RCDS™-2

Reynolds Child Depression Scale™ - 2nd Edition

Purpose: Measures depressive symptoms in children in Grades 2-6

Format: Paper and pencil, Online administration

Age range: 7 years to 13 years

Time: 10-15 minutes

DETAILS:

Designed to screen for depression in children, the RCDS-2 retains the 30 items used in the original measure but presents updated normative data. Children are asked to answer questions about how they have been feeling during the past 2 weeks. All items are worded in the present tense to elicit current symptoms status.

Features and Benefits

  • Appropriate for children ages 7-13 years.

  • No scoring key is needed—the RCDS-2 form is presented in a convenient carbonless form. All administration and raw score information is presented in the brightly colored Test Booklet.

  • A new standardization sample of students drawn from 11 states is stratified to match U.S. Census statistics for gender and ethnic background. T scores and percentile ranges are provided for the total standardization sample, by gender, by grade, and by gender for each grade.

  • Maps onto the symptoms of depressive disorders outlined in the DSM-IV™.

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