Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale.
RCADS
- What it measures
- Child/adolescent anxiety and depression mapped to DSM: Separation Anxiety, Social Phobia, Generalized Anxiety, Panic, Obsessive-Compulsive, and Major Depression; Total Anxiety and Total Internalizing scores
- Length and format
- 47 (full); 25 (RCADS-25 short). 4-point frequency (never to always) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Many languages incl. Spanish, Portuguese, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Romanian, Arabic, Indonesian, Yoruba and more
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- copyrighted - author permission
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- Reference
- Chorpita, B. F., et al. (2000). Assessment of symptoms of DSM-IV anxiety and depression in children: RCADS. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 38(8), 835-855. (https://rcads.ucla.edu)
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