Re: measures to assess preschoolers' mental health functioning

[erez3@xxxxxxxx (Erez C Miller)]

On Mon, 2 Mar 1998 16:10:42 -0500 (EST) Sandra Bishop
<bishop@CDMAS.med.yale.edu> writes:
>Hello--
>
>I am a postdoc doing research in an intensive family preservation 
>program.
>Although the program's interventions focus on the parent(s), we would 
>like
>to assess the children's mental health functioning (in order to 
>identify
>and meet their service needs).  The children are primarily 
>preschool-aged
>(2-5).  We will be having the mother and the family support worker
>complete a Child Behavior Checklist.  Does anyone know of any 
>instruments
>which we can use to assess child mental health functioning directly 
>(i.e.
>a child self-report or some other method which doesn't involve parent- 
>or
>other-report?).  I know of measures for older children, but none for
>children in the 2-5 year-old range.  Thank you for your help.

Have you considered the Kohn's Problem Checklist? It's a teacher-report
measure, and was used in the EICS study (Shonkoff et al., 1992 SRCD
Monographs) with children ages 3 and 5.
Also, you and other subscribers to this list may be interested in
checking out the following web site for future searches for measures:
Buros' Mental Measurement Yearbook. You can search any of the instruments
you're looking for by name, author, or keyword. the site will direct you
to the volume and test number to look for in their Mental Measurement
Yearbook - saves a lot of time when you have to look for a review or
critique on a particular measure.
http://www.unl.edu/buros/

Best of luck with your work.

Erez Miller
Dev. Psych.
Boston College

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