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CLINICAL ASSESSMENT OF BEHAVIOUR
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The
CAB is an objective, comprehensive, and highly reliable behavior rating
scale that
is closely aligned with current diagnostic criteria found in
the
DSM-IV-TR™ and IDEA. Standardized on a large representative national
sample, the CAB assists in the
identification of children and
adolescents across a wide
age range who are in need of behavioral,
educational, or psychiatric treatment
or intervention. It enables
professionals
to identify behaviors associated with educationally
relevant exceptionalities.
The CAB offers a balanced theoretical framework of both competence-based
qualities and problem-based concerns for the CAB scales and clusters,
making
it useful for evaluating adaptive strengths and clinical risks in
children and adolescents. The CAB assesses
behaviors that reflect
current societal concerns
and issues about youth and their behavior
(e.g., bullying, aggression, executive function, gifted and talented).
It includes both Parent
and Teacher Rating Forms, thus providing a
multisource, multicontext assessment of
children's and adolescents'
behaviors.
Features of the CAB
• Provides three separate Rating Forms: the Parent Extended Rating Form
(CAB-PX),
with a total of 170 items, and the Parent Rating Form (CAB-P)
and
the Teacher Rating
Form (CAB-T), each with a total of 70 items.
• Provides Parent (ages 2-18 years) and Teacher (ages 5-18 years) Rating
Forms with corresponding items, thus allowing both parents and teachers
to contribute equally to the evaluation of target behaviors.
• Requires only an 8th-grade reading level for completion.
• Rating Forms are quick to administer and can be efficiently scored by
the
CAB Scoring
Program (CAB-SP).
• Normative data includes 2,114 parent ratings and 1,689 teacher
ratings.
Based on scale and cluster internal consistency (alpha) coefficients in
the .88
and higher
range across the three CAB Rating Forms, examiners
can expect
to use the CAB-PX, CAB-P,
and CAB-T Rating Forms with
confidence to assist in making important diagnostic or
intervention
decisions for individual children
and adolescents. Scale and cluster
reliabilities
also were consistently high
across age level, gender, and
race/ethnicity. Test-retest reliability coefficients across the three
CAB forms ranged from .77-.95 with a mean test-retest interval
of
17.6-19.3 days. Interrater reliabilities indicate a high level of
agreement between parents
and teachers (.44-.56) and even higher
agreement between pairs of parent
raters (.70-.90). Finally, the CAB-PX,
CAB-P, and CAB-T scales and clusters demonstrate good evidence of
validity based on test content, factor analytic studies, convergent and discriminant evidence,
and concurrent validity studies across various
clinical groups, including conduct/disruptive behavioral disorders,
cognitive dysfunction, and ADD/ADHD.
Scales for Differentiating Emotional Disturbance From Social
Maladjustment
The Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA; 1997) requires
treatment
for students
with emotional disturbance because it is viewed
as an educationally related disorder. The Act further requires that
emotional disturbance be differentiated from social maladjustment,
which
is not considered to be an educationally related disorder and,
therefore, requires no mandated services under the law. In response to
the difficulties faced by many clinicians in distinguishing emotional
disturbance from social maladjustment, the CAB can now be used
to help
differentiate these conditions for students between the ages of 2 and 18
years
(i.e., Grades Pre-K through 12).
These new scales appear in Appendix H of the CAB Professional Manual.
They also are available free by contacting one of our Customer Support
Specialists (1.800.331.8378).
The new scales, Emotional Disturbance (ED)
and Social Maladjustment (SM), are discussed
in terms of item
assignments for each of the CAB Forms (CAB-PX, CAB-P, and CAB-T) and
norms development based on the same T-score metric as the other CAB
scales. A case example is included and interpretation is discussed.
Discrepancy score tables are included
for each of the CAB Forms that
further differentiate Emotional Disturbance and Social Maladjustment.
The CAB Scoring Program (CAB-SP) also has been updated
to provide
T
scores for both scales by age and gender, and each scale can be
considered in light of its respective qualitative classifications.
Free CAB Scoring Program (CAB™-SP) Is Included!
The CAB-SP calculates raw and T scores and percentiles for all scales
and clusters. After
paper-and-pencil administration, the parents' and/or
teachers' responses
are entered
manually using the CAB-SP. The software
offers easy and rapid data entry for CAB items, calculation of all
scores, and generation of a complete Score Report and profile for each
of
the three CAB Rating Forms.
Click here for a CAB PowerPoint presentation. To download the
presentation,
right-click on
this link, and select "Save Target As" to
save, or drag the link onto your desktop.
Requirements: Windows® 2000/XP/Vista™; NTFS file system; CD-ROM drive
for installation; Internet connection or telephone for software
activation
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