Andres De Los Reyes

TL;DR: A theoretical framework is presented to guide research and theory examining informant discrepancies in the clinic setting and theoretically driven attention to conceptualizing informant discrepancies across informant pairs is focused on.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors meta-analyzed 341 studies published between 1989 and 2014 that reported cross-informant correspondence estimates, and observed low-to-moderate correspondence (mean internalizing: r =.25; mean externalizing: R =.30; mean overall: R.28).

TL;DR: This article critically evaluated research on the incremental and construct validity of the multi-informant approach to clinical child and adolescent assessment, and identified crucial gaps in knowledge for future research, and provided recommendations for "best practices" in using and interpreting multi-Informant assessments in clinical work and research.

TL;DR: For example, discrepancies often arise among multiple informants' reports of child and adolescent psychopathology and related constructs (e.g., parenting, family relationship quality and functioning, parental monitoring) and can be used to identify meaningful treatment outcomes patterns within randomized controlled trials as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The authors conclude that frequently used methods of measuring informant discrepancies are not interchangeable and recommend that future investigations examining informant discrepancies in clinical child research use the standardized difference score as their measure of informant discrepancies.