title: Validity of the DSM-Oriented scales of the Child Behavior Checklist and Youth Self-Report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The school-age versions of the ASEBA (Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment) incorporate the DSM-Oriented scales. These scales make it possible to quantify and normalize problems defined in the DSM. The objective was to study the incremental validity of the DSM-Oriented scales of the ASEBA inventories, the Child Behavior Checklist - CBCL, completed by parents of children aged 6-18 years, and the Youth Self-Report -YSR, a self-report for children/adolescents aged 11-18, over: (a) scores on the Syndromes Scales for making DSM-IV diagnoses; and (b) diagnoses obtained with structured interviews for the assessment of functioning.
  
  
  METHODS
  A clinical sample of 420 children and adolescents (8-17 years) was assessed with the CBCL, and 108 adolescents were assessed with the CBCL and YSR questionnaires. All underwent a diagnostic interview, and interviewers completed a measure of global functional impairment.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The DSM-Oriented scales showed significant incremental validity in conjunction with the Empirical Syndrome scales for discriminating DSM-IV diagnoses, and considerable incremental validity in conjunction with the diagnoses obtained through the diagnostic interview for predicting the level of functional impairment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  DSM-Oriented scales should be considered simultaneously with the Syndrome Scales of the ASEBA taxonomy, as they provide useful additional information in the clinical process.
authors: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
authors: Montserrat
authors: M
authors: Lacalle Sisteré
authors: Josep Ma
authors: JM
authors: Domènech Massons
authors: Roser
authors: R
authors: Granero Pérez
authors: Lourdes
authors: L
authors: Ezpeleta Ascaso
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D057189:Checklist; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D057566:Self Report