BRIEF®-A

Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function® - Adult Version

Purpose: Assesses adult executive functioning/self-regulation

Format: Paper and pencil, Online administration, Software, E-Manual

Age range: 18 years to 90 years

Time: 10–15 minutes

DETAILS:

The BRIEF-A is a standardized measure that captures views of an adult’s executive functions or self-regulation in his or her everyday environment. Both a self-report and an informant report are used.

Features and Benefits

• Based on the original BRIEF, the BRIEF-A includes 75 items within nine nonoverlapping theoretically and empirically derived clinical scales: Inhibit, Self-Monitor, Plan/Organize, Shift, Initiate, Task Monitor, Emotional Control, Working Memory, and Organization of Materials.

• Useful for a wide variety of developmental, systemic, neurological, and psychiatric disorders such as attention disorders, learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, depression, mild cognitive impairment, dementia, and schizophrenia.