Resources

The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a self-report inventory behavioral screening questionnaire for children and adolescents ages 2 through 17 years old, developed by United Kingdom child psychiatrist Robert N. Goodman. The SDQ is freely available online, There are currently three versions of the SDQ: a short form, a longer form with impact supplement, and a follow-up form designed for use after a behavioral intervention. The questionnaire takes 5–10 minutes to complete.

How to score the SDQ

The SDQ scoring site allows one to score paper copies of a parent, teacher and/or self-report SDQ free-of-charge, and generates a brief report. Instructions on how to score the SDQ oneself are available on the SDQ website. Briefly, each of the five scales of the SDQ are scored from 0-10, and one can add up four of these (emotional, conduct, hyperactivity and peer problems) to create a total difficulty score (range 0-40). One can also add the emotional and peer items together to get an internalising problems score (range 0-20) and add the conduct and hyperactivity questions together to get an externalising score (range 0-20).

To complete a SDQ scoring please click on the link. www.sdqinfo.com/py/sdqinfo/c0.py

^ “Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire”. Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
^ a b Goodman, R., The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: a research note. J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 1997. 38(5): p. 581-6

The Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS) is a 47-item, youth self-report questionnaire with subscales including: separation anxiety disorder (SAD), social phobia (SP), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), panic disorder (PD), obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), and major depressive disorder (MDD).

The RCADS and RCADS-P can be scored either manually or by using an automated scoring procedure.

Manual Scoring.

To score the RCADS manually, each item is assigned a numerical value from 0-3, where 0 = Never,

1 = Sometimes, 2 = Often, and 3 = Always. For each subscale add the numerical values for each item together. The items that comprise each subscale are listed below. For example, for Generalized Anxiety you would add the numerical values for items 1, 13, 22, 27, 35, and 37. Thus, the highest score possible is 18, the lowest 0.

Automated Scoring.

Scoring programs for youth and parent versions are available at www.childfirst.ucla.edu/resources.html for scoring the RCADS and calculating T scores. Begin by entering youth’s gender and grade level on top right hand corner. Note: only grade level should be entered (not youth age). Continue by entering scores (0-3) for all 47 items. Raw scores by subscale will be generated and data points plotted along the corresponding figure. The figure shows a dashed line at T = 65. T scores of 65 or higher will show in a yellow background, indicating scores at the

borderline clinical threshold. T score of 70 or higher will show in an orange background, indicating scores above the clinical threshold.