title: A rating scale for the severity of psychopathology in children.
abstract: The Scale for Assessing Severity of the Psychopathology in Children (SSPC) is intended to measure the overall psychosocial impairment caused to children and adolescents by psychic disorders. The scale contains 3 items (number of impaired areas of psychosocial functioning and duration of the modifications of child's behaviour; decrease of school performances below the expected level according to IQ; subjective distress caused by the psychic disorder either to the child or to the family leading to call for medical help) defining a single dimension. Each item is scaled on four degrees of impairment and described behaviourally in a detailed way. The total score summed over the 3 items corresponds to four levels of severity of the psychopathology. Interrater reliability, sensitivity to change and concurrent validity of the SSPC are examined over three studies.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Grigoroiu-Serbănescu
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D010556:Personality Tests; D011594:Psychometrics