The following Screening & Assessment tools and resources are available free of charge.
Forms to print out along with related instructions and literature.
CRAFFT (Self-administered): In 3 different languages:
DBD: Disruptive Behavior Disorders Rating Scale (DBD) is FREE and comes in a parent and a teacher version. The scale, based ion DSM criteria, identifies common behavior problems such as attention deficit disorder, attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity, oppositional disorders, and anti-social conduct problems in school children.
GAPS: The American Medical Association's Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive Services (GAPS) -- a comprehensive set of recommendations that were designed to be delivered as a preventive services package during a series of annual health visits between the ages of 11-21. GAPS implementation materials include downloadable PDF questionnaires that may be reproduced for use in clinical practice:
NORC DSM Screen for Gambling Problems (NODS): The NODS is based on the DSM-IV criteria for Pathological Gambling and assesses for both lifetime and past-year problem gambling. This instrument includes 34-items and was designed as an interview tool:
PSC: The Pediatric Symptom Checklist is a psychosocial screen designed to facilitate the recognition of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral problems so that appropriate interventions can be initiated as early as possible. Included here are two versions, the parent-completed version (PSC) and the youth self-report (Y-PSC). The Y-PSC can be administered to adolescents ages 11 and up. General information including directions for scoring, sources of studies for validating and using the PSC, and technical support can be found here:
SCAS: The Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (SCAS) is a FREE 38 questions scale that measures overall anxiety. Parent and Child versions are available and are divided into six subscales, including:Panic attack/agoraphobia, Separation anxiety, physical injury fears, Social phobia, Obsessive compulsive, and Generalized anxiety/overanxious disorder. 3 versions:
SDQ: The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a FREE 25-item brief behavioral screening questionnaire for 3-16 year olds. The SDQ is used as initial screener and/or measure of treatment progress. SDQ has both a self-report and a teacher report , including five subscales: Emotional symptoms, Conduct Problems, Hyperactivity/inattention, Peer relationship problems, and Prosocial Behavior.
South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS): The SOGS is a lifetime measure of problem gambling that has been found to be reliable and valid. This 16-item screening tool places individuals in one of three categories: Non-problem, Problem Gambler, Probable Pathological Gambling. 3 versions: