ASEBA Child Behaviour Checklist – CBCL
The Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA) offers a comprehensive approach to assessing adaptive and maladaptive functioning. The ASEBA provides useful information to design and monitor intervention. The competencies component examines a child’s participation and skills in certain activities, whereas the adaptive and maladaptive functioning component examines problem behaviours such as aggression, hyperactivity, bullying, and defiance.
Both parents/caregivers and teachers are encouraged to complete the 4-page questionnaires for children aged 1.5-5 years. It provides scores in theses areas:
Syndrome Scales
- Emotionally Reactive
- Anxious/Depressed
- Somatic Complaints
- Withdrawn
- Sleep Problems (CBCL only)
- Attention Problems
- Aggressive Behavior
DSM-Oriented Scales
- Depressive Problems
- Anxiety Problems
- Autism Spectrum Problems
- Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Problems
- Oppositional Defiant Problem
Forms for children and youth aged 6-18 years are completed by parents/caregivers and teachers. There is also a Youth Self Report for 11-18 year olds.
The forms provide scores on each of these syndromes:
- Anxious/Depressed
- Withdrawn/Depressed
- Somatic Complaints
- Social Problem
- Thought Problems
- Attention Problems
- Rule-Breaking Behavior
- Aggressive Behavior
The six DSM-V oriented scales are:
- Depressive Problems
- Anxiety Problems
- Somatic Problems
- Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Problems
- Oppositional Defiant Problems
- Conduct Problems
The forms are completed online.
