Funding and Support
British Columbia’s Ministry for Children and Family Development provided
funding to support this work. A Career Scholar Award from the Michael Smith
Foundation for Health Research also supports Charlotte Waddell. Dan Offord
is supported by the Human Growth and Development Program of the Canadian
Institute for Advanced Research.
Acknowledgements
We thank George McLauchlin for comments on earlier drafts of this manuscript
and Paul Waraich for advice on reporting data.
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Authors
1. Assistant Professor, Mental Health Evaluation and Community Consultation
Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
British Columbia.
2. Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences,
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario; Director, Canadian Centre for Studies
of Children at Risk, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation,
Hamilton, Ontario.
3. Research Assistant, Mental Health Evaluation and Community Consultation
Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
British Columbia.
4. Research Assistant, Mental Health Evaluation and Community Consultation
Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
British Columbia.
5. Adjunct Professor, Mental Health Evaluation and Community Consultation
Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
British Columbia.
Address for correspondence: Dr C Waddell, Mental Health Evaluation and
Community Consultation Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine,
University of British Columbia, 2250 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1W6
e-mail: cwaddell@interchange.ubc.ca
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