Clinical Perspectives on the Assessment and Diagnosis of Social and Neurodevelopmental Conditions in Children

Abstract

I wish to thank NIHR School for Primary Care Research (RG94577) and Wellcome Trust (WT103343MA) for their support for work on this dissertation. Recruitment for study described in Chapter Two was supported by the Central Research Network (CRN) Eastern. The data for Chapter Five was collected through Clinical Record Interactive Search (CRIS). CRIS is supported by the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health BRC Nucleus at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London jointly funded by the Guy’s and St Thomas’ Trustees and the South London and Maudsley Trustees. Data are owned by a third party, Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Clinical Records Interactive Search (CRIS) tool, which provides access to anonymised data derived from SLaM electronic medical records. These data can only be accessed by permitted individuals from within a secure firewall (i.e. the data cannot be sent elsewhere), in the same manner as the authors. For more information please contact: cris.administrator@slam.nhs.uk. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the CRN, NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health.