ASEBA Overview
The Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA) offers a comprehensive approach to assessing adaptive and maladaptive functioning. Developed through decades of research and practical experience to identify actual patterns of functioning, the ASEBA provides thoughtful professionals with user-friendly tools. ASEBA instruments clearly document clients’ functioning in terms of both quantitative scores and individualized descriptions in respondents’ own words. Descriptions include what concerns respondents most about the clients, the best things about clients, and details of competencies and problems that are not captured by quantitative scores alone. The individualized descriptive data, plus competence, adaptive, and problem scores, facilitate comprehensive, in-depth assessment. Numerous studies demonstrate significant associations between ASEBA scores and both diagnostic and special-education classifications (for references, see the Bibliography of Published Studies using the ASEBA).
In 2007, we released the Module for Ages 6-18 with Multicultural Options. This Module enables users to score the CBCL/6-18, TRF, and YSR in relation to different sets of norms based on data from many societies. The Module also scores four scales introduced in 2007. These scales are designated as Obsessive-Compulsive Problems, Posttraumatic Stress Problems, Sluggish Cognitive Tempo (not on YSR), and Positive Qualities (YSR only).
The Multicultural Supplement to the Manual for the ASEBA School-Age Forms & Profiles fully documents the development of the multicultural norms and the 2007 scales. It also extensively illustrates practical and research applications of the multicultural norms.
The Multicultural Guide for the ASEBA provides a quick reference to use of the Multicultural Options in various contexts.
Multicultural research with the ASEBA, other rating forms, and diagnostic interviews are detailed in Multicultural Understanding of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology: Implications for Mental Health Assessment.
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