F severity of anxiety symptoms and impairment from anxiety disorder. Robin ramme, griffith university, australia the spence childrens anxiety scale scas. This study aimed to translate and validate the sastr in iran. Information from the site, including the spence children s anxiety scale, may currently be downloaded and used free of charge by researchers and individual practitioners. The demonstrated effect sizes for reductions in anxiety from the baseline to session 9 in this study cohen d0. Cutscores were identified to maximize sensitivity and positive predictive power. Screen for child anxiety related disorders scared child. The spence childrens anxiety scale scas is an extensively used and evaluated 44item questionnaire developed to assess anxiety symptoms in children, and. In addition we now have learning mentors offering individual. Spence, 1998 and its corresponding parentcaregiver version scasp. The spence childrens anxiety scale scas is an extensively used and evaluated 44item questionnaire developed to assess anxiety symptoms in children, and provides a sound base for the development of an abbreviated anxiety symptoms questionnaire. This article is within the scope of wikiproject psychology, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of psychology on wikipedia.
You can learn more about the test from the official homepage. Psychometric properties of spence childrens anxiety scale. The results support the use of evidencebased, multiinformant assessment. Among the instruments for the brief screening assessment of symptoms of anxiety and depression, the revised child anxiety and depression scale rcads is one of the more widely used. Spence childrens anxiety scale spence 1998 scale download archived copy. The parenting to reduce adolescent depression and anxiety. Outcome measure spence childrens anxiety scale scas. Assessing the revised child anxiety and depression scale. Highlights we examined the validity of the spence childrens anxiety scales ocd subscale. The spence childrens anxiety scale scas is a psychological questionnaire designed to identify symptoms of various anxiety disorders, specifically social phobia, obsessivecompulsive disorder, panic disorderagoraphobia, and other forms of anxiety, in children and adolescents between ages 8 and 15. The revised childrens manifest anxiety scale rcmas what i think and feel type of instrument. Screening and monitoring for anxiety symptoms with multiinformant, validated rating scales for childhood anxiety parent and child report such as selfreport for childhood anxiety related disorders scared and spence childrens anxiety scale scas.
Evidencebased assessment tools for common mental health. The spence childrens anxiety scale scas is a child selfreport measure designed to evaluate symptoms relating to separation anxiety, social phobia. Free, has both child and parent and teacher scales, ages 3 17 years, screens for anxiety and subtypes scared free, ages 9 17 years, has both child and parent scales, screens broad and specific types, can be a tracking tool. Psychometric jjt\ properties xavier mendez 1, jose p. Six items are filler items, which serve to reduce negative response bias. Below is a list of sentences that describe how people feel. Based on a revision of the scas, the revised childrens anxiety and depression scale rcads was created. The anxiety scale for children asd ascasd is a 24 item selfreport anxiety questionnaire, with four subscales. Revised childrens anxiety and depression scale rcads the rcads is a 47item designed to assess depression and anxiety in youth from grades 3 to 12. The scales are ed to the author and may not be reprinted in full in any publication nor resold for commercial purposes. Although statetrait anxiety inventory stai 12 is the most commonly used anxiety scale, this scale is designed for adults and developmental differences are not taken into account. Questionnaires building on the dsmiv criteria have been developed. The scale has two subscales total anxiety and total depression and an overall score. Separation anxiety sa, uncertainty u, performance anxiety pa and anxious arousal aa, for use with young people aged between 816 years with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder asd.
Read each phrase and decide if it is not true or hardly ever true or somewhat true or sometimes true or very true or often true for you. Scores were elevated in patients with ocd and decreased with treatment. I worry when i think i have done poorly at something and low mood e. Spence and available in various languages, the 45 question test can be. The spence childrens anxiety scale vaughan school is committed to providing support for all children and has done this in a variety of ways over the last few years. Issues in the development of braveonline and two case illustrations volume 36 special issue susan h. Presence and severity of child primary anxiety disorder anxiety disorders interview schedule for dsmiv, childparent versions, improvement in child presentation of anxiety clinical global impression improvement scale, and change in child anxiety symptoms spence childrens anxiety scale, childparent version and child anxiety impact. Rate the patients by finding the answer which best describes the extent.
Preschool anxiety scale revised pasr the subscale scores are based on results using a sample of 764 mothers and 418 fathers of children aged 3 to 5 years. Spence 1998 is a selfreport measure of anxiety symptoms and consists of 44 items. The rcmas is a 37item selfreport inventory used to measure anxiety in children, for clinical purposes diagnosis and treatment evaluation, educational settings, and for research purposes. Child anxiety life interference scale calis scoring. Anxiety scale for children asd neurodevelopment and. Instruments the scas is a 38item measure of anxiety symptoms in children. Parentchild agreement using the spence childrens anxiety. Think about each statement carefully and decide if it is not true or hardly ever true, somewhat true or sometimes true or very true or often true for you. This study examined the psychometric properties of the spence childrens anxiety scale child and parentreport forms in a sample of 85 children from the community and 85 children with anxiety disorders matched on sex and age. Scared brief assessment of anxiety and pts symptoms. Development of the spence childrens anxiety scale short. The sastr is a proxy rated measure and could assess social anxiety, generalized anxiety and also gives a total anxiety score. The rcads and its related scales weredevelop ed using many of the items on the spence childrens anxiety scale 1997, along with items representing dsm major depression symptoms and new items related to.
Pdf development of the spence childrens anxiety scale. The scas ocd correlated with interviewbased measures of ocd. Pdf reliability and validity of the spence childrens anxiety scale. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. Garciafernandez 4 1 department of personality, psychological assessment and. F evaluation of severity of anxiety symptoms and impairment from anxiety disorder. Screen for child anxiety related disorders scared child versionpg. This study evaluated the psychometric properties of a widely used selfreport anxiety scalethe spence childrens anxiety scale scas and the associated parentreport version pscasin a hong kong chinese community sample. Both child and parent versions contain 38 items in addition, the child version has six positive filler items. Pdf reliability and validity of the spence childrens. Development of the spence childrens anxiety scaleshort version. Anxiety and depression are among the most common mental disorders during childhood and adolescence. It is designed to assess clinical syndromes of anxiety as.
The scasp consists of 38 items rated on a fourpoint scale, ranging from 0never to 3always. Identifying children with anxiety disorders using brief versions of the. Instructions for scoring preschool anxiety scale revised. The school anxiety scaleteacher report sastr was designed to assess anxiety in children at school.
Children with autism spectrum disorder asd experience high anxiety which often prompts clinical referral and requires intervention. Spence, 1998 is a 44 item six positive filler items selfreport scale responded to using a 0 never to 3 always point scale. Mothers completed the spence childrens anxiety scale for parents scasp17 when their child was 10 years old. Schoolbased cognitive behavioral interventions for. Welcome to the spence childrens anxiety scale website.
Start this article has been rated as startclass on the projects quality scale this article has not yet received a rating on the. It provides an overall measure of anxiety together with scores on six subscales each tapping a specific aspect of child anxiety. Outcome measure spence childrens anxiety scale scas sensitivity to change yes population paediatrics domain psychological status type of measure parentreport, selfreport icfcodes b1 description the spence children s anxiety scale scas was developed to assess the severity of anxiety symptoms broadly in line with the dimensions of anxiety. A singlesession, webbased parenting intervention to. The revised childrens anxiety and depression scale25 rcads25 is a 25item scale that measures levels of anxiety e. It distinguishes between a general proneness to anxious behavior rooted in the personality and anxiety as a fleeting emotional state. Child anxiety life interference scale calis scoring these statistics were determined using a sample of 622 children 617 yrs who presented to 1 of 2 specialist clinics for assessment of anxiety disorders. The spence childrens anxiety scale scas was developed by spence 1998 with the aim of. Development of the spence childrens anxiety scale diva. The spence childrens anxiety scale scas is an extensively used and evaluated 44item questionnaire developed to assess anxiety symptoms in children, and provides a sound base for the.
Scared brief assessment of anxiety and pts symptoms ages 717 im going to read you a list of statements that describe how people feel. The assessment of anxiety symptoms in preschoolaged children. Online cbt in the treatment of child and adolescent. The translation and cultural adaptation of the original questionnaire were carried out in accordance. Evidencebased assessment, which requires the use of reliable and valid measurement tools, is an essential component of many services that school social workers provide to promote the social, emotional, and behavioral health of students. Largescale dissemination of internetbased cognitive. Treatment of child anxiety disorders via guided parent. The spence childrens anxiety scale scas is a widely used child and parentreport measure of child anxiety 70,71. Spence 1998 is a 44item child selfreport measure of anxiety symptoms spence 1998. Prevention of anxiety and depression in swedish school. The other assessors were experienced clinical psychologists. The spence childrens anxiety scale scas parent version directions for use description the scale consists of 38 anxiety items and one openended, nonscored item. The present study examined the measurement properties and factor structure of the spence childrens anxiety scaleparent version scasp in a large international pooled sample of youth with asd. Pdf development of the spence childrens anxiety scale short.
Data from 870 participants from 12 studies in the uk, usa and singapore. A very widely used questionnaire is the spence childrens anxiety scale scas, measuring five different anxiety disorders. The scaschild report scasc comprises 45 items, including six nonscored filler items, whereas. Background despite substantial evidence demonstrating numerous parental risk and protective factors for the development of adolescent depression and anxiety disorders, there is currently no single measure that assesses these parenting factors. See other formats open 3 access freely available online 0plos i one childrens separation anxiety scale csas.
Online cbt in the treatment of child and adolescent anxiety disorders. Press the button below to download a copy of the scale. Community and national resources autism tampa bay cares. Furthermore, the proportion of young people with clinical levels of anxiety at the baseline.
Click on the circle that shows how often each of these things happen to you. Anxiety in children pdf file, and the social phobia and anxiety inventory for children, spence childrens anxiety scale child and disorders, including panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, specific phobias. The spence childrens anxiety scale scas is a child selfreport measure designed to evaluate symptoms relating to separation anxiety, social phobia, obsessivecompulsive disorder, panic. Severity measure for agoraphobia craske, wittchen, bogels, stein, andrews, lebu 20 scale adult download. To address this gap, we developed the parenting to reduce adolescent depression and anxiety scale pradas as a criterionreferenced.
The scale assesses six domains of anxiety including generalised anxiety, panic agoraphobia, social phobia, separation anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder. The spence childrens anxiety scale is a useful clinical instrument for the assessment of anxiety in adolescents. The literature provides several examples of anxiety symptoms questionnaires for children. Spence, 1999 are amongst the measures that are routinely used in clinical and research practice as a measure of anxiety symptoms in young people with and without asd e. The statetrait anxiety inventory for children staich is the definitive instrument for measuring anxiety in children. The spence children s anxiety scale scas was developed by dr. In addition, the subdimensions of anxiety are not measured. Spence childrens anxiety scalechild and parent version scascp 36, 44 is a questionnaire designed to assess youth anxiety symptoms.
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