NDACAN Measure Details
Child Behavior Checklist for Ages 1½-5 (CBCL 1.5-5)
Description:
This instrument is not project derived (see bibliographic citation above). The Child Behavior Checklist–Preschool and Child Behavior Checklist–School-Age are part of the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA) and use information collected from parents to assess the behavior and emotional and social functioning of children. The preschool forms assess children ages 18 months to 5 years and. Primary caregivers rate children on each item, indicating whether it is not true, somewhat or sometimes true, or very or often true, now or in the past six months. The 99 items in the preschool CBCL are organized into two broad groupings of seven syndromes. The internalizing group includes subscales that assess whether the child is emotionally reactive, anxious/depressive, withdrawn, or has somatic complaints. The externalizing group includes subscales that assess whether the child has attention problems or exhibits aggressive behavior. A third set of items on the preschool version assesses whether the child has sleep problems. The items are also organized into five Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)-oriented scales (American Psychiatric Association 2000). Scales are normed on a national sample of 700 children. Both versions of the CBCL are widely used and have received an assessment rating of “A-Reliability and Validity Demonstrated” from the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare.
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