Autism, do labels and diagnoses help or hinder? - Professor Sami Timimi

Professor Sami Timimi talks about autism diagnoses at the DECP Annual Conference 2016.
The Child Outcomes Research Consortium (CORC) would like to clarify the purpose of the analysis and the interpretation we, CORC, made to the results at the time of analysis.
The graph shows the SDQ added value scores for different types of presenting problems, and was intended to illustrate how the SDQ is not sensitive enough to capture the change in children and young people with quite specific presenting problems such as Autism, Eating Disorders, or Psychosis as the questions in the SDQ do not cover the specific symptoms associated with these difficulties. The absence of change (or in some cases seemingly negative change) may be more indicative of the inappropriateness of the SDQ as an outcome tool for that population as opposed to a suggestion of whether the children themselves seen by CAMHS have improved or deteriorated.