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Devereux Scales of Mental Disorders (DSMD) Kit

The Devereux Scales of Mental Disorders (DSMD™) help to indicate whether a child or adolescent is experiencing or is at risk for an emotional or behavioural disorder,

DSMD is especially designed for treatment planning and outcome evaluation.

Benefits

  • Evaluate behavior in a variety of settings.
  • Compare results to a large national sample.
  • Support analysis for treatment planning and evaluation of treatment effectiveness.

Features

The 111-item child form and the 110-item adolescent form cover a full range of psychopathology, including externalizing, internalizing, and critical pathology disorders.

  • Consistently excellent composite scale reliabilities.
  • Content validity based on DSM-IV and mapping of specific items to corresponding DSM-IV criteria.
  • Factorially and logically derived scales reflect major dimensions of psychopathology.
  • Validity studies utilizing inpatient and outpatient clinical groups.
  • Any adult who has known the child for four weeks may serve as a rater.
  • Same form is used for parent and teacher raters, with separate norms provided for each.

€590.40

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    A degree from an accredited 4–year college or university in psychology, counseling, speech–language pathology, or a closely related field plus satisfactory completion of coursework in test interpretation, psychometrics and measurement theory, educational statistics, or a closely related area; or license or certification from an agency that requires appropriate training and experience in the ethical and competent use of psychological tests.
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    (Can purchase all products available from PAR.)
    All qualifications for level B plus an advanced professional degree that provides appropriate training in the administration and interpretation of psychological tests, or license or certification from an agency that requires appropriate training and experience in the ethical and competent use of psychological tests.

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