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Developmental, child, family and couple

Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders.

SCARED

What it measures
Child anxiety across 5 factors: Panic/Somatic, Generalized Anxiety, Separation Anxiety, Social Phobia, School Avoidance
Length and format
41 (also a 5-item screener). 3-point (not true to very/often true) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Many languages incl. French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Thai and others
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
public-domain / open

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Reference
Birmaher, B., et al. (1997). The Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED). Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 36(4), 545-553.

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