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The ASEBA is a comprehensive, cost-effective, and user-friendly system for assessing competencies, adaptive functioning, and behavioral, emotional, and social problems at ages 1½ to over 90 years. ASEBA rating forms are available for completion by parent figures, caregivers, teachers, youths, clinical interviewers, observers, administrators of ability and achievement tests, adults reporting on their own functioning, and acquaintances of the adults who are being assessed. ASEBA forms can be completed in classic paper-and-pencil format, machine readable format, and online. ASEBA scores can be displayed in relation to age-, gender-, and informant-specific norms on both computer-scored profiles and paper-and-pencil profiles. Norms based on data from diverse societies around the world are provided by the computer Module for Ages 6-18 with Multicultural Options. This Module enables users to enter and score data from the Child Behavior Checklist for Ages 6-18 (CBCL/6-18), Teacher's Report Form for Ages 6-18 (TRF), and Youth Self-Report for Ages 11-18 (YSR). Manuals for the ASEBA instruments extensively document the development, psychometrics, reliability, validity, and applications of the instruments.
ASEBA materials are researched, developed, and produced primarily at the Research Center for Children, Youth, and Families, Inc. The Center is a nonprofit scientific and educational corporation located at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont.
The President of the Center is Thomas M. Achenbach, Ph.D., who has been Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Vermont since 1980. A summa cum laude graduate of Yale University, Dr. Achenbach earned his Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Minnesota. Before coming to Vermont, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow, Assistant Professor, and Associate Professor at Yale, and a Research Psychologist at the National Institute of Mental Health.
Dr. Achenbach has been a Social Science Research Council Senior Faculty Fellow with Jean Piaget at the University of Geneva and a German Government Fellow at the University of Heidelberg. He has been honored with the Distinguished Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association’s Section on Child Clinical Psychology and the University of Vermont’s University Scholar Award. He has been elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association’s Division of Developmental Psychology, Division of Clinical Psychology, Division of Children, Youth, and Families, and Division of Clinical Child Psychology. He is also a fellow of the American Psychopathological Association and has been named by the Institute of Scientific Information as one of the most highly cited authors in the world psychology and psychiatry literature. Dr. Achenbach has authored over 250 publications and has presented some 230 addresses, workshops, colloquia, and grand rounds in 30 countries.
The staff of the Research Center for Children, Youth, and Families includes psychologists, psychiatrists, programmers, technical support specialists, and customer service specialists. The Center works closely with colleagues elsewhere to advance research, education, and services related to adaptive and maladaptive functioning. Many Center staff members and colleagues throughout the world have contributed to the development of ASEBA materials.Continue with ASEBA Origins
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