title: German Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED): Reliability, Validity, and Cross-Informant Agreement in a Clinical Sample.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The psychometric properties and cross-informant agreement of a German translation of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) were assessed in a clinical sample
  
  
  METHODS
  102 children and adolescents in outpatient psychotherapy and their parents filled out the SCARED and Youth Self Report/Child Behaviour Checklist (YSR/CBCL).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The German SCARED showed good internal consistency for both parent and self-report version, and proved to be convergently and discriminantly valid when compared with YSR/CBCL scales. Cross-informant agreement was moderate with children reporting both a larger number as well as higher severity of anxiety symptoms than their parents.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In conclusion, the German SCARED is a valid and reliable anxiety scale and may be used in a clinical setting.
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistrasse 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany. jdanie6@uwo.ca.
authors.forename: Katharina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Weitkamp
authors.forename: Georg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Romer
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rosenthal
authors.forename: Silke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wiegand-Grefe
authors.forename: Judith
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Daniels