Developing a Brief Cross-Culturally Validated Screening Tool for Externalizing Disorders in Children

The study aims at developing and validating a brief, easy-to-use screening instrument for teachers to predict externalizing disorders in children and recommending them for timely referral. The scores are compared between Dutch and non-Dutch immigrant children and a significant amount of cases for externalizing disorders were identified but sex and ethnicity did not contribute to this prediction.