Assessments
Addiction Behavior Checklist (ABC)
A brief, 20-item instrument designed to track behaviors characteristic of addiction related to prescription opioid medications in chronic pain populations. The tool was designed to be administered in an interview format and scored based on the participant's responses to questions.
Cattell's Culture Fair Intelligence Test
Intelligence Test
Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test
Intelligence Test
Haptic Intelligence Scale for the Adult Blind
Intelligence Test
Henmon-Nelson Tests of Mental Ability
Intelligence Test
Hiskey-Nebraska Test of Learning Ability
Intelligence Test
IPAT Culture Fair Intelligence Test
Intelligence Test
Kahlmann-Anderson Test of Mental Ability
Intelligence Test
Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test
Intelligence Test
Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test
Intelligence Test
Multidimential Aptitude Battery
Intelligence Test
Otis Self-Administering Tests of Mental Ability
Intelligence Test
Otis-Lennon School Ability Test
Intelligence Test
Personnel Test for Industry
Intelligence Test
Porteus Maze Test
Intelligence Test
School and College Ability Tests
Intelligence Test
Wonderlic Personnel Test
Intelligence Test
Raven's Progressive Matrices
Intelligence Test This assessment is a nonverbal group test typically used in educational settings. It is usually a 60-item test used in measuring abstract reasoning and regarded as a non-verbal estimate of fluid intelligence. It is the most common and popular test administered to groups ranging from 5-year-olds to the elderly. It is made of 60 multiple choice questions, listed in order of difficulty. This format is designed to measure the test taker's reasoning ability. The subject is asked to identify the missing element that completes a pattern. Age Range: 5 years and older
Columbia Mental Maturity Scale
Intelligence Test This intelligence test includes 92 classification items and are administered in levels based on the child's age and assumed development level. Usually only 51-64 items will be presented based on the child's level. The tool is designed to help educators tailor learning experiences for each child, whether they are typical learning levels or special needs. Age range: 3.5-12 years
Davidson Trauma Scale
PTSD Symptoms Test
Acute Panic Inventory
Panic Symptom Test
Simpson Angus Scale A.K.A. Extrapyramidal Side Effects Rating Scale
Parkinson - Symptoms relates to Drug Induced Parkinson
Nurses' Objective Scale for Inpatient Evaluation
Patient Behavior
Perdue's Peg Board
Perceptual Motor Test
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire - Revised
Personality
Kackson Personality Inventory - Revised
Personality
Millon Index of Personality Styles
Personality
NEO Personality Inventory-Revised (NEO-PI-R)
Personality
Personality Research Form
Personality
Taylor-Johnson Temperment Analysis
Personality
Firo-B-Schutz
Personality - Objective
Leary's Interpersonal Check List
Personality - Objective
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Personality - Objective
Sixteen Personapity Factor Questionaire
Personality - Objective
Tennessee Self-Concept Scale
Personality - Objective The Tennessee Self-Concept Scale, one of the most popular measures of self-concept in children, adolescents, and adults, offers norms down to age 7, easy scoring procedures, and guidance in interpreting scores and designing therapeutic interventions. The test gives you 15 scores, including an Academic/Work Score that tells you how respondents see themselves in school and job settings. Age Range: 7-90 years
Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III
Personality - Objective This assessment is used to evaluate and develop a plan for clients already seeking mental health services. The test is modeled on four categories of scales 15 Personality Pattern Scales, 10 Clinical Syndrome Scales, 5 Validity Scales: 3 Modifying Indices; 2 Random Response Indicators, 45 Grossman Personality Facet Scales. They provide information on personality traits and psychopathology. The MCMI-II is a 175-item test that assesses 13 personality disorders (DSM disorders) and 9 clinical syndromes (DSM) in adult clients in outpatient, inpatient, chemical dependency, and other treatment settings. It is especially helpful for clinical syndromes (e.g. mood disorders), substance abuse (e.g. alcohol variants), and personality disorders (e.g. borderline PD). The MCMI-II is designed to help clinicians detect personality characteristics that may indicate the presence of a personality disorder. This information can be helpful during the diagnostic and treatment planning phase of alcoholism management. Age range: 18 years and older
Thematic Apperception Test
Personality - Projective
Rorschach Inkblot Test
Personality - Projective This tool is a psychological test in which subjects' perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both. Some psychologists use this test to examine a person's personality characteristics and emotional functioning. It has been employed to detect underlying thought disorder, especially in cases where clients are reluctant to describe their thinking processes openly. Age Range: N/A
House-Tree-Person
Personality - Projective This tool measures aspects of personality and can be used to evaluate brain function and trauma. The client is asked to draw a tree, a house, and a person, but given very nonspecific instructions. The clinician makes conclusions based on the drawings. It is usually given among a series of personality tests. Age range: 3 years and up
Children's Apperception Test
Personality - Projective - for Children This tool consists of 10 animal pictures in a social context showing conflict, roles, and family structures, asking the child to describe what is going on in each picture. It is designed to gain a qualitative understanding of personality and emotional disturbance. Age range: 3-10 years
California Psychological Inventory
Personality - Subjective This personality based assessment is self-reported and consists of 434 true/false questions. It is scored on 18 scales, three of which are validity scales. It is designed to help "laymen" describe the behavior of themselves and others. Age range: 13 years and older
Basic Personality Inventory
Personality Test
Rotter Incomplete Sentence Blank
Personality Test
Readiness to Change Questionnaire-Treatment Version (RTCQ-TV)
(The RTCQ-TV is a 15-item questionnaire, based on Prochaska and DiClemente's stages-of-change model, for assignment of excessive drinkers (i.e., harmful and hazardous drinkers) to Precontemplation, Contemplation, and Action stages. It complements the original RTCQ, which is intended for non-treatment seekers. It is useful in clinical settings for assessing motivation with regard to readiness to stop or control drinking, and also, could be used to indicate the type of counseling approach in treatment planning.
ADE Needs Assessment
130-question, comprehensive, adult assessment tool. This instrument addresses life stress, attitude and emotional stability, criminal history and alcohol/drug use.
My Mood Monitor (M-3)
A 1-page, brief symptom checklist that allows individuals to rate their mood by answering a short series of questions that touch on important indicators of mental health. A self-administered 27-item screening questionnaire and is a valid and effective tool to help primary care doctors screen patients for depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Two Item Conjoin Screen for Alcohol and Other Drug Problems (TICS)
A "conjoint" screening question is one that inquires about experiences with both alcohol and other drugs. Though conjoint screening questions carry some disadvantages (an alcohol-only user may avoid responding affirmatively to a question that also includes drugs, and conjoint questions also do not detect specific substances of abuse), they do carry benefits as well. For one thing, patients who use multiple substances may be more likely to respond positively to a conjoint question than to questions about each specific substance. Additionally, conjoint screening questions allow clinicians to screen for alcohol and drug problems much more rapidly.
Tobacco Dependence Screener (TDS)
A 10-item questionnaire for screening of tobacco/nicotine dependence according to DSM criteria. Based on 10 questions taken from the tobacco use section of the WHO's Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI), with two items combined into one and the others shortened and made easier to comprehend. Each question is asked using a dichotomous response category (i.e., "yes" or "no").
Hooked on Nicotine Checklist (HONC)
A 10-item screening tool originally developed to assess the loss of autonomy over tobacco in adolescent smokers. It is a standardized index that can be applied across the lifespan because it is sufficiently sensitive to pinpoint the onset of lost autonomy in novice smokers and reliably distinguishes between degrees of lost autonomy among those who have been smoking for many years. May be useful to practicing clinicians as a self-administered office tool. It identifies youths for whom help and encouragement with cessation would be appropriate.
Zung Depression Scale (SDS and DSI)
A 10-minute assessment tool containing 20 items and a self-rated scale for evaluating depression in adults. This tool asks the subject to self-rate based on a 1-4 scale where 1 is none and 4 is severe. It also includes a number of somatic symptoms (sleep disturbances, weight loss, fatigue and decreased appetite). There is, in addition, a clinician-rated part (DSI) known as the Depression Status Inventory, which consists of the same 20 items which are rated by the clinician and gives a global measure of the degree of the depressive symptoms.
Readiness for Mental Health Treatment - Short Form
A 12-item instrument; the item stems are the same as in the original URICA-A. Three items each represent the precontemplation, contemplation, action, and maintenance stage of readiness for mental health treatment. As in the original instrument, the means of subscale items are computed to represent subscale scores, and responses are on a five-point Likert scale. Items describe situations in which a person may experience mental or emotional problems. Participants are asked to rate how they might feel at the present time when in these situations.
Tobacco Craving Questionnaire-Short Form (TCQ-SF)
A 12-item version of the Tobacco Craving Questionnaire (TCQ). It selects three items from each of the four factors (emotionality, expectancy, compulsivity, and purposefulness) of the longer instrument. Recommended in clinic and research settings where time may be limited, yet a multidimensional assessment of tobacco craving is desired.
Obsessive-Compulsive Drinking Scale (OCDS)
A 14-item, self-administered questionnaire for characterizing and quantifying the obsessive and compulsive cognitive aspects of craving and heavy (alcoholic) drinking, such as drinking-related thought, urges to drink, and the ability to resist those thoughts and urges. It has sensitivity as a monitoring tool and has predictive validity for relapse drinking. Preliminary data also indicate that this tool may be a useful screening instrument for the presence of alcohol abuse and dependence, and may be used to differentiate between individuals who are alcohol dependent and those who do not drink excessively.
Texas Christian University Client Evaluation of Self and Treatment (CEST)
A 144-item self-rating instrument that includes 16 scales measuring patient functioning and treatment perceptions. Includes measures for patient motivation, background attributes such as psychosocial functioning, treatment engagement aspects of the therapeutic relationship and patient satisfaction, and psychological improvement. Self-administered by patients, ideally every 1-3 months during treatment.
Short Inventory of Problems - Alcohol and Drugs (SIP-AD)
A 15-item test that measures physical, social, intrapersonal, impulsive, and interpersonal consequences of alcohol and drug consumption. Respondents indicate whether each item occurred in the previous 30 days (or, in other versions of the scale, whether they have ever happened in the respondent's lifetime).
Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability (START)
A 20-item clinical guide used for the dynamic assessment of seven risk domains: violence to others, suicide, self-harm, self-neglect, unauthorized absence, substance use, and victimization. This assessment tool represents a refinement in the assessment of dynamic risk factors in that it provides for the differential coding of both patient strengths and needs while allowing for the recording of case-specific risk factors. It is intended for interdisciplinary use and each of the 20 items is assessed according to succinct descriptions provided in the published manual. It takes 20 minutes to administer and complete.
Internet Addiction Test
A 20-item questionnaire on which respondents are asked to rate items on a five-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (not at all) to 5 (always), covering the degree to which their Internet use affects their daily routine, social life, productivity, sleeping pattern, and feelings. It was modeled on the DSM criteria for pathological gambling.
Cigarette Withdrawal Scale (CWS-21)
A 21-item measure of cigarette withdrawal symptoms. The scale has six dimensions or subscales, which cover the main components of nicotine or tobacco withdrawal in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems and in qualitative data: Depression-anxiety, craving, irritability-impatience, appetite weight gain, insomnia, and difficulty concentrating.
Trauma History Questionnaire (THQ)
A 24-item self-report measure that examines experiences with potentially traumatic events such as crime, general disaster, and sexual and physical assault using a yes/no format. For each event endorsed, respondents are asked to provide the frequency of the event as well as their age at the time of the event. Can be used in both clinical and research settings, and is available in English, Spanish, and German.
Penn Inventory of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
A 26-item self-report measure that assesses DSM symptoms of PTSD. It can be used with clients with multiple traumatic experiences because symptoms are not keyed to any particular traumatic event. The response format resembles that of the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) by having respondents endorse one statement from a series of four scaled sentences that best describes the degree, frequency, or intensity of their feelings during the past week.
Compulsive Sexual Behavior Inventory (CSBI)
A 28-item questionnaire designed to identify individuals with compulsive sexual behaviors, a constellation of sexual behaviors defined as extreme in number and intrusiveness, engaged in as a modifier of emotional issues, and which involves a significant disruption in normal interpersonal functioning.
General Health Questionnaire-28 (GHQ-28)
A 28-item self-report measure which identifies short-term changes in health perception. A scaled version of the GHQ designed on the basis of results from principal components analysis, with four sub-scales (A) Somatic Symptoms (B) Anxiety / Insomnia (C) Social Dysfunction (D) Severe Depression. It is a widely used measure of psychological health and has strong psychometric properties. Respondents base their responses on their health state over the past two weeks.
University of Rhode Island Change Assessment (URICA)
A 32-item measure that includes 4 subscales measuring the stages of change: precontemplation, contemplation, action, and maintenance. (There is also a 24-item version.) Responses are given on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (strong disagreement) to 5 (strong agreement). The subscales can be combined arithmetically (C+A+M-PC) to yield a second-order continuous Readiness to Change score that can be used to assess readiness to change at the entrance to treatment.
Addiction Counseling Self-Efficacy Scale (ACSES)
A 32-item scale which assesses aspects of addiction counselors' perceived self-efficacy for working with clients in the areas of: (a) specific addiction counseling skills; (b) assessment, treatment planning, and referral skills; (c) co-occurring disorders skills; (d) group counseling skills; and (e) basic counseling skills.
Online Cognition Scale (OCS)
A 36-item questionnaire that measures problematic Internet use. Items for the scale were drawn from symptoms of problematic Internet use, particularly focused on cognitions rather than behaviors, and also adapted from related measures of procrastination, depression, impulsivity, and pathological gambling. Respondents rate the agreeableness of each item on a 7-point Likert scale. Items include statements such as "I often keep thinking about something I experienced online well after I have logged off" "I get more respect online than in real life" "Using the Internet is a way to forget about the things I must do but really don't want to."
Fast Alcohol Screening Test (FAST)
A 4-question screening instrument designed for use in busy medical centers though it has been shown to be reliable in other settings as well. It was developed from the AUDIT (Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test). A significant feature is the ability of the first question to identify 50% of clients as either alcohol abusers or not. The total test takes approximately 12 seconds to administer and was consistently reliable when sensitivity and specificity were tested against AUDIT as the gold standard.
Substance Abuse and Mental Illness Symptoms Screener (SAMISS)
A brief (13 item) screening tool for detecting symptoms of co-occurring disorders. It was developed primarily from existing and tested scales. Includes 13 items assessing mental illness symptoms and substance abuse. The substance use screening items include questions from the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) regarding frequency and amount of alcohol use; questions from the Two Item Conjoint Screen for Alcohol and Other Drug Problems, which screen for substance abuse/dependence; one question regarding use of illicit drugs such as heroin or cocaine; and one question about abuse of prescription drugs.
Hoarding Rating Scale-Interview (HRS-I)
A brief 5-item semi-structured interview that assesses the five primary features of compulsive hoarding: clutter, difficulty discarding, acquisition, distress, and impairment. The scale shows promise as both a diagnostic instrument and as a means for determining the severity of compulsive hoarding.
Cannabis Use Problems Identification Test
A brief cannabis-screening instrument that is reliable, valid, and acceptable for use across diverse community settings and consumers of all ages. It has clear potential to assist with the achievement of public health goals to reduce cannabis-related harms in the community. It reliably classifies both currently diagnosable and potentially problematic cannabis use among respondents.
Higher Power Relationship Scale (HPRS)
A brief instrument designed for easy administration and scoring that may be of use to social work educators, researchers, and practitioners, particularly those who work in the field of addictions. Its 17 items measure the degree or magnitude of the relationships that individuals have with their "higher power" (a 12-step program concept that refers to the individuals' understanding of a power greater than themselves).
Risky Sex Scale (RSS)
A brief screening tool developed for and validated among, college students. It was designed to assess three domains of young adults' participation in sexual risk behavior: (a) expectancies for sexual arousal and performance following alcohol use ("I enjoy having sex more if I've had some alcohol," e.g.) (b) sexual risk behavior while intoxicated ("I am more likely to have unplanned sex if I have been drinking or using other substances," e.g.) (c) perceptions of gender-related risk for sexual violence following alcohol use ("Women are more vulnerable to sexual assault if they have been drinking or using other drugs," e.g.)
Problem Drinking Questionnaire (PDQ)
A brief self-report measure that screens for alcohol problems in the previous 6 months. Items include usual quantity and frequency of drinking, frequency of binge-drinking, medical and psychosocial problems associated with alcohol misuse, and previous attempts to reduce consumption. Respondents are asked to describe their usual number of drinks, how often they drink more than 10 drinks in a single sitting, their longest period of continuous drinking, how often they drink early in the morning, how often they feel guilt or remorse after drinking, and whether drinking has caused problems at work, problems with relationships, trouble with the law, health problems, etc.
Life Events Checklist (LEC)
A brief, 17-item, self-report measure designed to screen for potentially traumatic events in a respondent's lifetime. Assesses exposure to 16 events known to potentially result in PTSD or distress and includes one item assessing any other extraordinarily stressful event not captured in the first 16 items. For each item, the respondent checks whether the event (a) happened to them personally (b) they witnessed the event (c) they learned about the event (d) they are not sure if the item applies to them (e) the item does not apply to them.
Lubeck Alcohol Dependence and Abuse Screening Test (LAST)
A brief, but sensitive, screening questionnaire is important when trying to detect individuals with alcohol dependence or abuse, in general, hospitals or general practices. The CAGE, while short, is not particularly sensitive, and the Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (MAST), while sensitive, is not particularly short. For this reason, the authors created this assessment, which combines items from the CAGE and the MAST, in order to create a more sensitive and useful brief screening tool. This tool uses 7 items, which are answered either "yes" or "no."
Dartmouth Assessment of Lifestyle Inventory (DALI)
A brief, easy to use, 18-item screening tool designed to assess substance abuse among individuals with mental illness. Items in the scale cover alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine use, and ask questions such as "how much money have you spent on (drug) in the last 6 months?" "how long was your last period of voluntary abstinence from (drug)?" The instrument takes about six minutes to administer and is tailored for psychiatric clients in acute-care settings.
Marijuana Screening Inventory (MSI)
A cannabis-specific screening instrument. It was developed as a psychometrically reliable and valid tool for clinical use in general mental health and primary care settings. This self-report inventory takes approximately ten minutes to complete and consists of 31 Yes/No questions, which are scored, and eight additional items, which are not included in the total score.
Cocaine Selective Severity Assessment (CSSA)
A clinician-administered instrument that measures early cocaine abstinence signs and symptoms. The 18 items that make up this assessment were primarily drawn from symptoms commonly reported in the literature as being associated with early cocaine abstinence, including depression, fatigue, anhedonia, anxiety, irritability, sleep disturbance, and inability to concentrate. The items also address additional symptoms such as paranoia, carbohydrate craving, bradycardia, and suicidality.
Collateral Interview Form (CIF)
A component within the family of structured multidimensional clinical interviews known as the Comprehensive Drinker Profile (CDP), which were developed by Miller and Marlatt. This family includes the standard CDP as well as an abbreviated form (the Brief Drinker Profile (BDP), both of which are administered at intake; the Follow-up Drinker Profile (FDP) to assess treatment outcome; and the Collateral Interview Form, which provides a systematic method of eliciting information about the client from a significant other.
Admission and Discharge Criteria and Assessment Tools (ADAT)
A comprehensive approach to establishing an initial treatment plan which identifies the most appropriate level and intensity of care for a client entering addictions treatment system (or whether the client is ready for discharge). The Admission criteria, in particular, use the results of the Assessment Tools to this end. The Assessment Tools component is a suite of clinical assessment tools to be used by professionals to identify a client's strengths and needs in seven areas.
TWEAK
A five-item scale developed originally to screen for risk drinking during pregnancy (however, the items are not gendered specific and the scale can be used with either women or men). It is an acronym for the following: T= Tolerance: "How many drinks can you hold?" (or, "How many drinks does it take to make you feel high?") W= Worried: "Have close friends or relatives Worried or Complained about your drinking in the past year?" E= Eye-openers: "Do you sometimes take a drink in the morning when you first get up?" A= Amnesia (blackouts); "Has a friend or family member ever told you about things you said or did while you were drinking that you could not remember?" K(C)= Cut Down: "Do you sometimes feel the need to cut down on your drinking?"
T-ACE
A four-item questionnaire developed to for use with pregnant women; it provides obstetricians and gynecologists with a brief and useful way to identify patients at risk for drinking amounts which may be dangerous to the fetus. Positive results indicate exploration of the subject's drinking. In research, it can be used in conjunction with laboratory results and/or heavy drinking, or to estimate the prevalence of pregnant women at risk. It can be administered by anyone, including non-professionals, in under 1 minute.
Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ)
A growing literature shows that mindfulness-based interventions (meditation, e.g.) consistently have positive outcomes, suggesting that increased mindfulness is related to decreases in psychological symptoms. In order to fully clarify this process, psychometrically sound methods for assessing mindfulness are needed. The Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire is a 39-item measure that measures five facets of a general tendency to be mindful in daily life: observing, describing, acting with awareness, nonreactivity to inner experience, and nonjudging of inner experience.
Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS)
A measure that has been developed to identify those who are most likely to be exhibiting markers of substance dependence with the consumption of high fat/high sugar foods.
Pain Frequency, Intensity, and Burdan Scale (P-FIB)
A measurement of pain is important in both clinical and research samples. Although several tools have been developed to aid in the measurement of pain, no gold standard brief pain assessment is universally utilized. This measure, developed as part of a study in NIDA's National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN), was created to measure multiple aspects of pain. It consists of 4 items, each rated on a 0-8 Likert scale, with lower scores indicating less pain or burden during the past week.
Brice Symptom Inventory (BSI)
A multidimensional symptom inventory designed to reflect psychological symptom patterns of psychiatric and medical clients. This 53-item self-report is the short form of the SCL-90-R instrument. Can be useful in the initial evaluation of clients at intake as an objective method of screening for psychological problems.
Twelve-Step Ambivalence Scale (TSAS)
A potential contributor to individuals choosing not to attend 12-step meetings or engage in 12-step activities is their ambivalence about the 12-step approach and groups. This was developed to assess components of ambivalence thought to be related to non-engagement or early dropout. The primary aim was to elicit a comprehensive list of barriers as well as benefits that may shape TS program ambivalence.
Modified Selective Severity Assessment
A practical adaptation of the Selective Severity Assessment, designed to monitor and quantify that alcohol withdrawal syndrome in any medical setting It features ten items addressing symptoms such as eating or sleep disturbances, quality of contact with others, pulse rate, tremor, and agitation. It allows for quick diagnosis and treatment of the alcohol withdrawal syndrome, which can in turn significantly reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with this condition.
Drug Check Problem List
A screening measure that assesses recent problems resulting from the use of a specified substance. The initial eight items of the scale were adapted from the Problem Drinking Questionnaire and represent areas of functional impact. Four additional items (9-12) were adapted from questions in the CIDI, covering psychological impacts of the substance use.
Time to Relapse Questionnaire (TRQ)
A self-administered questionnaire that was designed to assess the time from the initial thought of drug use to actual use. The 9-item questionnaire found three discrete types of relapse style: Sudden Relapse, Short Delay Relapse, and Long Delay Relapse.
Chemical Dependency Assessment Profile (CDAP)
A self-report questionnaire that evaluates alcohol use, use of other drugs, and polydrug abuse. The profile assesses chemical use history, patterns of use, use beliefs and expectancies, use symptoms, self-concept, and interpersonal relations. Content dimensions provide measures of frequency/quantity of use, physiological symptoms, situational stressors, antisocial behavior, interpersonal skill, affective dysfunction, attitude toward treatment, and degree of life impact.
Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ)
A self-report version of the Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders (PRIME-MD), which was designed by Spitzer et al for the screening of psychiatric disorders in an adult primary practice setting. This assessment comprises the two components of the original PRIME-MD, the patient questionnaire, and clinician evaluation guide, combined into a single, three-page questionnaire that can be entirely self-administered by the patient. A fourth page for women has also been added that includes questions about menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, and recent psychosocial stressors.
Adolescent Problem Severity Index (APSI)
A semi-structured interview modeled after the ASI, developed by Metzger and colleagues to assist juvenile probation officers in identifying, documenting, and responding to drug and alcohol abuse and problems. This assessment tool includes a general information section that addresses the reason for the assessment and the referral source, as well as the adolescent's understanding of the reason for the interview. Additional sections of this tool include drug/alcohol use, family relationships, education/work, legal, medical, psycho/social adjustment, and personal relationships. Some concurrent validity for the alcohol/drug section has been empirically demonstrated.
Broset Violence Checklist (BVC)
A short checklist that assesses the risk of violence in the next 24 hours. A rater scores the presence (1) or absence (0) of confusion, irritability, boisterousness, physically threatening, verbally threatening, attacking objects. Takes 5 minutes to complete and is a well-validated tool that predicts violence within the next 24-hour period. It is designed for nurses in a psychiatric inpatient setting.
Treatment Readiness Tool (TReaT)
A short self-report measure for alcohol treatment readiness, a construct correlated with but distinct from general change readiness. The 23-item questionnaire was based on the University of Rhode Island Change Assessment (URICA) and the Readiness to Change Questionnaire (RCQ). This measurement of treatment seeking might have advantages in predicting treatment compliance, processes, and outcome relative to measures of general behavior change readiness.
Fast Alcohol Consumption Evaluation (FACE)
A short, five-question interview/screening test for alcohol-related problems that combines items from the AUDIT, CAGE, and TWEAK. The five items include AUDIT questions 1 (Frequency) and 2 (Usual quantity), CAGE questions 2 (Annoyed) and 4 (Eye-opener), and TWEAK questions 5 (Black-out), with each question scored on a range of 0 to 4. Provides an opportunity during normal medical practice to screen for heavy drinkers who may benefit from a brief counseling intervention by their general practitioners.
Exercise Addiction Inventory (EAI)
A short-form inventory that was developed to quickly and easily identify people at risk from exercise addiction. Consists of six items ranked on a scale of 1 to 5 (where 1 is "strongly disagree" and 5 is "strongly agree"). Items include "Exercise is the most important thing in my life" and "If I have to miss an exercise session, I feel moody and irritable." The instrument has been demonstrated to be psychometrically sound, with good internal reliability, content validity, concurrent validity, and construct validity. The scale has been found useful in a variety of settings, including as a self-assessment.
Single-Item Self-Rating Adherence Scale for People Living with HIV (SISR)
A single-item self-report adherence measure that uses adjectives in a 5-point Likert scale, from ‚"very poor" to ‚"excellent," to describe medication adherence over the past 4 weeks. The source study found the measure required very little time to complete, making it practical for HIV clinical care. These results and the SRSI's low patient burden suggest its routine use could be helpful for assessing adherence in clinical care and should be more widespread, particularly where more complex instruments may be impractical.
UNCOPE
A six-item screening tool composed of questions selected from existing instruments and assorted research reports. It provides a simple and quick means of identifying risk for abuse and dependence for alcohol and other drugs when neither is already clearly identified as a problem. Appropriate venues for its use would be mental health and medical clinics, employee assistance counseling, marital and family counseling. It is not appropriate for evaluating persons arrested for driving under the influence, those presenting for treatment, or those being evaluated for any issue associated with substances.
Addiction Research Center Inventory (ARCI)
A standardized questionnaire used for assessing subjective effects of psychoactive drugs that were developed in the early 1960s at the National Institute of Mental Health Addiction Research Center. Using the "private language of users," this assessment tool was developed to address the problem of the discrepancy of observer/user terminology by constructing the items from empirically validated, solicited responses of former addicts under the influence of various drugs. This self-report inventory was developed from the use of "sentence completion" and other association techniques on male subjects under drug and no-drug conditions. In addition, to demonstrated "drug-sensitive" questions, the final form of the inventory (550 "true-false" items) also contains items which were thought to delineate to some extent schizoid and "psychopathic" characteristics.
Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ)
A standardized, retrospective 28-item self-report inventory that measures the severity of different types of childhood trauma, producing five clinical subscales each comprised of five items: Emotional Abuse, Physical Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Emotional Neglect, Physical Neglect. The measure also includes a three-item Minimization/Denial scale indicating the potential underreporting of maltreatment.
Behaviors and Experiences Inventory (BEI)
A structured set of 50 questions designed to elicit information about behaviors and experiences before the age of 15 and after the age of 18. The questions cover reading issues, a history of sexual, physical, and emotional victimization, and indications of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Conduct Disorder, and Antisocial Personality Disorder. It is intended for use in the evaluation of individuals where behavioral problems and a history of victimization may be likely. It was designed for use with who are being evaluated for clinical services after having been arrested or upon release from correctional facilities. It is not a comprehensive assessment for these conditions and experiences but is intended as a screening tool to alert clinicians to issues in these areas.
Gambler Addiction Index (GAI)
A test specifically designed for gambler assessment. Has 166 items and takes 35 minutes to complete. It is computer-scored with reports printed within 3 minutes on-site. Standardized on gamblers (male and female) ranging in age from 17 to 75 years of age.
Mood Disorder Questionnaire
A validated screening tool for bipolar disorder in a psychiatric outpatient population. It consists of 15 questions and takes about 5 minutes to complete. The first 13 questions about possible symptoms are answered with either "yes" or "no." The other two questions assess family history, past diagnoses, and disease severity. The MDQ is a validated screening tool for bipolar disorder in a psychiatric outpatient population. It consists of 15 questions and takes about 5 minutes to complete. The first 13 questions about possible symptoms are answered with either "yes" or "no." The other two questions assess family history, past diagnoses, and disease severity. Bipolar disorder is commonly misdiagnosed; use of the MDQ can identify 70% of persons with bipolar disorder while eliminating the diagnosis for 90% to 100% of persons without the condition. An adolescent self-report version of this scale is also available (A-MDQ), along with a parents' version (P-MDQ) in which parents report on symptoms of mania in their children.
Veterans Alcoholism Screening Test (VAST)
A variant of the MAST but was designed to overcome the MAST's problem of being unable to distinguish between lifetime and current problems with alcohol. This assessment contains the original 24 MAST questions and retains the MAST scoring weights but follows each original question with three questions designed to identify the specific time period to which an answer refers: within the last year (considered "current"), >1 year ago but <=5 years ago and >5 years ago. Thus, this tool distinguishes past from current alcohol abuse.
Triage Assessment for Addictive disorders
A very brief, structured interview covering current alcohol and drug problems related to the DSM criteria for use and dependence. As a triage interview, it provides more definitive findings than a screen. Identifies obvious cases and provides substantial support for the diagnosis. In cases where a diagnosis is not indicated, this assessment tool provides documentation of negative responses to some of the more prevalent abuse and dependence symptoms. For the remaining cases, where only a few problems are indicated, a comprehensive assessment will be required to make a definitive determination.
NIDA Quick Screen
A web-based interactive tool that guides clinicians through a short series of screening questions and, based on the patient's responses, generates a substance involvement score that suggests the level of intervention needed. The tool also provides links to resources for conducting a brief intervention and treatment referral, if warranted. This screening instrument, a modified version of the World Health Organization's Alcohol, Smoking, and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST), is appropriate for patients age 18 or older.
Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10 and K6)
A widely used, simple self-report measure of psychological distress, which can be used to identify those in need of further assessment for anxiety and depression. This measure was designed for use in the general population to detect high-prevalence mental health disorders; however, it may also serve as a useful clinical tool, and scores may be an indicator of mental health disorders with lower population prevalence (e.g. schizophrenia). In addition, the tool can also be used as an outcome measure.
Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS)
Abnormal Movement Test
California Achievement Tests
Achievement Test
Graduate Record Exam
Achievement Test
Iowa Test of Basic Skills
Achievement Test
Miller Analogies Test
Achievement Test
Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)
Achievement Test
Stanford Achievement Test
Achievement Test
Wide Range Achievement Test
Achievement Test A short achievement test that assesses reading recognition, spelling, and arithmetic computation. It has two levels for children ages, 5-11 and ages 12-64. This test is similar to the Peabody Individual Achievement Test in that both are short, individually administered tests. Both tests cover comparable material in Reading, Spelling, and Arithmetic. The test is useful for comparison of achievement between various individuals, to determine learning disabilities and to compare codes with comprehension to compose and adjust learning remedial programs.
Residential Substance Abuse and Psychiatric Programs Inventory (RESPPI)
Adapted from the Multiphasic Environmental Assessment Procedure (Moos and Lemke 1994), the RESPPI consists of a rating scale and three instruments that tap separate domains of program characteristics: (a) policies and services, (b) physical features, and (c) aggregate patient characteristics. The Rating Scale for Observers (RSO) consists of 27 items that cover four dimensions: physical attractiveness, environmental diversity (extent of stimulation and variety), resident functioning, and staff functioning.
COMBINE Systematic Assessment for Treatment Emergent Events (COMBINE SAFTEE)
Adapted from the SAFTEE, a structured interview scheduled developed by the National Institute of Mental Health this assessment is designed to collect information on adverse health events occurring during a specified time period of the COMBINE clinical trial. The purpose of this tool is to report adverse health events, regardless of whether or not they are suspected to be drug related, in order to reduce the under-reporting of unanticipated events compared with "known or expected" events. This assessment uses two methods of elicitation: a general inquiry (GI) and a systematic inquiry (SI). The GI is an open-ended inquiry about any physical or health problems experienced either at that time or between the scheduled assessment intervals.
Overt Aggression Scale - Modified
Aggression Test
CAGE questionnaire
Alcohol Abuse Test A 4-item, relatively non-confrontational questionnaire for detection of alcoholism, usually phrased, as "have you ever" but may be focused to delineate past or present alcohol problems. Because it requires less than one minute for administration, it is a useful bedside clinical desk instrument and has become the favorite of family practice physicians, general internists, and nurses.
Alcohol Use Inventory (AUI)
Alcohol Abuse Test Explores how individuals use alcohol, secondary gains from use, consequences of drinking and the client's concern that they are using alcohol.
Michigan Alcohol Screening Test (MAST)
Alcohol Abuse Test. One of the most widely used measures for assessing alcohol abuse. Questions on the MAST test deal with the client's self-appraisal of social, vocational, and family problems associated with heavy drinking. Developed in 1971, the Michigan Alcohol Screening Test (MAST) is one of the oldest and most accurate alcohol screening tests available, effective in identifying dependent drinkers with up to 98 percent accuracy. Questions on the MAST test relate to the patient's self-appraisal of social, vocational, and family problems frequently associated with heavy drinking. The test was developed to screen for alcohol problems in the general population. The measure is a 25-item questionnaire designed to provide a rapid and effective screening for lifetime alcohol-related problems and alcoholism. It is also useful in assessing the extent of lifetime alcohol-related consequences. Although not intended to be a complete measure of alcohol-related problems, this assessment tool provides a gross, general measure of lifetime problem severity that can be used for choosing treatment intensity and guiding further inquiry into alcohol-related problems. Age Range: N/A
Drug Use Disorders Identification Test (DUDIT)
An 11-item self-administered screening instrument for drug-related problems, giving information on the level of drug intake and selected criteria for substance abuse/harmful use and dependence according to the ICD-10 and DSM diagnostic systems. It was developed to complement the AUDIT; both instruments yield scores on a continuous interval scale and can easily be used in criminal justice, addiction treatment, and psychiatric settings.
Alcohol, Smoking, and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST)
An 8-item questionnaire developed by an international group of substance abuse researchers for the World Health Organization. Its purpose is to detect psychoactive substance use and related problems among primary care clients. Provides information about: the substances people have ever used in their lifetime; the substances they have used in the past three months; problems related to substance use; risk of current or future harm; the level of dependence; and injecting drug use.
College Alcohol Problem Scale - Revised (CAPS-r)
An 8-item self-report scale In clinical settings, it can be used as an initial screen to estimate the relative frequency with which clients experience drinking-related personal and social problems.
Addiction Admission Scale (AAS)
An MMPI-2 scale that detects alcohol/drug abuse problems in the context of a clinical personality assessment. Consists of 13 items and is available in either pencil-and-paper self-administered or computer self-administered format. It is especially helpful for literate, adult subjects with at least a sixth-grade reading level.
Jellinek-PTSD Screening Questionnaire
An adaptation of the Primary Care PTSD (PC-PTSD) screening questionnaire for use among civilian substance use disorder clients (the PC-PTSD was developed for use with veterans). Both scales begin by providing a definition of traumatic events with a list of potentially traumatic experiences (e.g., serious accident, rape, sexual abuse). Participants are asked to mark all traumatic events they have experienced (or to write in one not listed), and then to fill out four yes/no items, reflecting on reexperiencing, avoidance, hyperarousal, and numbing symptoms.
Addiction Disorder Screen-7 (ADS-7)
An addictive disorder screening tool to predict potential risk for seven addictive disorders: chemical dependency (drugs) chemical dependency (alcohol) compulsive buying (or shopping addiction) compulsive gambling eating disorders workaholism sex addictions
Teen Addiction Severity Index-Two (T-ASI-2)
An extension of the T-ASI to assess the severity of substance abuse and related problems among adolescents 12-19 years of age. It is a self-report version of the T-ASI. It consists of 18 domains that assess current use of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and other drugs, as well as mental health service utilization, treatment satisfaction, school difficulties, social functioning with family members and peers, substance use by family members and peers, depression, anxiety, attention deficit, hyperactivity, defiant and risky behaviors, and readiness for change. It is designed to be a user-friendly, cost-effective, viable assessment of substance use behavior and related factors.
Barriers to Treatment Inventory (BTI)
An instrument that can be used by substance abusers and assessment staff as a useful tool for helping identify barriers to treatment entry. It contains items drawn from the extensive literature on barriers to treatment and from items found in the Allen Barriers to Treatment Instrument (ABTI), as well as other barrier lists. A discussion of the results from this assessment may improve the likelihood that barriers are successfully resolved and that linkage occurs. By increasing linkage rates, programs conduct fewer assessments that do not result in successful follow-through.
Coercion Assessment Scale (CAS)
An instrument that focuses specifically on coercive pressures that may be experienced by substance abusing offenders asked to participate in research. Preliminary findings from three studies have revealed promising levels of internal consistency and convergent and discriminant validity. Development of this assessment responds to the need for an instrument to accurately measure perceptions of coercion in this population. Much like consent quizzes and tests of cognitive functioning, this tool may be useful for identifying individuals who may not be appropriate for research participation because of their level of perceived coercion.
Electronic Psychological Assessment System (e-PASS)
An online, self-report, multi-disorder, clinical assessment and referral system. It is a comprehensive assessment program that, in addition to diagnostic assessment, measures a range of factors including sociodemographic background, suicide and psychosis risk, past and current treatment, and preferred learning style.
State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory
Anger Test
Burn's Anxiety Scale
Anxiety Test
Sheehan Patient-Rated Anxiety Scale (SPRAS)
Anxiety Test
Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety
Anxiety Test This assessment is designed to evaluate the severity of anxiety in clients and is used in both clinical and research settings. It consists of 14 symptom-defined elements, and caters for both psychological and somatic symptoms. For clinical purposes, and the purpose of this scale, only severe or improper anxiety is attended to. This scale is considered a "clinical rating" of the extensiveness of anxiety, and is intended for individuals that are "already diagnosed with anxiety neurosis." The Hamilton Rating Scale for Anxiety (HAM-4) was developed in 1959 by Max Hamilton primarily as a means of assessing anxiety symptoms in people who were already diagnosed with anxiety disorders. it is not intended as a means of detecting or diagnosing anxiety, but is most useful in helping clinicians measure client improvement over time. It is also not particularly useful in evaluating anxiety symptoms in clients with other psychiatric disorders. This scale is based on 14 items in which the client self-reports the degree of each symptom on a scale of 0-4, as follows: 0 is not present; 1 is Mild; 2 is Moderate; 3 is Severe and 4 is Very Severe. The test is heavily focused on somatic symptoms with much dependence on the client's self-report. Its focus on the subjective self-reporting of somatic symptoms as well as its lack of usefulness in anxiety assessment in clients with other psychiatric disorders are limitations to the usefulness of this scale. Moreover, a client may easily manipulate the results of this scale since it is so obvious. The test is widely used and easy to complete in a brief period; it has been heavily marketed by Upjohn and has no manual to speak of. It may have good merit if used as a supplement along with an interview or if cross-validated, however, it is still in need of further validation studies if it is to be used to confirm a claim. This scale generally takes approximately 20 minutes to complete and is administered by a trained rater or clinician. Its items to be rated include anxious mood, tension, fears, insomnia, intellectual concentration, depressed mood and somatic complaints. There is also a question to be answered by the clinician or rater regarding the behavior of the subject at the interview. Age range: Adults, adolescents, and children
State-Trait Anxiety Inventory
Anxiety Test This is an instrument that quantifies adult anxiety (a children's version is also available). This particular instrument is used to simplify the separation between state anxiety and trait anxiety, feelings of anxiety and depression. The STAI includes a 40 question response taking approximately 10-20 minutes for completion and the test is given in tens of different languages worldwide. This test is split into the S-Anxiety scale and the T-Anxiety scale, each having 20 items. These tests are answered on the basis of a 1-4 scale, with the focused areas including: worry, tension, apprehension, and nervousness. Age Range: 18+ years
Covi Anxiety Scale
Anxiety Test This is often used in conjunction with the HAM-A and is used to determine the severity of anxiety symptoms in clients. It is designed to distinguish between depression and anxiety. Although there is relatively little extant data concerning the scale's psychometric properties, it has been widely used as an inclusion/exclusion criteria and outcome measure in pharmaceutical trials. Items are rated on a 5-point scale ranging from 1 (not at all) through to 5 (very much). The Covi Anxiety Scale was developed by L. Covi with others as a way of measuring the severity of anxiety symptoms in clients. It is relatively simple and uses 3 points which are rated a spectrum of 1-5 depending on the severity of the symptoms, with 1 is not at all, 2 is somewhat, 3 is moderate, 4 is considerably and 5 is very much. The three dimensions questioned on are verbal report, behavior, and somatic symptoms (trembling, sweating, rapid heartbeat, breathlessness, hot and cold spells, restless sleep, discomfort in stomach, lump in throat, and frequently needing to go to the bathroom). This tool is frequently paired with the Hamilton Scale for Anxiety (HAM-A) which is more comprehensive in nature. While there is not a great deal of psychometric data on this test, it has been said to distinguish between individuals with depressive symptoms and those with anxiety symptoms with relative accuracy. The scale is generally completed by a clinician or trained rater and takes on average 5-10 minutes to administer. The first dimension, i.e. the verbal dimension, asks whether the client feels nervous, shaky, jittery, suddenly fearful or scared for no reason, has to avoid certain places, situations or things due to fear or has difficulty in concentration; the 2nd dimension asks about the behavior of the client (i.e. does the client look scared, is he/she shaking, apprehensive, restless, and/or jittery); the 3rd dimension asks about somatic symptoms of anxiety, including trembling, sweating, rapid heartbeat, breathlessness, hot and cold spells, restless sleep, discomfort in stomach, lump in throat, and frequently needing to go to the bathroom. Age range: 18 years and older
Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale
Anxiety Test for Children This is an important first step in assessing and treating anxious children. This test quickly identifies the source and level of anxiety in children so that steps can be taken to reduce stress levels. The RCMAS-2 measures for the presence of academic stress, test anxiety, peer and family conflicts, and drug problems. The test can be used in both clinical and educational environments. It includes a brief assessment with a simple yes/no response format in an elementary reading level and content-based item clusters that help pinpoint children's problems and focus on intervention. Age Range: 6-19 years
Differential Aptitude Test
Aptitude Test
General Aptitude Test Battery
Aptitude Test
Bayley Scales of Infant Development
Assesses for Developmental Delays in Infants The Bayley examines all the facets of a young child's development: Receptive Communication Expressive Communication Fine Motor Development Gross Motor Development Socio-emotional Development Communication Community Use Functional Pre-Academics Home Living, Health and Safety Leisure Self-Care Self-Direction Social Development Motor Development Age Range: 1-42 months
Young Adult Alcohol Problems Screening Test (YAAPST)
Assesses lifetime, past year, and past year's frequency of negative consequences of alcohol use among college students. Assesses both traditional consequences (e.g., hangovers, blackouts, driving while intoxicated) and consequences presumed to occur at higher rates in a college student population (e.g., missing class, damaging property, getting involved in regrettable sexual situations). Was originally comprised of 27 items, but 9 items were subsequently added.
Child and Adolescent Functional Assessment Scale (CAFAS)
Assesses the degree of impairment in functioning in children and adolescents secondary to emotional, behavioral, or substance use problems. It is a multi-dimensional measure, allowing measurement of several different dimensions of functioning, permitting more precise descriptions. Areas of functioning assessed by this tool include (for youth) school, home, community, behavior toward others, moods/emotions, self-harmful behavior, substance use, and thinking problems; (for caregivers) material needs, and family/social support.
Derogatis Sexual Functioning Inventory
Sexual Functioning
Substance Use Risk Profile Scale (SURPS)
Based on a model of personality risk for substance abuse in which four personality dimensions (hopelessness, anxiety sensitivity, impulsivity, and sensation seeking) are hypothesized to differentially relate to specific patterns of substance use. Brief (23 items) tool that is intended for use in large epidemiological and longitudinal designs to facilitate research on the role of multiple personality traits in addictive behaviors and co-morbid psychopathology.
Adaptive Behavior Scale
Behavioral Test for Children
Profile of Mood States (POMS)
Both versions of POMS measure six identifiable mood or affective states: Tension-Anxiety, Depression-Dejection, Anger-Hostility, Vigor-Activity, Fatigue-Inertia, and Confusion-Bewilderment. The POMS is can be re-administered on a weekly basis, which is long enough to detect the respondent's mood responses to his or her current life situation, but short enough to assess acute treatment effects.
Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory (SASSI-3)
Calculates the probability of substance use generating scores in dimension of defensiveness, willingness to acknowledge problems and the desire for change.
ACT Career Planning Program
Career
California Occupational Preference System
Career
Career Ability Placement Survey
Career
Career Beliefs Inventory
Career
Career Decision Scale
Career
Career Development Inventory
Career
Career Maturity Inventory
Career
Career Orientation Placement and Evaluation Survey
Career
Cops Interest Inventory
Career
Harrington-O'shea
Career
Jackson Vocational Interest Inventory
Career
Kinder Occupational Interest Survey
Career
Minnesota Importance Questionnaire
Career
My Vocational Situation
Career
Occupational Stress Inventory
Career
Ohio Vocational Interest Survey
Career
Strong Interest Inventory
Career
Tempermant and Values Inventory
Career
Vocational Preference Inventory
Career
Vocational Sort Cards
Career
Wide Range Interest-Opinion Test
Career
Work Values Inventory
Career
Self-Directed Search
Career Based on Holland's widely accepted theory of careers, the SDS lets people explore the entire range of occupational possibilities. It frees counselors by eliminating or reducing the time they would normally spend proctoring, scoring, and interpreting a vocational interest inventory. It also provides career guidance to people who have no access to a counselor. Age Range: 11-70 years
Career Assessment Inventory
Career This tool is a vocational interest inventory for individuals who plan to enter careers immediately after high school or to attend community college or trade school. It takes individual's workplace interests and compares them with other individuals currently in one of the 111 careers in their database. There are currently two version of the CAI - The Enhanced Version and the Vocational Version. The Vocational version targets careers in which less than two years of post-secondary training are necessary. The Enhanced Version includes a 370-item report using a 5-point scale for responses. Testing takes 35 to 40 minutes to complete and is done online or pencil-to-paper format. Age Range: 15 years and older
Prescription Drug Use Questionnaire (PDUQ)
Clinicians have increasingly begun to understand that physical dependence and tolerance do not constitute addiction in patients with chronic pain who take opioid analgesics regularly. In the context of sanctioned long-term opioid therapy, therefore, it can be difficult to identify addiction. A 42-item screening tool developed to assist in the recognition of addictive disease in chronic pain patients who use opioid medications to relieve their pain. This screening tool evaluates the pain condition, opioid use patterns, social and family factors, family history of pain and substance abuse syndromes, patient history of substance abuse, and psychiatric history. The interview takes approximately 20 minutes to administer.
Current Opioid Misuse Measure (COMM)
Clinicians recognize the importance of monitoring aberrant medication-related behaviors of chronic pain clients being prescribed opioid therapy. A brief (17 items), self-report measure of current aberrant drug-related behavior, and may serve as a useful tool for those providers who need to document their clients' continued compliance and appropriate use of opioids for pain. Designed to address ongoing medication misuse by asking clients to describe how they are currently using their medication.
Western Personality Inventory (Manson Evaluation and Alcadd Test)
Combines two alcohol-related assessment tests, the Manson Evaluation, and the Alcadd Test. The Manson Evaluation is a widely used test (more than 350,000 administered, according to the Western Psychological Services website), and is designed to identify individuals whose behavior and personality structure indicate they are alcoholics or have serious alcoholic problems, as well as to identify non-alcoholic individuals with personality characteristics often found in alcoholics and who may become alcoholics if placed under certain conditions of stress. It measures seven personality characteristics: Anxiety, Depressive Fluctuations, Emotional Sensitivity, Resentfulness, Incompleteness, Aloneness, and Interpersonal Relations.
Cocaine Craving Questionnaire-Brief (CCQ-Brief)
Consists of 10 items from the CCQ-Now, designed to measure a client's desire to use cocaine. It is intended for use in routine clinical practice. A valid and reliable instrument that can be easily administered as a measure of current cocaine craving.
Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI)
Contains 226 true/false items designed to measure dimensions of the Cloninger's model of personality. It is a more precise and complete version of Cloninger's earlier scale, the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ).
Carroll Depression Scale (CDS-R, CRS)
Created to assess the degree of depression in adults. In its current revised form, this 52 items that made up the initial test have been revised, with items rated "yes" or "no". Assesses baseline symptoms of depression and can evaluate response to treatment over a specific time period. The revised unabridged version of the test is self-rated by the client and takes approximately 20 minutes to complete. Sample questions are: "I feel just as energetic as always" and "I am losing weight", with the client choosing "yes' or "no" in all cases.
Compulsive Buying Scale (CBS)
Designed to screen for buying or shopping addiction, assessing the level of compulsive-like buying behavior in a respondent. The original thirteen question version of this scale uses items built around three dimensions: the tendency to spend reactive aspect post-purchase guilt.
Young Adult Self Report (YASR)
Developed as a self-report extension of the Child Behavior Checklist. An individual age 18-30 rates him/herself on a range of behavior problems.
Blessed Dementia Scale
Dementia Test
Cambridge Mental Disorders of the Elderly Examination (CAMDEX)
Dementia Test
Neuropsychiatric Inventory
Dementia Test
Hamilton Depression Inventory
Depression Test
Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale
Depression Test
Zing Depression Scale
Depression Test
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
Depression Test This 21-question assessment instrument is used to screen for and measure anxiety levels. The client is asked to rate their answer for each question on a scale from 0 (not at all) to 3 (severely). A total score of 0-9 indicates normal to minimal anxiety, 10-18 suggests mild to moderate anxiety, 19-26 means moderate to severe anxiety, and 30-63 puts the individual in the severe anxiety range. This test was developed by Aaron Beck to assess depression and, in conjunction with the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS), to gauge the likelihood of suicide. While research indicates that no mental health professionals have ever actually devised an accurate predictor of physical violence either to oneself or others, the Beck instrument is commonly used for clinical assessment and research. Age range: age 17-80
Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II)
Depression Test This 21-question assessment instrument is used to screen for symptoms of depression. This is a self-administered test that asks the client to answer each question on a scale from 0 (very low) to 3 (very high). A total score of 0-9 (these ups and downs are considered normal), 11-16 (mild mood disturbance), 17-20 (borderline clinical depression), 21-30 (moderate depression), 31-40 (severe depression), and over 40 (extreme depression). Age range: 13-80 years
Carroll Depression Scale
Depression Test This is a self-rating instrument for depression. It uses content from the Hamilton ratings scale. It consists of 61 yes/no questions and assesses symptoms of MDD, dysthymia, and melancholic and atypical symptoms. Age range: 13 years and older
Drug Abuse Screening Test (DAST)
Designed to provide a brief instrument for clinical and non-clinical screening to detect drug abuse or dependence disorders. It is most useful in settings in which seeking treatment for drug use problems is not the client's stated goal. In addition, this assessment provides a general measure of lifetime problem severity that can be used to guide further inquiry into drug-related problems and to help determine treatment intensity.
Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression
Depression Test This questionnaire is designed to be administered by a clinician. It asks 21 questions on a Likert scale and is used to evaluate the effectiveness of depression treatments. The questionnaire rates the severity of symptoms observed in depression such as low mood, insomnia, agitation, anxiety and weight loss. This instrument is presently one of the most commonly used scales for rating depression in medical research. The Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, created by M. Hamilton, is used widely around the world for assessing symptoms of depression. It is the assessment tool of choice when rating depression symptoms in most research studies according to the leading psychiatric journals of 1994. This test is rated by the observer and consists of 17-21 items with a scale of either 0-4, with 0isnone and 4is most severe or 0-2, with 0 is none and 2issevere. Evaluations are based on the clinical interview as well as the information provided by nursing, familial or other appropriate reports. While this test was originally intended for assessment of symptoms only in clients with primary depression, in reality it is used to evaluate depressive symptoms in clients with other primary disorders, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. This test places a strong emphasis on somatic symptoms of depression and is most effective for clients with formidable symptoms. It places particular emphasis on somatic symptoms. The test relies to a great extent on the clinical and interviewing skills of the rater. The HRSD has an excellent research and validity base and is easy to administer. Since its use was intended for individuals with primary depression, and its usefulness is limited in clients with other disorders, when used for the latter clients, it should be paired with additional assessment scales. For example, when it is administered to clients with schizophrenia, it should be paired with a scale that is more geared to that disorder, such as the BPRS or the ANSS. This scale is completed in 20-30 minutes by a trained rater. Age range: 18 years and over
Children's Depression Inventory
Depression Test for Children
Children's Depression Rating Scale
Depression Test for Children
Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS)
Depression Test for Eldery
Depression Outcomes Module
Depression Treatment Outcomes Evaluated Measures different types of treatment utilized for depressive symptoms, the results of treatment, and the client characteristics that affect treatment results. It is available in a computerized version and comes with a user's guide. it is effective for primary caregivers and in mental health settings.
Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity Scale (NITI)
Derived from the Motivational Interviewing Skills Code (MISC), the MITI is a cost-effective instrument for evaluating clinician competence in the use of motivational interviewing. It focuses exclusively on therapist functioning. The MITI is substantially shorter than the MISC and uses only one pass for a 20-minute segment of a therapy session. However, the brevity of this system necessarily excludes measurement of some important process variables, such as client change talk, which are captured in the MISC. Potential training applications for the MITI include self-evaluations by clinicians learning MI, assessment of the effectiveness of teaching strategies for MI, individualized feedback to improve MI competence for clinicians in training, and as a quality check in clinical trials.
Eating Disorder Inventory
Designed as a self-report assessment of psychological and behavioral traits common in anorexia nervosa and bulimia. It is designed for individuals 12 and older and contains 64 items, with a 6 point forced inventory measuring several behavioral and psychological factors common in these eating disorders. May be used as a screening tool, outcome measure or part of a research effort. It is not intended to be a diagnostic device for either disorder. The test contains 8 sub scales, including thinness, bulimia, body dissatisfaction, ineffectiveness, perfectionism, interpersonal distrust, interoceptive awareness, and maturity fears. The EDI is suggested for determining subtypes of anorexia nervosa in clinical or research settings. The EDI is administered in 15-25 minutes.
Simple Screening Instrument for Substance Abuse, Simple Screening Instrument (SSI-SA)
Designed for the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) to encompass a broad spectrum of signs and symptoms for substance use disorders, and particularly to screen patients in mental health settings for co-occurring substance abuse disorders. It is consistent with a biopsychosocial view of substance use disorders, the view adopted by the World Health Organization and the American Psychiatric Association. Has 16 items, of which 14 were derived from existing drug and alcohol screening tools. Available in both interview and self-administered formats. It has been used with a variety of populations including those in correction-based drug treatment programs, treatment for co-occurring disorders, drug courts, adolescent medical patients, and homeless patients.
Child Abuse Potential Inventory Form
Designed primarily as a screening tool for the detection of physical child abuse by protective services workers in their investigations of reported child abuse cases. It is a 160-item, reliable and valid objective self-report screening instrument that can assist protective services workers in making case decisions.
PsyCheck
Designed to assist clinicians in routine screening of mental health problems among drug and alcohol treatment clients. It detects the likely presence of mental health symptoms that are often seen, and can be feasibly addressed, within specialist AOD treatment services. It is not designed to be a diagnostic assessment and will not yield information about specific disorders.
Needle Fixation Profile
Designed to be a clinical tool to help identify needle fixation in individuals and to pinpoint which aspects of needle fixation might be relevant to the injecting drug user (IDU). It is not designed to be a research tool, there is no relevance in a cumulative score, and the items have not been tested for independence. A 10-item scale.
Problem Oriented Screening Instrument for Parents (POSIP)
Designed to identify potential problem areas that require further in-depth assessment. The questionnaire items were derived from POSIT questionnaire items in the following areas: Substance use and abuse (17 items), Mental health (22 items), Family relations (11 items), Peer relations (10 items), Aggressive behavior/delinquency (16 items). Differences in the specific problem areas indicate differences in perception of and/or reporting on those problem areas between the parent/guardian and adolescent, or between two parents/guardians who are filling out the questionnaire together. Not a diagnostic instrument and additional tests are required for full assessment. As a brief problem screen, this tool can be used in a wide variety of settings.
Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI)
Developed by Aaron Beck as part of the Beck Scales to assist the clinician in making balanced and reliable assessments of clients. Test results are useful as a first step in detecting and proper treatment of an affective disorder. Gauges the severity of client anxiety. It was intended to help differentiate between anxiety and depression by measuring anxiety symptoms shared minimally with those of depression. The test addresses physiological as well as cognitive elements of anxiety with a 21 question tool addressing subjective, somatic, or panic-related symptoms. Distinguishes between anxious and non-anxious groups in a variety of clinical settings and is appropriate for use with all adult mental health populations.
Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT)
Developed by Tom Babor and others for the World Health Organization to identify persons whose alcohol consumption has become hazardous or harmful to their health. It is a 10-item screening questionnaire with 3 questions on the amount and frequency of drinking, 3 questions on alcohol dependence, and 4 on problems caused by alcohol. All of the questions are scored using a 5-point Likert scale. Takes under 2 minutes to administer.
Victorian Gambling Screen (VGS)
Developed for use in surveys of the general population to assess the extent of problem gambling and for people presenting for problem gambling treatment or assistance in a clinical setting. The scale has three factors: Harm to Self (gambling-related behaviors and their consequences for the individual gambler) Harm to Partner Enjoyment of Gambling. The scale has 21 items and asks a variety of questions about behaviors over the previous 12 months.
Risk of Alcoholic Relapse Scale (RARS)
Developed to help identify patients at high risk of relapse who need extra aftercare and support after treatment. The instrument uses items taken from the European version of the Addiction Severity Index (EuropASI) and some basic demographic information. Variables examined by this tool include standard units of alcohol per day; economic problems; treatment on the initiative of the clients, their families, or workplace; treatment paid for by the client and/or client's family; previous treatment for alcohol; prescribed psychopharmacological medicine; contemplation of suicide or suicide attempt; concerns about social problems/conflicts; need for help with physical problems. An effective and easily administered tool for identifying potential risk of relapse after an inpatient treatment episode.
Prediction of Alcohol Withdrawal Severity Scale (PAWSS)
Developed to identify patients at risk for moderate to severe alcohol withdrawal who might benefit from pharmacological intervention to prevent further morbidity and mortality. If it can be demonstrated that a patient is at risk for moderate to severe AWS, then a prophylactic treatment plan can be delivered immediately which may halt the development of moderate to severe AWS and potentially serious complications (e.g., seizures, DT, neurodegenerative processes), as well as minimizing the detrimental effects of AWS on neurocognition.
Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale Modified for Heavy Drinking
Developed to reflect obsessionality and compulsivity related to heavy drinking. This instrument has been shown to be sensitive to, and specific for, the obsessive and compulsive characteristics of drinking-related thought and behavior in alcohol-abusing and alcohol-dependent populations. May be a useful screening instrument for the presence of alcohol abuse and dependence. Especially helpful for individuals who abuse or are dependent upon alcohol. It may also be used to differentiate between these individuals and those who do not drink excessively.
Gesell Developmental Schedules
Development - Children
California Psychotherapy Alliance Scale (CALPAS)
Draws from a variety of perspectives, including Freud's concept of the client's affective bond with the therapist, the client's ego capacity for a working alliance, mutual agreement on tasks and goals, and the therapist's role as an empathic listener.
Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale
Dysfunction Relates to Alzheimer's
Behavioral Pathology in Alzheimer's Disease
Dysfunction Relates to Alzheimer's
Cornell Dysthymia Rating Scale
Dysthymia Test
Opioid Risk Tool (ORT)
Early awareness of aberrant medication-taking behavior and subsequent physician action could disrupt behavioral patterns of medication misuse and addiction, and improve treatment outcomes. An office-based tool designed to predict the probability of a patient displaying aberrant behaviors when prescribed opioids for chronic pain. It assesses patients for family and personal history of alcohol; illegal drug and prescription substance abuse; age; history of preadolescent sexual abuse; and specific mental disorders.
Eating Disorders Inventory-2
Eating Disorders Test An instrument based on the self-reporting of symptoms associated with anorexia nervosa and/or bulimia nervosa in individuals of 12 and older. it was intended to assist in diagnosing these eating disorders, but not for use as the sole diagnostic tool for diagnosis of either disorder. The EDI-2 supplies additional data about the behavioral and emotional aspects of eating disorders. It is comprised of a Symptom Checklist, a structured self -report which asks about the subject's present and past eating habits and menstrual history, and is completed in a 15-20 minute time frame. This tool is recommended for use by social workers, psychiatrists, and psychologists who work with young college-age women and men who are thought to have eating disorders. It is also intended to help in attaining greater clinical understanding of eating disorders and related characteristics.
Eating Attitudes Test (EAT)
Eating Disorders Test Designed to help a subject determine if their eating behaviors and attitudes warrant further evaluation. It is one of the most widely-used scales for assessing anorexia nervosa.
Eating Disorder Belief Questionnaire (EDBQ)
Eating disorder clients hold beliefs and assumptions that are specific to their disorder and that differ from "healthy" controls, "normal" dieters, and depressed, non-eating disorder clients. The EDBQ was designed to assess these self-beliefs, as well as the underlying assumptions related to eating disorders that many clients possess. The items in the EDBQ focus on four factors: (1) negative self-beliefs; (2) weight and shape as a means to acceptance by others; (3) weight and shape as a means to self-acceptance; and (4) control over eating.
H-Impairment Index (HII)
Emergency departments (EDs) care for thousands of alcohol-intoxicated individuals annually. Alcohol impairs cognition and perception of pain, making obtaining an accurate history and doing a physical examination difficult for healthcare providers. Impaired patients therefore often require lengthy observations period, which may result in the loss of first-hand observations and other information critical to care. The H-Impairment Index (HII) was developed in an attempt to help healthcare providers in ED settings quantitatively describe the degree of alcohol-induced impairment.
Group Engagement Measure (GEM)
Engagement is important in the treatment of alcohol and other drug problems. The multidimensional Group Engagement Measure is a reliable and valid instrument suitable for measuring engagement for alcohol and other drug treatment groups. It was developed to assess engagement of the individual group members in a group, yielding an individual engagement score. The measure was developed for use in small groups of 3-12 members that have treatment rather than task purposes and that are closed with respect to membership.
Barnes Akathisia Scale
Evaluates Antipsychotic Medication-Related Akathisis - Objective and Subjective
Extrapyramidal Symptom Rating Scale
Evaluates Antipsychotic Medication-Related Symptoms
Burden Interview
Evaluates Feelings of Burden (Caregivers of Demented Elderly)
Structured Family Interview
Family Dynamics
Family Environment Scale
Family Relationships
HIV and Abuse Related Shame Inventory (HARSI)
Given the high prevalence of sexual abuse history among those living with HIV and the documented negative impact of shame on behavioral, physical, clinical, and psychosocial outcomes, there is a great need for reliable and valid measurement instruments to assess shame. This instrument was developed to address that gap. It consists of 31 items intended to assess HIV- and sexual abuse-related shame and the impact of shame on HIV-related health behaviors.
Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF)
Global Functioning Scale
Clinical Global Impressions
Global Functioning Test
Duke Health Profile
Global Functioning Test
Nottingham Health Profile
Global Functioning Test
Relative's Assessment of Global Symptomatology
Global Functioning Test
COOP Charts for Adult Primary Care Practice
Health Test
Short Form Health Survey
Health Test
Self-Control Scale
High self-control appears to be a predictor of more positive outcomes from treatment while low self-control is a significant risk factor for a broad range of personal and interpersonal problems. This relatively brief, paper-and-pencil measure was designed to assess individual differences in self-control. Items in the scale are rated on a 5-point Likert-type scale ranging from 1 (not at all like me) to 5 (very much like me).
Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS)
Hopelessness Test This test was developed in conjunction with the Beck Depression Scale to gauge the likelihood of suicide in adult and adolescent clients of 17 years if age or older. This test builds on the Beck Depression Scale as a means of evaluating hopelessness and suicidal ideation in depressed clients. It is made up of 20 true/false questions that either confirm or deny pessimistic or optimistic statements. The authors of the test underscore that this test should not be used in and of itself as a means of identifying potentially suicidal potential but should be part of a comprehensive clinical examination. The length of time for this exam to be completed is 5-10 minutes.
Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory
Hostility Test
Symptom Check List - 90 - Revised
Intake A 90-item, brief, multidimensional checklist designed to assess psychopathology and psychological distress. It measures 9 primary symptom dimensions and intensities: somatization, obsessive-compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation, psychoticism, PLUS Global Severity Index, positive symptom distress index, and positive symptom total. The SCL-90-R has been employed in many studies to measure therapeutic change during treatment and is recommended as a standard instrument for psychotherapy outcome research. It can also be used as a screening instrument for comorbidity.
Inventor of Common Problems
Intake - College Students
Barratt Impulsiveness Scale
Impulsiveness Test
Motivation to Stop Scale (MTSS)
In relation to motivation to stop smoking, it has been found that intention and desire to stop are predictive of quit attempts, while belief alone that one should stop is not. Developed to incorporate those elements into a simple, single-item measure of motivation to quit.
Problematic Pornography Use Scale (PPUS)
Increased internet use over the past few decades has been accompanied by an increased consumption and societal acceptance of pornography. Both trends may contribute to an increase in self-reported problematic pornography use, including what some have labeled‚"pornography addiction." Using an addiction framework that addresses measures of mental health, attachment and excessive/addictive engagement in sex, and Internet use.
Psychological General Well Being Schedule
Inner Personal State - Subjective Self-Report
Insight and Treatment Attitude Questionnaire
Insight Test
Scale to Assess Unawareness of Mental Disorders
Insight Test
Schedule for Assessment of Insight
Insight Test
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale
Intelligence
Black Intelligence Test of Cultural Homogeneity
Intelligence - African American
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-R
Intelligence Test This scale measures understanding of the spoken word and assesses vocabulary acquisition. The from contains training items and 228 testing items each consisting of four full color pictures as answer options. Since it is administered without reading or writing it can be used for a wide age range and a wide range of impairment levels. Age range: 2 years, 6 months - 90+ years
System of Multicultural Pluralistic Assessment
Intelligence Test This system assumes that test results cannot be divorced from the culture and focuses on comparisons among individuals within a cultural group rather than between cultural groups. It is designed to assess the current level of functioning and the potential of children from Anglo, Chicano, and Black cultural backgrounds. Age range: 5-11 years
Stanford-Binet Test
Intelligence Test This tool is a popular intelligence test is a cognitive ability assessment used to measure intelligence (IQ). The Stanford-Binet measures five factors of cognitive ability: Fluid Reasoning, Knowledge, Quantitative Reasoning, Visual-Spatial Processing, and Working Memory. Each of these factors is tested in two separate domains, verbal and nonverbal. Age Range: Children and adults
Leiter International Performance
Intelligence Test This tool offers a completely nonverbal measure of intelligence that is ideal for use with those who are cognitively delayed, non-English speaking, hearing impaired, speech impaired, or on the autism spectrum. It is individually administered, game-like tasks assessing cognitive, attentional, and neuropsychological abilities. Age Range: 3-75 years
Cattell Infant Intelligence Scale
Intelligence Test for Children
Cognitive Abilities Test
Intelligence Test for Children
McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities
Intelligence Test for Children
Test of Cognitive Skills
Intelligence Test for Children
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children
Intelligence Test for Children
Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence
Intelligence Test for Children
Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children
Intelligence Test for Children This clinical instrument assesses cognitive development. It is known for its effectiveness for diverse audiences including disabilities and cultural differences. The test consists of 18 subtests grouped into core and supplementary. The results should be used in conjunction with other instruments. Age range: 3-18 years
Arthur Point Scale Of Performance Tests
Intelligence Test for Children and Older
Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale
Intelligence Test for Infants and Preschoolers
Orthopedic Handicaps Individual Dencer Developmental Screening Test
Intelligence and Motor Functioning Test
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2)
Personality Test This assessment is a standardized psychometric test of adult personality and psychopathology. Psychologists and other mental health professionals use various versions of the MMPI to help develop treatment plans; assist with differential diagnosis; help answer legal questions; screen job candidates during the personnel selection process; or as part of a therapeutic assessment procedure. Age range: 18 years and older
Young Mania Rating Scale
Mania Test
Manic State Rating Scale
Manic Symptom Test
Smoking-Related Weight and Eating Episodes Test
Many smokers believe that smoking helps them control their weight, and concerns about weight gain can interfere with smoking cessation. This test was created to assist in the measurement of general weight concerns related to smoking. The 10-item SWEET uses four subscales: smoking to suppress appetite, smoking to prevent overeating, smoking to cope with body dissatisfaction, and withdrawal-related appetite increases.
Diagnostic Interview Schedule
Mental Disorder Test
Present State Examination Ninth Edition
Mental Disorder Test
Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI)
Mental Disorders Test
Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale
Mental Disorders Test
Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia
Mental Disorders Test
Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry
Mental Disorders Test
Mini-Mental State Examination
Mental Status Test A brief, easily administered, quantitative measure of cognitive status in adults. It can be used to screen for cognitive impairment (such as Alzheimer's disease), to estimate the severity of cognitive impairment at a given point in time, to follow the course of cognitive changes in an individual over time, and to document an individual's response to treatment. Has demonstrated validity and reliability in psychiatric, neurologic, geriatric, and other medical populations.
Bender-Gestalt Visual Motor Test
Motor Development - Projective This brief test of visual motor integration may provide information about psychological functioning. It is given by a clinician and uses nine index cards with different geometric designs. The client is asked to redraw each design from memory. Age range: 4-85 years
Brulninks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency
Motor Proficiency Test
Scale for Assessment of Negative Symptoms
Negative Symptoms Test - Schizophrenic Patients
Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery
Neurological Exam
Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)
Neuropsychological impairment among clients with substance use disorders (SUDs) contributes to poorer treatment processes and outcomes. However, neuropsychological assessment is not typically an aspect of patient evaluation in SUD treatment programs because it prohibitively time and resource consuming. A brief screening measure designed to identify cognitive impairment among SUD patients. A one-page 30-point test administered in 10 minutes.
Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence
Nicotine Dependence Test Designed to provide an ordinal measure of nicotine dependence related to cigarette smoking. It contains six items that evaluate the quantity of cigarette consumption, the compulsion to use, and dependence. It is useful as a screen for nicotine dependence and as a severity rating that can be used for treatment planning and prognostic judgments. The brevity and easy scoring of this assessment make it an efficient way to obtain clinically meaningful information.
Leyton Obsessional Inventory
Obsession Test
Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale
Obsessive Compulsive Test Rates the severity of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), with emphasis on its ability to reflect changes in severity during treatment. Also provides a sensitive measure of changes in symptom severity and is suited to evaluations of the effects of drug treatments on OCD symptoms.
Life Orientation Test - Revised (LOT-R)
Optimism and pessimism are broad constructs that are generally used to convey individuals' attitudes and expectations about the future (e.g., positively or negatively). Dispositional optimism, as measured by the LOT-R, is a general and stable positive attitude about the future and a tendency to anticipate a favorable outcome to life situations, whereas pessimism is a negative view of the future. The LOT-R assesses trait-like optimism and pessimism via general, dispositional outcome expectancies of the respondent.
Personality Assessment Inventory
Personality Test This inventory of adult personality assesses psychopathological syndromes and provides information relevant for clinical diagnosis, treatment planning, and screening for psychopathology. It uses 344 items are broken down into 22 non-overlapping scales (4 validity scales, 11 clinical scales, 5 treatment scales, and 2 interpersonal scales), and covers the constructs most relevant to a broad-based assessment of mental disorders, including substance abuse. It also includes a Borderline Features scale and an Antisocial Features scale. The PAI provides at least 8 specific substance abuse measures.
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory - Adolescent
Personality Test for Adolescents This instrument consists of 478 true-false items and is designed to assess a wide range of clinical conditions. It is an adaptation of the original MMPI which did not effectively differentiate for different age groups. The MMPI-A has proven to be an effective tool for differentiating delinquent and non delinquent adolescents and aiding in diagnosis of young clients. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescents was intended to assess and evaluate personality and emotional disorders in adolescents ages 14-18. It was developed by J. Butcher, C. Williams, et al, and closely parallels the MMPI-2, which is a broad-based assessment of patterns of personality, emotional and behavioral disorders in adults. The MMPI-A is comprised of 68 scales as follows: 6 Validity Scales, 10 Clinical Scales;28 Harris-Lingoes Sub scales; 3 Si Sub scales; 15 Adolescent Content Scales; and 6 Supplementary Scales. This assessment is most predominantly used in drug and alcohol treatment in research and clinical settings. Age range: 14-18 years
Fear Questionnaire
Phobic Symptoms Test
Iowa Alcoholic Stages Indes (IASI)
Provides a simple procedure for determining the stages in the alcoholic process, for the purpose of rehabilitation program planning as well as for fitting rehabilitation to individual needs.
Acceptance and Action Questionnaire - Substance Abuse (AAQ-SA)
Psychological flexibility is a relatively new clinical construct targeted by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, a behavior analytic treatment incorporating mindfulness and values interventions, among other processes. Poor psychological flexibility has been shown to relate to clinical problems as well as normative life challenges, and efforts to increase psychological flexibility have correlated with improvements for a variety of psychological difficulties, including substance abuse.
Child Behavior Checklist
Psychopathology and Behavior Problems Test for Children This is a common tool for assessing depression in children. The questions are grouped into eight categories: social withdrawal, somatic complaints, anxiety, social problems, thought problems, attention problems, delinquent behavior, and aggressive behavior. The preschool version consists of 100 questions and the school age test consists of 118 questions, all scored on a Likert scale. Age range: 18 months-5 years; 6-18 years
Conners Rating Scale
Psychopathology and Behavior Problems Test for Children 12-17yo
Conner's Rating Scale, Revised
Psychopathology and Behavior Problems in Children
Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale
Psychotic Symptom Test This scale is one of the oldest and most widely used instruments for measuring psychiatric symptoms. This is a clinician administered tool that rates 24 symptoms on a scale of one to seven. Some of these symptoms include anxiety, depression, guilt, self-neglect, and disorientation. A frequently utilized test used to calculate psychotic and non-psychotic symptoms in people with major psychiatric disorders. This test takes 15-30 minutes to complete and is most frequently completed by professional mental health clinicians. Age range: N/A
Quality of Well-Being Scale
Quality of Life
Sickness Impact Profile
Quality of Life Related to Health
Lehman Quality of Life Review
Quality of life - Severely Mentally Ill
Checklist of Interpersonal Interactions
Relationships
Interpersonal Adjective Scales
Relationships
Marital Satisfaction Inventory
Relationships
Checklist of Psychotherapy Transactions
Relationships - Client-Therapist
Client Satisfaction Questionnaire
Satisfaction with Treatment Evaluated
Service Satisfaction Scale
Satisfaction with Treatment Evaluated
Scale for Assessment of Positive Symptoms
Schizophrenic Positive Symptoms Test
Positive and Negative Symptom Scale for Schizophrenia
Schizophrenic Symptoms Test This instrument is a medical scale used for measuring symptom severity of patients with schizophrenia. The PANSS is a standardized, clinical interview that rates the presence and severity of positive and negative symptoms, as well as general psychopathology for people with schizophrenia within the past week. Of the 30 items, seven are positive symptoms, seven are negative symptoms, and 16 are general psychopathology symptoms. Symptom severity for each item is rated according to which anchoring points in the 7-point scale (1 = absent; 7 = extreme) best describe the presentation of the symptom. Age range: 20-68 years
Comprehensive Behavior Rating Scale for Children
School Functioning Test for Children
Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory (SEI)
Self-Esteem Test for Children This tool measures attitudes toward self in the context of pre-post evaluation, individual diagnosis, or classroom screening. It works under the philosophy that the positive or negative attitudes and values by which a person views the self-image and the evaluations or judgments he or she makes about it form the person's self-esteem. The instrument consists of a brief self-report questionnaire and a school form for ages eight to fifteen years or adult form for ages sixteen and above. There is no time limit, but assessment typically takes fifteen minutes. It is hand scorable. Age Range: Ages 8-15 years (school form) and ages 16+ (adult form)
Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale
Social Anxiety Test
Vineland Social Marurity Scale
Social Maturity Assesses the ability of students with developmental disabilities to function socially. The scales assess competencies in determining the level of mental handicap (mild/moderate/profound) and presume adaptive behavior to be the central issue in all evaluations of students with developmental handicaps. It is also presumed that progress in social competencies should be well monitored and programs constantly modified to reinforce the acquisition of social competencies. This behavior assessment is useful for determining the level of disability, identifying skills mastered and not mastered, developing objectives, monitoring the effect of interventions, assessing progress, assessing outcomes, and evaluating programs.
Brief Fear Or Negative Evaluation Scale
Social Phobia Test
Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory
Social Phobia and Anxiety Test
Assessment of Recovery Capital (ARC)
Sociological work on social capital and its impact on health behaviors have been translated into the addiction field in the form of "recovery capital" as the construct for assessing individual progress on a substance abuse recovery journey. This tool uses 50 items assessing recovery strengths, made up of 10 sub-scales of five items each: substance use and sobriety, global psychological health, global physical health, citizenship and community involvement, social support, meaningful activities, housing and safety, risk-taking, coping and life functioning, and recovery experience.
Drug Attitude Inventory
Subjective Effects of Neuroleptic Medication - Schizophrenic Patients
Inventory of Drug-Taking Situations
Substance Abuse Test
Addiction Severity Index (ASI)
Substance Use Inventory This is a semi structured interview designed to provide data regarding aspects of the life of clients that may contribute to their substance-abuse problems. This tool provides a general overview of substance-abuse problems.
SAD PERSONS scale
Suicidality Test
Suicide Probability Scale
Suicidality Test
Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation
Suicidality Test This 20-question true/false assessment instrument measures three aspects of hopelessness: feelings about the future, loss of motivation, and expectations. It measures the client's negative attitude about the future and is designed to be used as a hopelessness construct. It can be used to evaluate suicide risk. Age range: 17-80 years
Pleasant Activities List (PAL)
The 139-item Pleasant Activities List (PAL) is a behavioral questionnaire assessing the frequency and enjoyability of pleasant activities occurring in the natural environment of clients with substance use disorders. Addiction is associated with a decreased level of engagement in pleasant activities. The PAL lists 139 activities, which must be rated for their frequency and enjoyability in the past 30 days. It is based on the widely used Pleasant Events Schedule (PES) and the Leisure Interest Checklist (LIC)
Drug and Drug Problems Perceptions Questionnaire (DDPPQ)
The 22-item DDPPQ was developed to measure mental health professionals' attitudes to working with drug users. One of its possible uses is to help ascertain the training requirements of staff who work with drug users. It may also be used to evaluate the impact of education programs on staff's attitudes. The 22-items in the DDPPQ include statements such as "I feel I have a working knowledge of drugs and drug-related problems," I feel I know how to counsel drug users over the long term," I feel I have the right to ask clients questions about their drug use when necessary," and "I feel there is little I can do to help drug users." Respondents rate each statement on a 7-point Likert scale with 1 corresponding to "strongly agree" and 7 to "strongly disagree."
Alcohol Craving Experience Questionnaire (ACE)
The 27-item assessment designed to measure sensory aspects of craving (imagining taste, smell, or sensations of drinking and intrusive cognitions associated with craving) when craving was maximal during the previous week (ACE-S: Strength, 13 items), and to assess frequency of desire-related thoughts in the past week (ACE-F: Frequency, 14 items).
Mental Representation Scale (MR)
The 6-item MR scale is designed to measure the strength of mental representations (explicit and conscious cognitive processes involving thoughts, planning, anticipation, and self-awareness in regards to future actions), in the context of smoking behavior.
Self-Administered Addiction Severity Index (ASI-Self report)
The ASI Self-Report Form is a self-administered version of the Addiction Severity Index. The ASI assesses seven domains of functioning related to addiction: alcohol use, drug use, medical problems, psychiatric symptoms, family and social problems, legal problems, and employment problems. The self-report form was developed to provide an alternative to the standard ASI interview for monitoring substance abuse patients treatment outcomes. High correlations between interview and self-administered questionnaire composite scores suggest that the self-administered ASI questions address dimensions similar to those assessed by the ASI interview, with less of a burden on clinical staff.
Brigance Diagnostic Inventory of Basic Skills-II (CIBS II)
The BRIGANCE Comprehensive Inventory of Basic Skills II Standardised, or CIBS-II Standardised, is a selection of 45 key assessments. It is divided into two sections that offer a range of information on students' academic skill levels as demonstrated under real-life, everyday conditions. This tool can allow educators to benchmark performance, identify delays in specific academic areas and support referrals. Age range: 5-13 years
Comprehensive Addictions and Psychological Evaluation (CAAPE)
The CAAPE is a comprehensive diagnostic assessment interview providing documentation for substance-specific abuse or dependence diagnoses based on DSM criteria. It covers some of the more prevalent mental health conditions likely to impact recovery from substance abuse or dependence and collects key demographic information associated with prognosis. Covered conditions include substance-specific dependence and abuse, depression, mania, panic/anxiety, PTSD, obsessive-compulsive disorder, psychosis, and a wide range of personality disorders (antisocial, paranoid, schizoid, borderline).
Connors Adult ADHD Rating Scales (CAARS)
The CAARS contains both self-report and observer forms, providing a balanced, multimodal assessment of adult ADHD symptoms at home, at work, and in peer interaction. Both self-report and observer forms use a 4-point Likert-style format and are written at a 6th-grade reading level. In addition, the CAARS contains a Long version, a Short version, and a Screening version. Scoring takes about 10 minutes with the hand scorable, easy-to-use QuikScore Form.
Comprehensive Marijuana Motives Questionnaire (CMMQ)
The CMMQ is a 36-item measure of the motives for marijuana use by young adults. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis of the new measure supported a 12-factor scale, including: 1) Enjoyment, 2) Conformity, 3) Coping, 4) Experimentation, 5) Boredom, 6) Alcohol, 7) Celebration, 8) Altered Perception, 9) Social Anxiety, 10) Relative Low Risk, 11) Sleep/Rest, and 12) Availability.
Conflict Tactics Scales: Parent-Child Version
The CTSPC has been used for decades to evaluate child maltreatment and parent-to-child violence within families. It is composed of 35 items, most focusing on the respondent's behavior with his or her child, and several inquiring about the parent's own experiences as a child. The CTSPC items yield scores for the following areas: nonviolent discipline, physical assault, neglect, psychological aggression, weekly discipline, and sexual abuse. The CTSPC is a quick, practical, targeted, and widely accepted measure, and can be used in a variety of clinical or research areas, including substance abuse.
Co-Occurring Disorders Screening Instrument (CODSI)
The Co-occurring Disorder Screening Instrument (CODSI) is designed to screen for mental disorder among prison inmates with a history of substance abuse. There are two versions of the CODSI, a 6-item version (CODSI-MD) that screens for any mental disorder (CODSI-MD) and a 3-item version (CODSI-SMD) that screens for severe mental disorder. The CODSI-MD has been found to be highly accurate and could be a useful tool to distinguish both men and women in need of further psychiatric assessment and specialized psychiatric services.
Dynamic Appraisal of Situational Aggression (DASA)
The DASA is a structured measure that is used by unit staff to assist them to assess the risk of imminent (within the next 24 hours) aggression by individuals in psychiatric hospitals and other secure settings. It comprises seven items: negative attitudes, impulsivity, irritability, verbal threats, sensitive to perceived provocation, easily angered when requests are denied, and unwillingness to follow directions. Daily assessments using the DASA involve a trained nurse scoring each of the seven items. Ratings typically take less than five minutes per client.
Diagnostic Interview for Gambling Severity (DIGS)
The DIGS assesses gambling involvement by using questions that require participants to indicate whether each scenario regarding their personal gambling behavior is very true, somewhat true, or false (e.g., "Have you frequently thought about ways of getting money with which to gamble?"). The 20-item clinician-delivered interview is based on the 10 diagnostic criteria for pathological gambling set forth by the DSM.
Detroit Test of Learning Aptitude-Fourth Edition (DTLA-4)
The DTLA-4 is among the oldest of the tests of specific mental abilities. The test includes 10 subtests. The results of the subtests can measure both general intelligence and discrete ability areas. The test permits interpretation in terms of current theories of intellect and important behavioral domains. The DTLA-4 is the test of choice for professionals interested in a thorough investigation of a person's cognitive functions. This test not only measures basic abilities, but also shows the effects of language, attention, and motor abilities on test performance. Age range: 6-17 years
Denial Rating Scale
The Denial Rating Scale is a conceptual schema intended for routine use by the many disciplines involved in the treatment of alcoholics. It is based upon the assumption that alcoholism is a disease and that denial is a stable, but changeable mind state. The DRS is used to assess the level of denial after a brief semi-structured interview. The diagnosis of alcoholism must be made first before the DRS is relevant.
Dimensions of Tobacco-Dependence Scale (DTDS)
The Dimensions of Tobacco-Dependence Scale (DYDS) is a 54-item, self-report multidimensional measure of tobacco dependence, sensitive to signs of incipient dependence and relevant to adolescents. The scale's items were selected to tap each of the five hypothesized aspects of incipient tobacco dependence: social, emotional, pleasurable, empowering, and physical.
Evidence-Based Practice Attitude Scale (EBPAS)
The EBPAS is a measure of practitioner attitudes toward evidence-based treatments based on literature about dissemination of new technologies. It is a 15-item self-administered scale, consisting of four theoretically derived subscales: Appeal, Requirements, Openness, and Divergence. The EBPAS assesses willingness to adopt new technologies based on these four factors: 1) the intuitive appeal of the technology, if the provider had enough training to use it correctly, or if it was being used by colleagues who were happy with it; 2) the extent to which the provider would adopt the new treatment if his or her agency, supervisor, or state required it; 3) the individual's openness to change in general and willingness to try or use manual-based treatment; and 4) the new technology's divergence from current practice (operationalized by items related to valuing clinical over research-based treatments). The EBPAS focuses on general attitudes toward change in clinicians' use of intervention strategies
Eating Disorder Inventory-3 (EDI-3)
The Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI) is a self-report questionnaire widely used both in research and in clinical settings to assess the symptoms and psychological features of eating disorders. It measures eating disorder symptoms, i.e., drive for thinness (DT), bulimia (B) and body dissatisfaction (BD), and five more general psychological features related to eating disorders, i.e., ineffectiveness (IN), perfectionism(PE), interpersonal distrust (ID), interoceptive awareness (IA) and maturity fears (MF), asceticism (AS), impulse regulation (IR) and social insecurity (SI). It consists of 91 items and yields 6 composites related to eating disorders. Age range: 13-53 years
Family Tree Questionnaire for Assessing Family History of Alcohol Problems (FTQ)
The FTQ is a brief, easily administered questionnaire which can be used to assess family history of alcohol problems and aids in determining risk for more serious alcohol problems and relapse vulnerability among those with positive family history. The questionnaire provides subjects with a consistent set of cues for identifying blood relatives with alcohol problems by using a family tree diagram for relatives.
Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB)
The Frontal Assessment Battery is a brief neuropsychological tool that detects specific executive cognitive function (ECF) impairments. It is composed of six subtests which evaluate different ECF-related functions. The performance on the six subtests of the FAB gives a composite global score, which evaluates the severity of the dysexecutive syndrome and suggests a descriptive pattern of ECF in a given client. The FAB is an adequate tool for assessing PFC functions and thus is useful for the evaluation of diseases associated with frontal dysfunction such as substance use disorders. The six subtests are: conceptualization, mental flexibility, motor programming, and sensitivity to interference, inhibitory control, and environmental autonomy.
Goldman-Fristoe-Woodcock Test of Auditory Discrimination
The Goldman-Fristoe-Woodcock Test of Auditory Discrimination is a standardized formal assessment that assesses auditory discrimination in two environments - quiet and noisy. It is designed to assess strengths rather than weaknesses in auditory discrimination. Anyone experiencing difficulty on this exam would probably have an auditory-discrimination issue. Age range: 3 years, 8 months through 70+ years
Hilson Adolescent Profile (HAP)
The HAP can be used to assess the presence and extent of adolescent behavior patterns and problems; to help mental health practitioners, school personnel, and administrators in the juvenile justice system identify adolescents at risk. The HAP consists of 310 true-false items, written at the fifth-grade reading level, that cover 16 scales, two of which measure alcohol and drug use. The other content scales correspond to characteristics found in psychiatric diagnostic categories (e.g., antisocial behavior, depression) and psychosocial problems (e.g., home life conflicts).
Heroin Craving Questionnaire (HCQ-45, HCQ-14)
The HCQ was designed according to five theoretically distinct conceptualizations of drug craving: (1) desire to use, (2) intention to use, (3) anticipation of positive outcome, (4) anticipation of relief from withdrawal or dysphoria, and (5) lack of control over use. The 14-item version contains a subset of items from the 45-item version.
Short Acculturation Scale for Hispanics, Marin Short Scale (SASH)
This 12 item, 5-minute scale was developed to compensate for limitations of other acculturation measures by measuring acculturation specifically among Hispanic populations. It is a self-administered, self-report measure with five key variables: generation, the length of residence, self-evaluation, acculturative index, and age of arrival.
Individual Assessment Profile (IAP)
The IAP is an intake instrument developed by the Research Triangle Institute (RTI) used during an admissions process and designed to serve as a screening and assessment tool for individuals seeking drug treatment of all types. The IAP covers many areas of the clients' lives, including a detailed assessment of current and historical drug use patterns. It can be administered by drug abuse treatment program staff with varying levels of training and experience and provides data for the multiple purposes of initially screening clients, planning client assessments and treatment, and providing data to meet numerous reporting requirements (e.g. federal and state agencies, licensing and accreditation bodies, and third-party reimbursement sources).
Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES, -R)
The IES-R contains 7 additional items related to the hyperarousal symptoms of PTSD, which were not included in the original IES. Items correspond directly to 14 of the 17 DSM symptoms of PTSD. Respondents are asked to identify a specific stressful life event and then indicate how much they were distressed or bothered during the past seven days by each "difficulty" listed. Items are rated on a 5-point scale ranging from 0 ("not at all") to 4 ("extremely"). The IES-R yields a total score (ranging from 0 to 88) and subscale scores can also be calculated for the Intrusion, Avoidance, and Hyperarousal subscales. The authors recommend using means instead of raw sums for each of these subscales scores to allow comparison with scores from the Symptom Checklist 90 - Revised SCL-90-R.
Inventory of Parent and per Attachment (IPPA)
The IPPA was developed in order to assess adolescents' perceptions of the positive and negative affective/cognitive dimension of relationships with parents and close friends -- particularly how well these figures serve as sources of psychological security. The theoretical framework is attachment theory. Three broad dimensions are assessed: degree of mutual trust, quality of communication, and extent of anger and alienation.
Internal State Scale (ISS)
The ISS is a well-validated, brief, self-administered measure for symptoms of mania and depression in bipolar disorder (BPD). It consists of five subscales: activation (ACT), a measure of manic symptoms; perceived conflict (PC), a measure of psychopathology; well-being (WB), a measure of depressive symptomatology; depression index (DI); and global mood (GM). The ACT and WB subscales can discriminate mood states in BPD, while ACT and DI correlate well with clinician measures of mania and depression. A Likert-type ISS, requiring less time to score than the visual analog scale version, has recently been developed and validated.
Informed Consent Quiz
The Informed Consent Quiz is a 14-item true/false quiz that assesses in study participants comprehension of basic information and elements of the study provided in the standard consent form. The participant is asked to complete the 14-item quiz to assess his or her knowledge of some of the most basic, but crucial aspects of the trial. After the quiz is completed, the research staff view the participant's responses and clarify any question that the participant did not answer correctly, reviewing relevant sections of the consent form until it is clear the participant understands the issues raised. This quiz might be useful in identifying individuals in need of enhanced consent procedures.
Job and Vocational Attitude Assessment Questionnaire and Interview
The JAVAA-Q (questionnaire) and JAVAA-I (interview) are designed to provide a consistent assessment for evaluating employees' work readiness following a positive test for alcohol or other drugs, after an incident involving substances, or upon completion of treatment for alcohol and other drug addictions.
KeyMath 3 Diagnostic Assessment (KeyMath 3 DA)
The KeyMath-3 DA provides extensive, in-depth coverage across a broad range of mathematical concepts and skills. It has four main uses; it measures math proficiency, measures student progress, supports instructional development, and supports educational placement by providing a variety of normative scores. These functions can be used to identify with accuracy the grade level at which the examinee is functioning. It covers the complete range of math concepts and skills, from early experiences with rote and rational counting through experiences with factoring polynomials and solving linear equations. Age range: Grades K-12
Kuder Career Interests Assessment
The Kuder Career Planning System will ask about your interests, skills, and priorities. The results help clarify self-understanding and generate additional options. It is a three-part Kuder Inventory taking 20 minutes for the interest portion. You can stop and save while taking the inventory or complete all three assessments in a single session. There are no right or wrong answers; because this inventory is about you, it is best to be very honest in your responses. Age Range: 5-18+ years
Keeds Dependence Questionnaire (LDQ)
The LDQ measures substance dependence. Dependence has been formulated into a purely psychological understanding so that pathophysiological elements of the dependence syndrome, namely tolerance and withdrawal, are translated into psychological terms and become universal. The instrument is capable of measuring the change in dependence and can, therefore, be used to follow treatment progress and evaluate treatment outcomes.
Life Stressors and Social Resources Inventory-Youth Form (LISRES-Y)
The LISRES provides a unified framework to measure ongoing life stressors and social resources and their changes over time. It can be used to describe a person's life context, to monitor stability and changes, to compare individuals and groups, and to examine how life events affect an individual's situation and functioning. Age Range: 12-18 years and 18+ years
Level of Care Index - 2R (LOCI-2R)
The LOCI-2R is a comprehensive means for guiding assessments and documenting treatment placement and planning information for the six assessment dimensions of the ASAM PPC-2R. The LOCI-2R is designed for use in the initial assessment, subsequently continued service reassessments, and transfer or discharge evaluations. All levels of care defined by the ASAM PPC-2R are covered. The LOCI-2R is not a psychometric tool, but rather a means of guiding assessment and summarizing findings from evaluation interviews.
Parenting Stress Index, and Parenting Stress Index-Short Form (PSI, PSI-SF)
The PSI is a parent self-report, 101-item questionnaire, designed for the early identification of parenting and family characteristics that fail to promote normal development and functioning in children, children with behavioral and emotional problems, and parents who are at risk for dysfunctional parenting. It can be used with parents of children as young as one month. The PSI focuses intervention into high-stress areas and predicts children's future psychosocial adjustment.
Marijuana Ladder (ML)
The Marijuana Ladder is an adapted version of the Contemplation Ladder (Beiner and Abrams, 1991). It is a measure of motivation to change marijuana use in adolescents during a time of no access to marijuana (i.e. in jail/prison). The ML is a visual analog that uses ten "rungs" (with associated statements). Respondents use each rung to indicate where they are along the stages of change. There are three rungs related to the stage of pre-contemplation (e.g. "I enjoy using marijuana and have decided never to change it"), three rungs for the stage of contemplation (e.g. "I sometimes think about the way I use marijuana, but I have no plans to change it"), two rungs for the stage of preparation (e.g. "After release I definitely plan to change my marijuana use ).
Marijuana Motive Measure (MMM)
The Marijuana Motives Measure assesses marijuana use motives, significant predictors of marijuana use. It is adapted and extended from M. L. Cooper's Drinking Motives Questionnaire (see related instruments, below). The MMM is a 25-item questionnaire assessing five motives for marijuana use: enhancement (to get high, e.g.), coping (to forget worries, e.g.), social (to be sociable, e.g.), conformity (so that others don't make fun of me for not using, e.g.), and expansion ("I use marijuana because it helps me be more creative and original," e.g.).
Mental Health Screening Form-III (MHSF-lll)
The Mental Health Screening Form-III (MHSF-III) is a 17-item instrument designed as a mental health-screening tool for clients seeking admission to substance abuse treatment programs. Preliminary examination of the instrument has shown it to be reliable and valid.
Methamphetamine Experience Questionnaire (MEQ)
The Methamphetamine Experience Questionnaire provides useful information on drug use variables that contribute to paranoia commonly associated with methamphetamine use. The link between methamphetamine use and symptoms of paranoia is well-known, but separating it from paranoia attributable to other causes has been challenging. Since there are some similarities between cocaine and methamphetamine use, the MEQ was adapted from the Cocaine Experience Questionnaire (CEQ) to assess lifetime methamphetamine-induced paranoia.
Nicotine Dependence Syndrome Scale (NDSS)
The NDSS is a 19-item multidimensional, self-report assessment of nicotine dependence. The authors developed items based on Edwards' idea of a Dependence Syndrome; these items address five different dimensions of nicotine dependence: Drive (craving and withdrawal, and subjective compulsion to smoke); Priority (preference for smoking over other reinforcers); Tolerance (reduced sensitivity to the effects of smoking); Continuity (regularity of smoking rate); and Stereotypy (invariance of smoking).
NEEDS (Adult Evaluation)
The NEEDS assessment is a computer-assisted, 130-question, comprehensive adult substance abuse evaluation. The instrument measures a broad range of behaviors and attitudes. It focuses on the stability of significant areas of a person's life, as well as examining past and current behavior. The NEEDS provides a profile of the individual's functioning in these significant areas.
NEO Personality Inventory-3 (NEO-3)
The NEO-PI-3 is a comprehensive measure of the five major domains of personality (Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to Experience, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness) and the six facets that define each domain. The NEO-PI-3 can be used in counseling and clinical settings with adolescents and adults, business and industrial settings, and for psychological research, including studies in sport psychology and recreation. Age Range: 12+ years
Native American Cultural Values and Beliefs Scale (NACVBS)
The Native American Cultural Values and Beliefs Scale is a pilot version of a 12-item mental health assessment instrument that assesses three dimensions of American Indian/Alaska Native values and beliefs: 1) the importance, 2) the frequency of practicing, and 3) the amount of distress caused by not practicing traditional values and beliefs. Response items are rated on five-point Likert scales (Not Important At All to Very Important, e.g.). Answers from each item are summed together to achieve a total score.
Negative Alcohol Metacognitions Scale (NAMS)
The Negative Alcohol Metacognitions Scale is a clinical assessment tool of negative metacognitive beliefs about alcohol use. It relates to two sets of metacognitive beliefs: that alcohol use is uncontrollable and that it is harmful to cognitive functioning.
Neonatal Abstinence Scoring Form (NASF)
The Neonatal Abstinence Scoring Form is a brief, one-page instrument assessing signs and symptoms of central nervous system, metabolic/vasomotor/respiratory, and gastrointestinal system disturbances in the neonate. Each item is assessed every two hours over a single day. Items include "high pitched cry," mild tremors, "nasal stuffiness," and "excessive sucking."
Opiate Addiction Severity Inventory (OASI)
The OASI is a short instrument measuring the severity of drug dependence, which has a Chinese version available. The instrument has 12 items, with four subscales: Physical Dependence, Psychological Dependence, Health Injury, and Social Function Injury. Each item is rated on a 4-point Likert scale and the severity of dependence is assessed by summing up the item scores.
Practical Adolescent Dual Diagnostic Interview (PADDI)
The PADDI is a comprehensive diagnostic assessment interview designed specifically for adolescents. It documents both DSM substance abuse/dependence diagnoses and major mental health conditions. The PADDI emphasizes the mental health conditions most likely to impede recovery from substance abuse or dependence. In addition, it can be used to detect major depressive episodes, manic episodes, panic or anxiety attacks, PTSD, obsessions and compulsions, conduct disorders, paranoid personality traits, dependent personality traits, victimization (sexual, physical, emotional), or suicidal and homicidal ideation.
Paradigm Developmental Model of Treatment Scale (PDMTS)
The PDMTS was developed to be a rapid assessment scale for alcohol- or drug-abusing clients so that counselors can determine where clients are in the change process and make interventions accordingly. Items for the PDMTS are based on the conceptual model of the Paradigm Development Model of Treatment, and include statements such as "I cannot manage my drinking/drug use," "Sobriety has completely transformed my way of life," "I now sponsor other people in AA," and "I now believe I am an alcoholic/addict."
Mortimer-Filkins Test
This scale was designed specifically to identify problem drinkers among DUI offenders and, therefore, has been used widely in DUI education and treatment programs. Contains 54 scored questions, 4 non-scored questions, and a somewhat complicated scoring procedure.
Patient's Assessment of Own Functioning Inventory (PAOFI)
The Patient's Assessment of Own Functioning Inventory (PAOFI) is a self-report measure of cognitive concerns. It was designed to evaluate a patient's sense of his or her functional capacity in everyday activities. The items are grouped by rational analysis into subscales concerning memory, language and communication, use of hands, sensory-perception, higher level cognitive and intellectual functions, and work/recreation.
Perceived Coercion Questionnaire (PCQ)
The Perceived Coercion Questionnaire (PCQ) is a comprehensive, easily administered, and reasonably short measure of substance users' perceptions of coercion into drug and alcohol treatment arising from a number of different sources. It consists of 30 items equally divided across six subscales: Work, Legal, Family, Health, Finance, and Self. The 30 items represent reasons why a particular subject may have "felt pressured to enter this drug/alcohol treatment program,"
Perception of Legal Pressure Questionnaire (PLP)
The Perception of Legal Pressure Questionnaire (PLP) is designed to assess the presence and effect of coercive elements in mandated treatment. Legal pressure exists along a continuum (from low to high pressure) and is mediated by the perceptions of the mandated client, thus, the perception of legal pressure is one of a constellation of individual factors (including treatment readiness and motivation) that affects treatment retention and other outcomes.
Posttraumatic Stress Diagnostic Scale-Self-Report (PDS)
The Posttraumatic Stress Diagnostic Scale (PDS) is a 49-item self-report instrument designed to aid in the detection and diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The structure and content of the PDS assessment mirror the DSM diagnostic criteria for PTSD. The PDS was developed specifically to fill the need for a brief self-report instrument that would help provide a reliable diagnosis of PTSD and for quantifying the severity of PTSD symptoms.
Psychological Screening Inventory-2 (PSI-2)
The Psychological Screening Inventory-2 (PSI-2) is a brief mental health screening device ideal for situations where professional time and resources may be at a premium. It is easy to administer and interpret and is appropriate for adolescents and adults. The PSI-2 identifies people who might benefit from more extensive examination and professional attention. Composed of 139 items, the PSI-2 can usually be completed in 15 minutes and is suitable for individual administration on SIGMA's online testing platform. The PSI-2 can be used in community clinics, hospitals and medical facilities, high school and college counseling offices, referral agencies, courts and correctional facilities, and other mental health screening settings. Age Range: 16+ years
Questionnaire on Smoking Urges, Brief Questionnaire on Smoking Urges (QSU, QSU-Brief)
The Questionnaire of Smoking Urges (QSU) is a 32-item scale designed to measure cravings elicited by abstinence from cigarette smoking. Items in the scale were generated to represent four theoretically and clinically distinct conceptualizations of smoking urges (1) desire to smoke, (2) anticipation of positive outcomes from smoking, (3) anticipation of relief from nicotine withdrawal or from withdrawal-associated negative affect, and (4) intention to smoke.
Recovery Attitudes Questionnaire (RAQ-7)
The RAQ is based on a conceptualization of recovery as an individual process of finding new meaning in life despite the presence of psychiatric symptoms and their consequences. The scale was developed to compare attitudes towards recovery in different respondent groups, e.g. clients, professionals, relatives, and the general population; in particular, it addresses the supposition that people can recover from serious mental illnesses.
Risk Behavior Survey (RAS)
The RBS is a brief interviewer administered HIV risk assessment that is used to determine the risk at which the participant puts herself for contracting HIV through their drug and sexual behaviors over the last thirty days. It is an abbreviated version of the Risk Behavior Assessment originally developed as part of a NIDA Cooperative Agreement. The RBS collects information on drug use; drug injecting; sexual activity; condom use; exchange of sex for drugs, money or both; and HIV-test history. The RBS takes 6-10 minutes to complete.
Screen for Childhood Anxiety Related Disorder (SCARED)
The SCARED is a child and parent self-report instrument used to screen for childhood anxiety disorders including general anxiety disorder, separation anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and social phobia. In addition, it assesses symptoms related to school phobias. The child and parent versions of the SCARED have moderate parent-child agreement and good internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and discriminant validity, and it is sensitive to treatment response. Age Range: 8-18 years
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)
The SDQ is a brief behavioral screening questionnaire for children and teens ages 3-16 that asks about 25 attributes, some positive and others negative. The 25 items are divided between 5 scales of 5 items each, generalizing scores for conduct problems, hyperactivity, emotional symptoms, peer problems, and prosocial behavior. All but the last are summed to generate a total difficulties score. Three versions exist: the self-report for ages 11-17, the parent or teacher form for ages 4-10, and the parent or teacher form for ages 11-17. The SDQ can be used for clinical assessment, evaluating outcomes, epidemiology, and research.
Screening of Dependence Scale (SDS)
The SDS is a short, easily administered instrument developed to provide a brief measure of the psychological aspects of dependence experienced by users of various types of illicit drugs. It is a measure of compulsive use; its five items relate to an individual's preoccupation and anxieties about their own drug taking, as well as feelings of impaired control over their drug use.
Slosson Intelligence Test (SIT)
The SIT provides a quick, reliable index of intellectual ability, including for those who are visually impaired or blind. The SIT-R3 can be used to help determine whether further in-depth evaluation is needed, providing a tentative diagnosis of cognitive ability or confirming other findings. The SIT-R3 contains Six Verbal Cognitive Domains: General Information (GI), Comprehension (CO), Quantitative (QN), Similarities & Differences (SD), Vocabulary (VO), and Auditory Memory (AM). Age range: 4-65 years
Scale of Ethnic Experience (SEE)
The Scale of Ethnic Experience (SEE) is a 32-item, self-report questionnaire that can be used across ethnic groups. Respondents are first asked to self-identify their ethnicity and then respond to statements related to one's experience of ethnicity on a 5-point Likert-type scale (ranging from strongly agree to strongly disagree). The SEE was designed to be a comprehensive multidimensional measure of the experience of ethnicity.
Self-Efficacy List for Drug Users (SELD)
The Self-Efficacy List for Drug Users (SELD) measures self-efficacy in a number of closely defined situations. In the SELD, 19 situations are described for each of which the respondent states how confident he or she is to be able to remain abstinent in that situation. The total scale consists of three subscales with the first, Environmental Factors (EF) describing 6 different situations that can exert external pressure to use drugs and/or alcohol. The second scale, Negative Moods (NM), describes 8 different situations in which psychological distress may lead to drug use. In the third scale, Positive Moods (PM), 5 situations are described in which positive psychological experiences may lead to drug use.
Significant Other Checklist
The Significant Other Checklist attempts to systematically assess the economic, behavioral, and psychological problems encountered by family members of drug users. This 70-item checklist has reasonable initial subscale reliability estimates, assesses problem domains that are relevant to family members of drug users, and is able to identify important group similarities and differences among family members of drug users. Areas covered include relationship problems; emotional problems; financial difficulties; health concerns; involvement with legal and other government agencies; physical abuse; and lifestyle problems.
Smoking Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (SEQ-12)
The Smoking Self-Efficacy Questionnaire is designed to measure the confidence of current and former smokers in their ability to abstain from smoking in high-risk situations. It is a two-dimensional 12-item scale. The two six-item subscales measure confidence in the ability to refrain from smoking when facing internal stimuli (e.g. feeling depressed) and external stimuli (e.g. being with smokers). The SEQ-12 is a valid and reliable scale, with applications in both research and clinical settings.
Stimulant relapse Risk Scale (SRRS)
The Stimulant Relapse Risk Scale is a multidimensional scale to measure relapse risk for stimulants among Japanese drug abusers. It is based on the Marijuana Craving Questionnaire. The final version of the scale includes 30 items which use five constructs as drug-reuse cues: 1) compulsivity (inability to control stimulant-induced emotion); 2) negative expectancy for drug use (restraining relapse, anxiety due to negative outcome from drug use, and acknowledgment of social support); 3) clear intention of drug use (planning to use a drug, and intentional search for stimulants); 4) positive expectancy for drug use (anticipation of positive outcomes from reuse); and 5) emotionality problems (not only feelings and moods before relapse but also a revival of memory).
Commitment to Change Algorithm (CA)
The clinical importance of matching counseling procedures to the client's readiness for change is increasingly recognized in the addictions treatment field. The Commitment to Change Algorithm is a simple assessment tool used to determine a client's stage of change. It was developed in line with simpler behavioral stage algorithms that have been used in the smoking and weight control areas and features two variants: the Commitment to Change Algorithm for Alcohol (CCA-A) and the Commitment to Change Algorithm for Drugs (CCA-D). The CCA classifies clients into one of five stages of change (precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, or maintenance), based on recent drinking or drug use, reported intention to change, and recent quit-change attempts.
Functional Assessment Interview (FAI)
The goals of functional assessment are to develop an in-depth understanding of the client's adjustment across a broad range of life domains and to gather specific information about the client's substance use behavior, such as patterns of use and high-risk situations. The Functional Assessment Interview is a lengthy, semi-structured interview conducted over a series of meetings with information collected from a variety of sources. The instrument is divided into five main areas, as well as two sections titled "Goals" and "Strengths," covering the core topics of comprehensive assessment: background information, psychiatric illness, physical health and safety, psychosocial adjustment, and substance use.
Objective Opiate Withdrawal Scale (OOWS)
The is a brief interview and observation tool used to assess opioid withdrawal signs and symptoms. It contains 13 physical observable signs, rated present or absent based on a time period of observation by the patient or the rater. The signs include yawning, rhinorrhea, piloerection, lacrimation, mydriasis, tremors, hot/cold flashes, restlessness, vomiting, muscle twitches, abdominal cramps, and mild, moderate, or severe anxiety. It takes less than ten minutes to both administer and score.
Wender Utah Rating Scale (WURS)
The original version of the scale included 61 items answered by the adult client recalling his or her childhood behavior, each with five possible responses scored on a Likert-type scale ranging from 0 (not at all or very slightly) to 4 (very much). Items include symptoms of ADHD such as "afraid of things,"irritable," "sloppy, disorganized,"headaches," bad handwriting," and "trouble with mathematics or numbers."
Internet-Related Problem Scale (IRPS)
The purpose of the IRPS is to measure the level of problems an individual is having due to his/her Internet use. It consists of 20 questions based on the adapted DSM criteria for substance abuse, covering issues of tolerance, withdrawal, craving, and negative life consequences.
Denver Developmental Screening Test-II (Denver-II)
The purpose of the tests is to identify young children with developmental problems so that they can be referred for help. The tests address four domains of child development: personal-social (for example, waves bye-bye), fine motor and adaptive (puts block in cup), language (combines words), and gross motor (hops). Age Range: 0-6 years
Adolescent Drug Abuse Diagnosis (ADAD)
The purpose of this instrument is to assess substance use and other life problems, to assist with treatment planning, and to assess changes in life problem areas and severity over time. This is a 150-item structured interview that looks at the following content areas: medical status, drug and alcohol use, legal status, family background and problems, school/employment, social activities and peer relations, and psychological status. The interviewer uses a 10-point scale to rate the client's need for additional treatment in each content area. These severity ratings translate to a problem severity dimension (no problem, slight, moderate, considerable, and extreme problem). The drug use section includes a detailed drug use list and a brief set of items that looks at specific areas of drug involvement (e.g., polydrug use, attempts at abstinence, withdrawal symptoms, use in school).
Treatment Seeking Scale (TSS)
The reasons why alcohol and drug abusers seek treatment may be related to motivation for change as well as to treatment compliance and outcome. This scale asks a client how influential each of 11 possible reasons were in their decision to change their alcohol or drug use. Each reason is rated on a scale from 0 ("Not an important reason") to 4 ("Extremely important reason"). Sample reasons include: "I have weighed the pros and cons of continuing to drink or use drugs,"I was warned to stop using by my husband, wife, or someone close to me," and "I have hit rock bottom.
Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES)
The scale measures state self-esteem by asking the respondents to reflect on their current feelings. This measure is considered to be reliable and valid and has been translated into numerous languages (including Persian, French, Chinese, Italian, Spanish, and more) and is used extensively on cross-cultural studies in up to 53 different nations.
Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation-Outcome Measure (CORE-OM)
The self-report "outcome measure" in the CORE system (there is also a therapist completed assessment form called the CORE-A). The CORE system was designed to provide a routine outcome measuring system for psychological therapies, and some areas of psychiatry. In creating the CORE, the authors wanted to make sure the measures would be pragmatic and user-friendly, have acceptable psychometric properties, be used on a broad basis (they may be copied freely as long as they are not changed), be easy to score, and be easy to interpret.
Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS)
There are two primary dimensions of mood: positive and negative affect. The two mood scales that comprise the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) have been created to measure these dimensions. Positive affect reflects the extent to which a person feels enthusiastic, active, and alert. Negative affect is a general dimension of subjective distress and unpleasable engagement that subsumes a variety of aversive mood states, including anger, contempt, disgust, guilt, fear, and nervousness, with a low Negative Affect being a state of calmness and serenity.
Vineland Adaptive Behavioral Scales (VABS)
These scales are a valid and reliable test to measure a person's adaptive level of functioning. These forms aid in diagnosing and classifying intellectual and developmental disabilities and other disorders, such as autism spectrum disorders and developmental delays. The focus of this particular test is the measurement of the adaptive behaviors, including the ability to cope with environmental changes, to learn new everyday skills and to demonstrate independence. Age range: Birth-90 years
Marijuana Withdrawal Symptoms Checklist (MWSC)
This 10-item scale uses items taken from previously published human laboratory studies of marijuana withdrawal. Participants rate each symptom on a scale ranging from 0 (not at all) to 3 (severe). Symptoms include craving, irritability, nervousness, depression, anger, and strange dreams, and other demonstrated withdrawal symptoms.
Mother-Short Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (M-SMAST)
This 13-question variations on the Short Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test (SMAST) assess an individual's mother's lifetime alcohol abuse and can be used to identify children of alcoholics for both clinical and research purposes. This assessment tool has strong psychometric properties. It is a pencil-and-paper self-administered questionnaire and takes under 10 minutes total to administer and score and interpret.
Obsessive Compulsive Cocaine Use Scale (OCCUS)
This 14-item scale was developed to help measure obsessive-compulsive thoughts related to the acute craving state for cocaine-dependent individuals. It is based on the Obsessive Compulsive Drinking Scale (OCDS), a self-report measure of obsessive thoughts about drinking, essentially rewording items from that scale to reflect cocaine use instead.
Wisconsin Smoking Withdrawal Scale (WSWS)
This 28-item scale was developed to contain reliable subscales tapping the major symptom elements of the nicotine withdrawal syndrome. It uses seven internally consistent subscales: anger, anxiety, sadness, concentration, sleep, hunger, and craving. This assessment is sensitive to smoking withdrawal and predictive of smoking cessation outcomes, and its brevity makes it useful in both the clinical and research context.
Brief Biosocial Gambling Screen (BBGS)
This 3-item assessment is based on the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders criteria for pathological gambling. This scale is extremely practical for clinical application because it uses only 3 items and they are easy to ask, answer, and include in all modes of interviewing, including self-administered surveys.
Brief Individual Readiness for Change Scale (BIRCS)
This 4-item assessment is intended to provide practitioners and program administrators with a brief screening tool to gauge quickly whether individuals providing services are prepared to implement research- or evidence-based practices. Instead of focusing on the recipients of the practice techniques as is more often found in current literature, this assessment focuses on the providers. It is based on the belief that the successful provision of any practice technique rests with those who provide the services, the individual practitioners, as shaped by their skills, resources, and beliefs.
Clinician and Supervisor Survey (CSS)
This 40-item self-report survey was developed as part of a NIDA National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network protocol to obtain information on: demographics; levels of experience, education, and credentials; personal recovery; counseling orientation; previous MET/MI training; and beliefs about treatment, clients, and the recovery process. For counseling orientation, clinicians are asked to rate on a 5-point Likert scale the extent to which each of seven common addiction counseling approaches describes their typical approach. The approaches listed include: 12-step/disease concept, relapse prevention/cognitive-behavioral therapy, reality therapy, motivational interviewing, Rogerian/client-centered, Gestalt/experiential, and psychodynamic/interpersonal therapy. For treatment beliefs, clinicians were asked to either rate on a 5-point Likert scale their agreement with several treatment-related beliefs.
Chronic Illness Problem Inventory (CIPI)
This 65-item scale was developed to help document accurately client's specific problems in areas of physical limitations, psychosocial functioning, sleep, eating, health care behaviors, and marital adjustment. Respondents rate each item as to how strongly it applies to them (0 = not at all, 4 = very much). Items include such things as, "I have difficulty falling asleep," "I have some financial worries," "I need to use too many medications," "I am afraid I may become or am already dependent on medications,"I have difficulty doing household chores," I feel doctors have not taken my problems seriously," and "No treatment has ever helped my problem."
Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire (ZKPQ)
This 89-item scale was developed to measure the dimensions that constitute the Alternate Five-Factor Model (AFFM) proposed and described by Zuckerman and colleagues. These dimensions include: Activity-Energy, Aggression-Hostility, Sociability, Neuroticism-Anxiety, and Impulsive Risk Taking. This five-factor model is recommended for research involving personality correlates because it provides maximal specificity at no loss in reproducibility across gender and populations.
Carrow Elicited Language Inventory (CELI)
This assessment aims to provide a measure of a child's productive control of grammar by eliciting imitations of sentences. It aims to identify children with language disorders and to determine which specific structures are contributing to the child's inadequate linguistic performance. The test consists of 52 phrase and sentence stimuli presented for a child to imitate directly. Age Range: 3-8 years
IPAT Depression Scale
This assessment is a 40 item questionnaire that is used to diagnosis depression. It is based on 7 depression factors including such traits as somatic complaints, feeling of guilt and excessive self-criticism. Age Range: 16+ years
The Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery (LNNB)
This assessment is used to screen clients with neurological impairment. It evaluates learning, experience, and cognitive skills. The LNNB has 269 items divided among fourteen scales, which are motor, rhythm, tactile, visual, receptive speech, expressive speech, writing, reading, arithmetic, memory, intellectual processes, pathognomonic, left hemisphere, and right hemisphere. The test is used to diagnose and determine the nature of cognitive impairment, including the location of the brain damage, to understand the patient's brain structure and abilities, to pinpoint causes of behavior, and to help plan treatment. Age range: 13 years and older
CAGE Adapted to Include Drugs (CAGE-AID)
This assessment modifies the CAGE questions for use in screening for drugs other than alcohol. Focuses on lifetime use; although individuals who are drug dependent may screen positive, individuals who are at risk may not.
Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale (FACES)
This assessment was developed to evaluate the adaptability and cohesion dimensions in family interactions. The most current version, FACES IV itself, is comprised of six family scales-two balanced and four unbalanced-of 7 items each, making 42 items. The FACES IV Package includes the Family Communication Scale and Family Satisfaction Scale, to round out its Circumplex Model, and making a grand total of 62 items. Age Range: N/A
Quick Drinking Screen
This brief screening instrument contains four questions about drinking: (1) On average in the last 12 months, how many days per week did you drink? (2) When you did drink, on average, how many standard drinks would you have had in a day? (3) How many times in the past 12 months have you had 5 or more standard drinks on one occasion? (4) In the past 12 months, what was the greatest number of standard drinks you consumed in one day? Although this tool does not provide detailed drinking information (e.g. patterns), it might be a preferred measure, in particular, situations, such as telephone screenings, gathering follow-up data when clients do not want to spend much time in an interview, etc. Appears to be an expedient measure ideal for gathering summary drinking data both at assessment and at follow-up.
Millon Adolescent Personality Inventory (MAPI)
This instrument can be used for diagnosis and treatment planning in clinical, correctional, and educational settings by psychologists, psychiatrists, and school counselors, as well as other mental health and guidance professionals. It is often used to help evaluate and treat adolescent delinquents. The Millon Adolescent Personality Inventory (MAPI) was developed by Theodore Millon, Catherine Green, and Robert Meagher, Jr. as an objective assessment of personality, expressed concerns and behavioral elements in adolescents ages 13-18. It is stated by the authors of this test that use with any other age group is not appropriate and will lead to distortions of diagnostic data. This assessment used 157 true/false questions to evaluate adolescents who possess at least a 6th-grade reading level. Most adolescents are able to complete this exam in 20 minutes or less. The test is recommended for use by mental health professionals, guidance and school counselors to assist their identification of, predictions about and understanding of different psychological attributes associated with adolescence. It is professed to identify certain personal difficulties, such as peer conflicts, confusions about self, fear of academic failure. It also helps identify subjects who may have troubles in acting out, underachievement in academics and attendance issues. Age-appropriate language is used on the test. and the authors address issues of concern to teenagers. Age range: 13-18 years
Weekly Self-Help Questionnaire (WSH)
This instrument is designed to assess the frequency of attendance at a number of self-help groups (both 12-step - e.g., AA, NA, CA, CMA, and non-12-step - e.g., Rational Recovery, Secular Organization for Sobriety) and the degree of participation in self-help activities in each of these groups. At each assessment, participants are asked to indicate whether they have an AA/NA/CA sponsor. They are also asked how many days in a given time period that they attended Speaker meetings and Step meetings (e.g., attendance measures), how many days that they have attended meetings in which they have had duties (e.g., setting up, making coffee), spoken at meetings, met with sponsors or other group members outside of the meetings, phoned or have been phoned by sponsors or other group members, read 12-step recovery literature, and worked on any of the steps (e.g., measures of participation).
Violence Risk Screening 10 (V-RISK-10)
This instrument is designed to be a brief and easy-to-use screening tool for use in short-term psychiatric settings. It is a two-page screen with 10 questions regarding a patient's violence, threats, substance abuse, major mental illness, personality disorder, lack of insight into illness, expressions of suspicion, lack of empathy, unrealistic planning, and future stress situation. It also includes an overall clinical evaluation for risk (low/medium/high) and clinician suggestion for follow-up.
Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test
This instrument is used to investigate the measurement of the perpetual motor and cognitive development in minors over the age of 4. It consists of different designs the subject then copies onto a blank piece of paper. This 10-minute test is normally used on all different cases including those of the mentally-challenged, psychotic and normal nature in educational, researching, and clinical surroundings. The test may provide information regarding a subject's development and neuropsychological functioning. It is not intended to be used as a full neuropsychological exam.
Peabody Individual Achievement Test-Revised (PIAT-R)
This instrument offers a standardized assessment of an individual's level of academic performance in reading, mathematics, spelling, written expression, and encyclopedic knowledge. The PIAT-R can be used as a wide range screening measure of academic achievement for children in Kindergarten through grade 12. It is also useful for identifying individual strengths and weaknesses. Age range: 5-22 years
HIV Transmission Risk Behaviors Screener (TRB-Screener)
This instrument provides an effective method to identify HIV-positive individuals in need of focused prevention resources to reduce sexual and drug-use-related transmission risk behaviors (TRBs). The intention of the authors was to evaluate the extent to which known predictors of sexual TRBs (self-efficacy, treatment optimism, engagement with medical care, awareness of risky behaviors, substance use, and relevant behavioral and socio-demographic characteristics) combined with additional attitude-related assessments to identify those who had engaged in recent sexual TRBs and may therefore be at risk of additional transmission risk behaviors.
Organizational Functioning and Readiness for Change (ORC)
This instrument, developed by Texas Christian University, examines relationships between organizational functioning and client performance. It focuses on motivation and personality attributes of program leaders and staff, institutional resources, and organizational climate as an important first step in understanding organizational factors related to implementing new technologies into a program. The ORC includes 115 items scored on a 5-point Likert scale (agree-disagree), representing 18 content domains.
Mini-Battery of Achievement (MBA)
This is a brief, wide-range test of basic skills and knowledge including reading, math, writing, and factual knowledge (science, social studies, and humanities). All items are scored "1" for a correct response and "0" for an incorrect response. Raw scores are determined by adding the number of correct answers on a subtest. Basal and ceiling levels are determined for all subtests, shortening the required testing time. Age Range: 4 years and older
Driving Angry Scale (DAS)
This scale was designed to provide a measure of driving anger for the purposes of research on health risk. Two versions were developed: a 33-item scale with six subscales (Hostile Gestures, Illegal Driving, Police Presence, Slow Driving, Discourtesy, and Traffic Obstructions) and a 14-item short form. Items describe potentially anger-provoking scenarios that might occur while someone is driving. Respondents rate each item as to the degree to which the situation would anger them.
Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery (HRNB)
This is a fixed set of 8 tests designed to assess brain and nervous system functioning. It evaluates a variety of types of brain function and can be helpful in pinpointing brain injuries and affected areas. It is clinically administered and can take a very long time, so attempts have been made to create effective short-form versions. The Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Test Battery is a battery of tests that provide a comprehensive evaluation of a subject's brain- behavior functioning in order to assess problems in neuro cognitive function related to a number of different brain disorders. The evaluation indicates an individual's cognitive strengths and weaknesses as associated with neurological dysfunction, ascertains how certain neurological and psychiatric factors contribute to a client's presenting issues, and assists in forming conclusions regarding present and future functioning. Also, the results of this evaluation can be directly incorporated into a general neuro cognitive remediation strategy. The purpose of the battery is to offer the clinician a source of data that would serve to infer the nature, location and extent of physiological changes to the brain that may be responsible for impaired functioning that is deduced from the information provided by the test battery. The test battery is comprised of 10 tests that distinguish between subjects with and without documented cortical damage. The test has been shown to provide strong data favoring clearer brain damage localization with the HRNTB for acute lesions than for chronic neuropathology. The battery is claimed to evaluate elements of memory, abstract thinking, language, sensory-motor synthesis, perceptual imperfections and motor agility. This battery is considered a better than sufficient neuropathological tool for use in clinical and research settings. The manual relies on the body of research over the past 30 years with the battery for interpretation and standards. Age range: 15 years and older; children's versions are available
HEADSS for Adolescents (HEADSS)
This is an interview instrument used for finding out about a variety of issues in adolescents' lives. Items in the instrument address such domains as Home, Education and employment, Activities, Drugs, Sexuality, and Suicide/Depression. The section on Drugs is used at the start of an SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment) session for adolescents.
Cocaine Effect Expectancy Questionnaire (CEEQ)
This measure consists of a series of items describing the effects of cocaine on which subjects are asked to rate their agreement or disagreement, according to their own experiences, using a 5-point Likert scale. Has five scales (4-17 items per scale): Global Positive, Global Negative, General Arousal, Anxiety, and Relaxation and Tension Reduction.
Legal Risk Behaviors while Using Alcohol (LRBA)
This measure is intended to provide a reliable and valid assessment of the relative frequency of incidental behaviors college students engage in while drinking alcohol that may increase or decrease their risk of encountering legal consequences. The LRBA consists of three factors: Risky Behaviors, Protective Behaviors, and Private Settings.
Sequenced Inventory of Communication Development-Revised (SICD-R)
This popular diagnostic test evaluates and quantifies communication skills of normal and developmentally delayed children functioning. It has two major sections: Receptive and Expressive. The inventory is individually administered, usually in 30 to 75 minutes. The Test Manual documents validity and reliability, and the Instruction Manual presents administration directions. Age range: 4 to 48 months
The Neuropsych Questionnaire (NPQ)
This questionnaire addresses two important clinical issues: how to screen patients for a wide range of neuropsychiatric disorders quickly and efficiently, and how to acquire independent verification of a patient's complaints. Available over the Internet in both adult and pediatric versions (the adult version consists of 207 items). Scores patient and/or observer responses in terms of 20 symptom clusters: inattention, hyperactivity-impulsivity, learning problems, memory, anxiety, panic, agoraphobia, obsessions and compulsions, social anxiety, depression, mood instability, mania, aggression, psychosis, somatization, fatigue, sleep, suicide, pain, and substance abuse. Suitable for initial patient evaluations, and a short form is appropriate for follow-up assessment.
Areas in Need of Help Questionnaire (ANH)
This questionnaire measures the participant's average ratings of the extent to which they feel they have experienced problems across 10 life areas (alcohol use, illicit drug use, physical health, psychological-emotional issues, partner-child relationships, relationships with parents, relationships with friends or others, finances, legal issues, and housing) and their current need for help in those areas.
Health Dynamic Inventory (HDI)
This relatively brief, easy-to-use, self-report questionnaire was developed to evaluate mental health functioning. It evaluates three aspects of mental disorders described in the DSM: (1) the experience of emotional or behavioral symptoms that define mental illness, such as dysphoria, worry, angry outbursts, low self-esteem, or excessive drinking (2) the level of emotional distress related to these symptoms (3) the impairment or problems fulfilling the major roles of one's life being exhibited. It comprises three major scales: Morale, Symptoms, and Impairment.
Drinking Refusal Self-Efficacy Questionnaire-Revised (DRSEQ-R)
This revised version of the DRSEQ assesses a person's belief in his/her ability to resist alcohol (see related entry for DRSEQ). The 19-item scoring represents a more stable and robust method of examining drinking refusal self-efficacy than the original 31-item questionnaire. The factor structure is sound in community drinkers, students and people dependent on alcohol, indicating the cross-sample reliability and generalizability of the questionnaire. The revised scoring method was successfully able to discriminate between non-clinical and alcohol-dependent drinkers and negative correlations were observed with alcohol consumption and severity of alcohol dependence. supporting the concurrent validity of the revised questionnaire. The shortened scoring provides a more efficient means of assessing drinking refusal self-efficacy.
Wyatt Adulthood Sexual Abuse Questions
This scale is used to record information about a subject's sexual abuse history since the age of 18. For each incident/rape/rape attempt, a variety of questions are asked and record (on audiotape and written). Questions include the age the subject was when the incident occurred, as well as the age of the attacker, what happened during the incident, whether the subject or their attacker had been drinking, what the subject's emotional response to the attack had been, whether they told anyone about the incident (and if not, why not), and what the initial and lasting physical, emotional, and sexual effects.
Sexual Symptom Assessment Scale (S-SAS)
This scale patterned after theGambling Symptom Assessment Scale (G-SAS), was developed to assess compulsive sexual behavior. Converting the G-SAS into the S-SAS was accomplished by removing references to gambling and replacing these with references to problematic sexual behavior.
Kreek-McHugh-Schluger-Kellogg Scale
This scale was designed to quickly test for addiction to cocaine, heroin, and alcohol simply by asking about the time in the person's life when he or she was drinking or using these substances the most. It takes about five minutes to administer, and only three answers influence the client's score: the duration of the heaviest period of use, the frequency of use during that time, and the amount typically consumed at one sitting during that time. While most other brief tests for drug or alcohol addiction ask about the negative consequences of substance abuse, such as neglect of work or family responsibilities, this assessment tool is the first to focus solely on the intensity of alcohol or substance use, an important contributor to addiction.
Women with Alcohol Problems
This scale was developed as part of a University of Washington study. The purpose of this survey is to understand more about the difficulties and needs of women who have problems because of alcohol. It asks women a series of questions about their school history, occupational history, activities in which they have recently engaged, drinking problems they may have had, possible drug usage, sexual experiences, and possible police record. The scale takes approximately one hour to administer.
High Risk of Alcohol Relapse (HRAR)
This scale was developed from a study of relapse following inpatient alcoholism treatment in a cohort of male US veterans and includes 3 parameters empirically developed to estimate the risk of alcoholism relapse following an index evaluation. Three items (duration of heavy drinking, the usual number of daily drinks, and the number of prior alcoholism inpatient treatment experiences.
Self-Efficacy Questionnaire for Marijuana (SEQ)
This scale, based on the Situational Confidence Questionnaire (Annis 1988), is a measure on which clients rate their ability to resist the temptation to smoke marijuana in a variety of different situations. The measure features 20 statements about situations that might create a temptation to smoke marijuana, scaled from 1 (not at all confident) to 7 (extremely confident). Items include things like, "Doing monotonous work," "Wanting to feel more confident," "Enjoying a pleasant social situation," and "Being bored, with nothing to do."
Clinical Exit Survey
This scale, developed for an ancillary investigation of data from National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network protocols CTN-0018 and CTN-0019 (Reducing HIV/STD Risk Behaviors: A Research Study for Women/Men in Drug Abuse Treatment), is intended to assess professional clinical staff's attitudes and perceptions of participating in research within their clinic setting. The brief, self-administered, paper-and-pencil survey contains an initial set of questions about demographics, clinic role (e.g., "What do you perceive as your primary job at the clinic?"), research study role (i.e., direct (counselor, supervisor) vs. no direct role), and prior experience delivering HIV/STD prevention or counseling. Using a 5-point Likert-type scale (1=Strongly Agree; 5=Strongly Disagree)
Blood-Borne Virus Transmission Risk Assessment Questionnaire (BBV-TRAQ)
This test assesses the frequency with which injecting drug users (IDUs) have participated in specific injecting, sexual and other risk practices in the previous month that may expose them to blood-borne viruses. The instrument consists of 34 questions that make up three sub-scales measuring the frequency of current injecting risk behaviors (20 questions), sexual risk behaviors (8 questions) and other skin penetration risk behaviors (6 questions).
Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI)
This test was designed for conducting empirical research on psychological androgyny. It is also used for workshops and counseling on gender awareness. It contains sixty personality characteristics. Twenty of the characteristics are stereotypically feminine (e.g., affectionate, gentle, understanding, sensitive to the needs of others) and twenty are stereotypically masculine (e.g., ambitious, self-reliant, independent, assertive). It also contains twenty filler items (e.g., truthful, happy, conceited). A short-form version of this scale, using 30 items, is also available.
Academic Competence Evaluation Scales (ACES)
This tool assesses the skills, attitudes, and behaviors of students that contribute to school success. Research using the ACES has indicated that the skills, attitudes and behaviors contributing to academic competence fall into one of two domains: Academic Skills or Academic Enablers. Age Range: 5-12 years
Draw-a-Person Test
This tool is a psychological projective personality or cognitive test used to evaluate children and adolescents for a variety of purposes and was first known as the Goodenough Draw-a-Man test. It is scored based on the details included, not the artistic ability, and is used to measure and predict intelligence. This system analyzes fourteen different aspects of the drawings, such as specific body parts and clothing, for various criteria, including presence or absence, detail, and proportion. Age Range: 2-18 years
Hiskey-Nebraska Test of Learning Aptitude (H-NTLA)
This tool is designed for use with deaf and hearing-impaired children. This is the only test of ability which is standardized on a hearing-impaired population. As the test is administered via verbal or pantomimed instructions, it is appropriate for use with speech-impaired, mentally retarded or other subject populations that may be penalized by verbal intelligence tests. Age Range: 3-16 years
Brief Alcohol Screening Instrument for Medical Care (BASIC)
This very brief questionnaire (6 items) screens for alcohol use disorders and for at-risk drinking. It combines items from different questionnaires, three items from the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT-C) and three from the Lubeck Alcohol Dependence and Abuse Screening Test (LAST). It is a paper-and-pencil questionnaire that is sensitive enough to be implemented into daily routine care, in general, medical care settings.
Group Climate Questionnaire (GCQ)
This well-established measure is designed to assess the members' perceptions of the affective qualities of the group as a whole. It has been shown in numerous studies to provide a valid prediction of group therapy outcomes. The scale consists of 12 items rated on a 7-point Likert scale and yields scores on three dimensions: Engagement (the degree of cohesion and work orientation in the group), Avoidance (the degree to which individuals avoid responsibility for change), and Conflict (interpersonal conflict and distrust).
Theory of Planned Behavior Scale (TPB)
Treatment readiness is a decisive limiting factor in treatment initiation, and hence ultimately its effectiveness. This 9-item tool was developed as a measure for predicting substance abuse treatment completion, based the theory of planned behavior, a general model of human behavior suggesting that the probability of engaging in a given behavior is proximally determined by the intention to engage in that behavior, itself a function of one's attitude, subjective norm, and perceived control regarding the behavior.
Suicide Attempt Self-Injury Interview (SASII)
Used to assess the topography, context, and intent of suicidal and other self-injurious behaviors. The interview is intended to assess past behavior, not to predict the risk of future suicide attempts. Uses a "timeline follow back" procedure, which has been shown to have high reliability in measuring alcohol use and is widely used in measuring other domains. Six screening questions are included at the beginning of the interview to identify how many intentional self-injurious episodes had occurred in a designated time frame.
