Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS)
Description The Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS v1.1) is an 18-item self-report questionnaire designed to assess Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms in adults (18+). This scale is based on the World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview (2001), and the questions are consistent with DSM criteria, but reworded to b...
Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire â Believability (ATQ-B)
Description The Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire â Believability (ATQ-B-15) (Netemeyer et al., 2002) is a 15-item self-report measure designed to assess the degree of believability of cognitions associated with depression. The scale does not measure the frequency of unhelpful thoughts, but rather measures the extent to which the client believes the thoughts to ...
Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS)
Description The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS; Watson et al., 1988) is a 20-item self- report measure to assess positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA). PA is associated with pleasurable engagement with the environment, whereas NA reflects a dimension of general distress summarising a variety of negative states such as anger, guilt, or anxiet...
Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-10)
Description The Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-10) is a brief 10-item version of the full version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-42). The DASS-10 can determine the overall level of distress as well as provides subscale scores for two symptom clusters: Depression and Anxiety/Stress The scale was designed to be used for routine outcome monitori...
Obsessional Compulsive Inventory â Revised (OCI-R)
Description The Obsessive Compulsive Inventory-Revised (OCI-R) (Foa et al., 2002) is an 18-item self-report questionnaire and measures OCD symptoms across 6 subscales including washing, checking, neutralising, obsessing, ordering and hoarding. The scale is suitable for use with adults and adolescents (16 years +; Piqueras et al., 2009). Although initially develop...
Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness â Youth Version (MAIA-Y)
Description The Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness â Youth Version (MAIA-Y) is an 8-scale state-trait questionnaire with 32 items to measure multiple dimensions of interoception (body awareness). The MAIA-Y is suitable for use with youths between 7 â 17 years of age. There is a parallel adult version (MAIA-2) for use with individuals 18+ years...
Vanderbilt ADHD Diagnostic Teacher Rating Scale (VADTRS)
Description The Vanderbilt ADHD Diagnostic Teacher Rating Scale (VADTRS) is used to help in the diagnostic process of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children between the ages of 6 and 12. It is the teacher rated version which can be used in parallel with the parent version: Vanderbilt ADHD Diagnostic Parent Rating Scale (VADPRS). It has a total of...
Sleep Hygiene Index (SHI)
Description The Sleep Hygiene Index is a 13 item self administered index used to assess the presence of behaviours that are thought to compromise sleep quality such as âI take daytime naps lasting two or more hoursâ âI think, plan or worry when I am in bedâ and âI get out of bed at different times from day to dayâ. The Sleep Hygiene Index can be used in t...
Clinical Impairment Assessment Questionnaire (CIA)
Description The Clinical Impairment Assessment questionnaire (CIA) is a 16-item self-report measure of the severity of psychosocial impairment due to eating disorder features (Bohn and Fairburn, 2008). It focuses on the past 28 days. It was developed as a measure of functional impairment in domains of life that are typically affected by an eating disorder which inclu...
Regensburg Insomnia Scale (RIS)
Description The Regensburg Insomnia Rating Scale (RIS) is a 10-item rating scale to assess the cognitive, behavioural, and emotional aspects of psychophysiological insomnia (PI; Crönlein et al., 2013). The scale has been validated in an adult population. Psychophysiological insomnia is a form of primary insomnia and is defined by International Classifications of Sle...
Short Health Anxiety Inventory (SHAI)
Description The Short Health Anxiety Inventory (SHAI) contains 18 items that assess health anxiety independent of physical health status. Items assess worry about oneâs health, awareness of bodily sensations and/or changes, and the feared consequences of having an illness (Salkovskis et al., 2002). It can be used in both healthy individuals and physically ill indiv...
Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (ZUNG)
Description The Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale is a short self-administered survey to quantify the depressed status of adult patients. There are 20 items on the scale that rate the four common characteristics of depression, divided into 4 subscales: core depressive factor; cognitive factor; an anxiety factor; and a somatic factor. This scale is suitable for inpati...
Y-BOCS Symptom Checklist (Y-BOCS-SC)
Description The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Symptom Checklist is a clinician rated checklist designed to guide a structured interview to determine the target symptoms for treatment. There are 55 questions asking about both obsessions and compulsions. Validity The assessment a structured interview. Interpretation A list of past and current symptoms are pro...
Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS)
Description The Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) is a 10-item scale designed to measure the severity and type of symptoms in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) over the past seven days. The symptoms assessed are obsessions and compulsions. This scale is useful in tracking OCD symptoms at intake and during/after treatment. Validity This ...
Drug Use Disorders Identification Test (DUDIT)
Description The Drug Use Disorders Identification Test (DUDIT) was developed as a parallel instrument to the AUDIT (Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test) for identification of individuals with drug-related problems. It is an 11 item self report instrument that asks about patterns of drugrelated problems. Validity The DUDIT was originally evaluated for its se...
WHO â Quality of Life â Brief (WHOQOLBREF)
Description The WHOQOL-BREF was developed by the Word Health Organisation as a quality of life assessment that would be applicable cross-culturally. It is a 26 item self report measure, especially useful for measuring outcomes with adults with a psychosocial disability. The scale is designed to measure the impact of disease and impairment on daily activities and b...
Vancouver Obsessional Compulsive Inventory (VOCI)
Description The VOCI was designed to provide a self-report assessment of a range of obsessions, compulsions, avoidance behaviour, and personality characteristics of known or theoretical importance in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). It has 55 questions rated on a five point Likert-type scale. It is useful in tracking the underlying cognitive structure of OCD and ...
Vanderbilt ADHD Diagnostic Parent Rating Scale (VADPRS)
Description The Vanderbilt ADHD Diagnostic Parent Rating Scale is used to help in the diagnostic process of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children between the ages of 6 and 12. It has a total of 55 questions, includes all 18 of the DSM-IV criteria for ADHD and should be completed by a parent of the child. As well as identifying inattentive, hyper...
UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Scale (UPPS-P)
Description The UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Scale (Cyders et al. 2007) is a 59 item self report scale which is a revised version of the original UPPS created by Whiteside and Lynam (2001). The scale can be used with adults or adolescents to identify the separate personality facets that have been previously lumped together under the term impulsivity. The UPPS-P has f...
Thought Action Fusion Scale-Revised (TAFS-R)
Description The TAFS-R is a 19-item self-report measure of the tendency known as âthoughts-actions fusionâ (TAF) which is important to OCD. The distorted thought at the heart of thought-action fusion is the irrational assumption that just because a âbadâ thought presents itself to your mind, then it is undeniably followed or accompanied by a specific â...
The Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10)
Description The K10 is a psychological screening tool designed to identify adults with significant levels of psychological distress so that they may be appropriately managed. It has been widely used in the United States as well as in Australia, where it has been included in the Australian Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing (1997) and the Australian National Health...
