Showing posts with label Behavior. Show all posts
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Thursday, December 22, 2022

Behavioral Emotional & Social Skills Inventory

 



Assessment name: Behavioral, Emotional, and Social Skills Inventory (BESSI)

Scale overview: The Behavioral, Emotional, and Social Skills Inventory (BESSI) helps identify five groups of skills associated with health, happiness and success.

 

Response Type: Items are rated on a scale of agreement from

Scales:

As of the date of this writing, the researchers identified five skill categories also called domains. There are 32 skills called facets linked to domains.

1.    Self-management skills, used to pursue goals and complete tasks

2.    Social engagement skills, used to actively communicate with other people

3.    Cooperation skills, used to make and keep positive social relationships

4.    Emotional resilience skills, used to regulate emotions and moods

5.    Innovation skills, used to learn from new ideas and experiences

There are also compound skills that combine skills from multiple domains.

There are several versions of the BESSI, which yield various degrees of specificity.

The BESSI-20 quickly assess skills at the domain level as does a slightly longer BESSI 45.

Longer forms provide more details. The 192 item version includes the full 32 skill facets.

 

Reliability and Validity

See Soto et al. (2022) for an extensive presentation of the psychometric properties of the BESSI within different samples. The researchers present the results of factor analyses and correlations of the domains and facets with the Big Five Personality Traits. High levels of alpha values are also reported. Overall, alpha values ranged from .80 to .94 as reported in Study 4.

 

Availability:

The BESSI may be taken online at this link:  http://www.sebskills.com/the-bessi.html

The BESSI was written in American English. There is a German version with other translations pending.

Permissions:

The BESSI is free for non-commercial purposes as follows:

The BESSI is freely available for non-commercial purposes, such as scientific research, program evaluation, and personal use. You do not need to ask permission for these uses. However, permission is required for any commercial use of the BESSI. If you are interested in obtaining permission to use the BESSI for a commercial purpose, then please contact Dr. Christopher Soto.

 

Reference for the scale

Soto, C. J., Napolitano, C. M., & Roberts, B. W. (2021). Taking skills seriously: Toward an integrative model and agenda for social, emotional, and behavioral skills. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 30, 26-33.

Napolitano, C. M., Sewell, M. N., Yoon, H. J., Soto, C. J., & Roberts, B. W. (2021). Social, emotional, and behavioral skills: An integrative model of the skills associated with success during adolescence and across the life span. Frontiers in Education, 6, 679561.

BESSI and wholistic assessment

The facets within the BESSI domains relate to the domains of human functioning common to psychological research and practice. For example, by referring to the colorful BESSI chart, you can see by the domain names and sample skills how they fit with five domains of the SCOPES model of human functioning if we omit the physiological domain.

SELF, COGNITION, OBSERVABLE BEHAVIOR, EMOTION, SOCIAL

 

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NOTICE:

The information about scales and measures is provided for clinicians and researchers based on professional publications. The links to authors, materials, and references can change. You may be able to locate details by contacting the main author of the original article or another author on the article list.

 

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Friday, October 21, 2022

ADHD - The Vanderbilt Assessment Scales

 


Scale name: NICHQ Vanderbilt Assessment Scales- for Child ADHD diagnoses

Scales overview: The NICHQ Vanderbilt Assessment Scales are behavior rating scales used by clinicians as part of the diagnosis of ADHD in children. The scales assess ADHD symptoms and other conditions that may occur with ADHD or should be ruled out.

Response Type: Most of the items are rated on a 4-point scale of frequency: Never, Occasionally, Often, Very Often

Scale items

The parent scale: Items 1 to 47 assess symptoms and items 48 to 55 assess performance.

The teacher scale: Items 1 to 35 assess symptoms, items 36 to 38 assess academic performance, and items 39-43 assess classroom performance.

There are parent and teacher follow-up forms available.

The NICHQ provides scoring guidelines in their scale packet.

Reliability:

Bard et al. (2013) reported coefficient alpha values from .91 to .94 on the parent form and test-retest reliability was above .80 for the total scale scores.

Wolraich et al. (2013) reported KR20 values between .85 and .94 for the teacher form.

Validity:

Bard et al. (2013) reported a 4-factor structure on the parent form after removing conduct items that were not frequently endorsed.

Wolraich et al. (2013) reported a 4-factor structure for the teacher form. The scores on the teacher form were positively correlated ( > .72) with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire.

Scale Use

The scales may be used by clinicians who are licensed or certified to make diagnoses in children. The scores are part of the diagnostic process which includes an interview, psychosocial history, and observations. Psychologists may administer other tests as part of a comprehensive assessment.

The Vanderbilt scales assess or screen for four dimensions of the wholistic SCOPES model of functioning:

Cognition e.g., attention, learning

Emotion and mood e.g., anger, sadness, anxiety

Observable behavior 

Social context e.g., relationships, functioning in home and school contexts


Availability:

National Institute for Children’s Health Quality https://www.nichq.org/sites/default/files/resource-file/NICHQ-Vanderbilt-Assessment-Scales.pdf

 

References for the scale

 

Bard, D. E., Wolraich, M. L., Neas, B., Doffing, M., & Beck, L. (2013). The psychometric properties of the Vanderbilt attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder diagnostic parent rating scale in a community population. Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP34(2), 72–82. https://doi.org/10.1097/DBP.0b013e31827a3a22

Wolraich, M. L., Bard, D. E., Neas, B., Doffing, M., & Beck, L. (2013). The psychometric properties of the Vanderbilt attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder diagnostic teacher rating scale in a community population. Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP34(2), 83–93. https://doi.org/10.1097/DBP.0b013e31827d55c3

 

Wolraich, M. L., Lambert, W., Doffing, M. A., Bickman, L., Simmons, T., & Worley, K. (2003). Psychometric properties of the Vanderbilt ADHD diagnostic parent rating scale in a referred population. Journal of pediatric psychology28 (8), 559–567. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsg046

 

Reference for using scales in research:

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Reference for clinicians on understanding assessment

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Resource Link:  A – Z Test Index

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NOTICE:

The information about scales and measures is provided for clinicians and researchers based on professional publications. The links to authors, materials, and references can change. You may be able to locate details by contacting the main author of the original article or another author on the article list.

 

Links to Connections

Checkout My Website   www.suttong.com

  

See my Books

  AMAZON      

 

  GOOGLE STORE

 

FOLLOW me on

   FACEBOOK   Geoff W. Sutton  

  

   TWITTER  @Geoff.W.Sutton

 

   PINTEREST  www.pinterest.com/GeoffWSutton

 

Read published articles:

 

  Academia   Geoff W Sutton   

 

  ResearchGate   Geoffrey W Sutton 

 

 

 

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