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The deluxe kit (including manual, 25 each of the parent and teacher checklists, and 50 each of the symptom count and symptom severity profile score sheets): $154.00.
Parent and teacher checklists (pack of 50): $63.00
Symptom severity profiles are available separately for teacher and parent checklists (pack of 50): $17.00
All prices are in U.S. dollars and are accurate as of 2016.
Checkmate Plus PO Box 696 Stony Brook, NY 11790-0696 Phone: 1-800-779-4292 Fax: 1-631-360-3432 www.checkmateplus.com
No copy available from the Knowledge Institute. Contact author or publisher.
The deluxe kit (including manual, 25 each of the parent and teacher checklists, and 50 each of the symptom count and symptom severity profile score sheets): $154.00.
Parent and teacher checklists (pack of 50): $63.00
Symptom severity profiles are available separately for teacher and parent checklists (pack of 50): $17.00
All prices are in U.S. dollars and are accurate as of 2016.
1994, 2002, 2008, 2015
1st to current 5th editions; Parent and teacher forms.
Primary: General mental health assessment Secondary: None identified
This measure is intended to be a screening tool for childhood psychiatric disorders. It is NOT a diagnostic instrument.
This measure can be used to screen children for the presence and severity of psychiatric disorders to determine if a child should be referred for further evaluation.
Children and adolescents ages 5 to 18.
Additional information to inform measure use
CASI-5 has been updated to reflect the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5th edition (DSM-5). All items are the same as the previous CSI-4 and ASI-4 and there are no new norms
ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Separation Anxiety Disorder, Specific Phobia, Major Depressive Episode, Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia, Social Deficits, Communication Deficits, Repetitive Behaviours.
4-point Likert scale from ""never"" to ""very often"".
10-15 minutes
None (parent- or teacher-report).
Scoring can be done manually. Scoring can be done based on symptom count or symptom severity. For symptom count, "never" and "sometimes" are scored as 0 (i.e., not present), and "often" and "very often" are scored as 1 (i.e., present). The total number of symptoms present is then counted. This is the child's scale score. For symptom severity, "never" is scored as 0, "sometimes" as 1, "often" as 2, and "very often" as 3. The scale total is then calculated by adding item scores. The authors indicate that scoring and interpretation should be carried out by a psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, physician, or school psychologist.
The norms, reliability and validity statistics included in each measure profile are those reported by the author(s) of the measure. It is important to note that altering, adding or removing questions from a measure voids these reported statistics, possibly making the revised tool unreliable and invalid.
Parent form: 551 children ages 5-12 from public elementary schools in 7 states (but mostly in New York). Participants were predominantly Caucasian (89%).
Teacher form: 1323 children ages 5-12 from public elementary schools in 4 states. The participants were predominantly Caucasian (95.4%).
The authors reported internal consistency reliabilities (alphas) of 0.37-0.96, test-retest reliabilities of 0.34-0.87, and low inter-rater/cross-informant reliability (between parent report and child self-report). Further studies have also found low inter-rater/cross-informant reliability between teacher and parent reports.
The authors report evidence of extensive convergent, divergent, and concurrent validities, as well as discriminative validity and good sensitivity and specificity. Further studies have found moderate concurrent validity, extensive convergent and divergent validities, discriminative validity, and good sensitivity and specificity.
No copy available from the Knowledge Institute. Contact author or publisher.
The deluxe kit (including manual, 25 each of the parent and teacher checklists, and 50 each of the symptom count and symptom severity profile score sheets): $154.00.
Parent and teacher checklists (pack of 50): $63.00
Symptom severity profiles are available separately for teacher and parent checklists (pack of 50): $17.00
All prices are in U.S. dollars and are accurate as of 2016.
Checkmate Plus PO Box 696 Stony Brook, NY 11790-0696 Phone: 1-800-779-4292 Fax: 1-631-360-3432 www.checkmateplus.com
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