brain and behavioural medicine at the Institute of Psychiatry, was driven by a passion to develop tools to give children and young people faster access to evidence based care.Stephen Scott, his friend and former colleague at the Maudsley Hospital and now president of the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH), said, “Robert carried out work that has transformed child mental health across the globe.”Goodman’s user friendly, one page Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)1 is a short and widely used tool to assess common mental health problems, peer relationships, and prosocial behaviour, as well as the impact of any difficulties the child is experiencing. It has been translated into 89 languages and is widely used in clinical practice, public health, and research. For example, the Office for National Statistics used it to generate official government data on the proportion of young people...
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