CAB™

Clinical Assessment of Behavior™

Purpose: Assesses adjustment, psychosocial strengths and weaknesses, and problem behaviors in ages 2-18 years (parent ratings) and 5-18 years (teacher ratings)

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

Age range: 2 years to 18 years

Time: Standard Form: 10–15 minutes; Extended Form: 30 minutes

DETAILS:

The CAB is an objective, comprehensive, and highly reliable behavior rating scale that is closely aligned with current diagnostic criteria found in the DSM-IV-TR™ and IDEA.

Features and Benefits

• Assists in the identification of children and adolescents across a wide age range who are in need of behavioral, educational, or psychiatric treatment or intervention.

• Assesses behaviors that reflect current societal concerns and issues about youth and their behavior (e.g., bullying, aggression, executive function, gifted and talented).

• A balanced theoretical framework of both competence-based qualities and problem-based concerns makes the CAB useful for evaluating adaptive strengths and clinical risks.

• IDEA requires that emotional disturbance, an educationally related disorder, be differentiated from social maladjustment; two CAB scales, Emotional Disturbance and Social Maladjustment, can be used to help differentiate these conditions. The Professional Manual addresses these scales with a case example, discussion of interpretation, and, to further differentiate ED and SM, discrepancy score tables for each of the CAB forms.