ASEBA - Ages 6-18 Module

Child Behavior Checklist for Ages 6-18

(CBCL/6-18)

The CBCL for ages 6-18 (former version, CBCL/4-18) has been updated to incorporate new normative data, include new DSM-oriented scales, and to complement the pre-school age forms (Ages 1.5-5).

The CBCL/6-18 obtains parents' (and other close relatives and/or guardians) reports of children's competencies and problems. Parents provide information for 20 competence items covering their child's activities, social relations, and school performance.

The CBCL/6-18 has 118 items that describe specific behavioural and emotional problems, plus two open-ended items for reporting additional problems. Parents rate their child for how true each item is now or within the past 6 months using the following scale:

• 0 = not true (as far as you know)
• 1 = somewhat or sometimes true
• 2 = very true or often true

The CBCL/6-18 Profiles provide raw scores, T scores and percentiles for three competence scales (Activities, Social, School), Total Competence, eight cross-informant syndromes, and Internalizing, Externalizing, and Total Problems. The cross-informant syndromes scored from the CBCL/6-18 (as well as the TRF and YSR) are:

• Aggressive Behavior
• Anxious/Depressed
• Attention Problems
• Rule-Breaking Behavior
• Social Problems
• Somatic Complaints
• Thought Problems
• Withdrawn/Depressed

The scales are based on new factor analyses of parents' ratings of 4,994 clinically referred children and are normed on 1,753 children aged 6-18. The normative sample was representative of the 48 contiguous states for SES, ethnicity, region, and urban-suburban-rural residence. Children were excluded from the normative sample if they had been referred for mental health or special education services within the past year.

Hand-scored and computer-scored profiles are available, as well as new French Rating Forms.

The Assessment Data Manager (ADM) for Ages 6-18 is bundled with the TRF and YSR modules, enabling you to compare any combination of eight forms per child.

Note: For children too young for the CBCL/6-18, use the CBCL/1.5-5 pre-school age forms instead.

COMPONENTS

All Forms and Profiles come in packages of 50.