ASEBA - The Achenbach System Of Empirically Based Assessment
The ASEBA Approach
The Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA) offers a comprehensive approach to assessing adaptive and maladaptive functioning. Developed through decades of research and practical experience to identify actual patterns of functioning, the ASEBA provides professionals with user-friendly tools.
Numerous studies demonstrate significant associations between ASEBA scores and both diagnostic and special education categories. You can relate ASEBA directly to DSM-5 diagnostic categories by using the DSM-oriented scales for scoring ASEBA forms.
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Why ASEBA?
- Sets the standard for integrated multi-informant assessment
- Culturally diverse worldwide applications; translations in over 100 languages
- Multi-informant assessment for ages 1½-90+
- Multicultural scoring for ages 1½-90+
- Widely used in mental health services, research, schools, medical settings, child and family services, HMOs, public health agencies, child guidance, and training programs
- Comparable scales across wide age ranges
- Used in national surveys to track development and predict competencies and problems
- Supported by extensive research on service needs and outcomes, diagnosis, prevalence of problems, medical conditions, treatment efficacy, genetic and environmental effects, and epidemiology
- For a comprehensive picture of the ASEBA, see The Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA): Development, Findings, Theory, and Applications.