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The total score on the SCAS is interpreted in different ways depending on the child's age and gender. On the child-reported SCAS for boys and girls ages 8–11, a total score of 50 +/− 10 is considered in the average range for anxiety. A T-score of 60 and above is indicative of sub-clinical or elevated levels of anxiety.
The KSADS-P was the first version of the K-SADS, developed by Chambers and Puig-Antich in 1978 as a version of the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia adapted for use with children and adolescents 6–19 years old. This version rephrased the SADS to make the wording of the questionnaire pertain to a younger age group. [1]
AUC of .67, able to discriminate between children with anxiety versus non-anxiety disorders in clinical settings, as well as individual types of anxiety disorders. [4] Validity generalization: Good: Used in clinical settings for children and adolescents ages 9–18. Reliable across genders and ethnicities.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is recommending for the first time that kids ages 8 and up be screened for anxiety disorder. Yahoo News spoke with a member of the task force to learn more ...
It includes two sets of 20 questions, 20 questions for A-State anxiety and 20 questions for A-Trait anxiety, that is easily read, and if needed can be verbally read to younger children. [11] Spielberger also developed a few other scales, the State-Trait Anger Scale, the State-Trait Personality Inventory, and the State-Trait Anger Expression ...
Test-retest reliability: Adequate A meta analysis conducted by Bard, who extrapolated data, demonstrated that the test-retest reliability exceeded .80 for all summed scale scores in elementary school children populations with a time span of about a year. Test-repeatability TBD Data has not been collected for test repeatability.
Though support exists for using the BAI with high-school students and psychiatric inpatient samples of ages 14 to 18 years, [26] the recently developed diagnostic tool, Beck Youth Inventories, Second Edition, contains an anxiety inventory of 20 questions specifically designed for children and adolescents ages 7 to 18 years old. [27]
The ASEBA was created by Thomas Achenbach in 1966 as a response to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-I). [3] This first edition of the DSM contained information on only 60 disorders; the only two childhood disorders considered were Adjustment Reaction of Childhood and Schizophrenic Reaction, Childhood Type.