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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