Conners 4th Edition

Conners 4th Edition (Conners 4™) is the digital revision of a leading Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) assessment providing a thorough evaluation of associated symptoms and ADHA impairments, as well as common co-occurring problems and disorders, in youth 6 to 18 years old.

Overview

Conners 4th Edition (Conners 4™) is the highly anticipated revision of the Conners 3rd Edition (Conners 3®), a leading Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) assessment.

Conners 4 provides a comprehensive assessment of symptoms and impairments associated with ADHD and common co-occurring problems and disorders in children and youth aged 6 to 18 years. The Conners 4 is an inclusive and fair measure that builds on the long history and strengths of the multi-informant Conners Rating Scales. Conners 4 will be an invaluable part of your ADHD assessment battery with updated norms, improved workflows, and new and improved features.

New features

Improved efficiency and usability

Now fully digital, Conners 4 helps you gain valuable time with customizable reports, online scoring for better data visualization, easy inventory management, a digital manual, and printable forms.

Increased accuracy of assessment

Conners 4 updates allow you to:

• Address critical concerns with Severe Conduct and Self-Harm Critical Items and a Sleep Problems Indicator
• Measure impairments related to ADHD symptoms in the school, social, and family domains
• Evaluate new content areas and common co-occurring problems such as emotional dysregulation, depressed mood, and anxious thoughts
• Apply a dimensional approach with an additional DSM Symptoms Scale - Total ADHD Symptoms

Superior quantification of severity

Conners 4 helps you evaluate the severity of symptoms by comparing the child's results to an ADHD Reference Sample (children/youth already diagnosed with ADHD).

Enhanced collaboration with parents

Conners 4 facilitates collaboration with parents using an enhanced Parent Feedback Handout (easy-to-understand explanation and summary of results).

Increased fairness and inclusivity

Conners 4 improves fairness and inclusivity with gender-inclusive language, culturally sensitive items, and items and scales that show no evidence of measurement bias regarding gender, race/ethnicity, country of residence, or parental education level.

More informed intervention

Conners 4 allows evaluation of a youth's relative strengths and weaknesses using Within-Profile Comparisons for more informed intervention.

Easier administration

Take the guesswork out of your inventory management with a new way to order Conners 4 uses. You can purchase a general Conners 4 use and apply it across any Conners 4 form while generating reports.

Comparing the Conners 3 and Conners 4

• Content updates (new and revised scales)
  • Emotional Dysregulation; Depressed Mood; Anxious Thoughts
  • Impairment and Functional outcome scales
• Response Style Analysis updates
• Item level updates
  • Cultural sensitivity
  • Gender-neutral language
  • New item level indicators for self-harm and sleep problems
• Norm updates
  • New normative samples
  • ADHD reference sample
• Better Structural alignment with the upcoming Conners Adult ADHD Rating Scales to facilitate a lifespan approach to ADHD assessment and monitoring

Benefits to Conners 4

• Revision of the Conners 3
• Multi-informant: Parent, Teacher and Self-report forms are aligned to facilitate/compare information across informants
• Conners-4 data can be used for:
  • Preliminary screening purposes
  • Aid in clinical decision making for diagnosis; education eligibility or intervention, treatment planning and monitoring
  • Suited for research purposes, particularly as a primary or secondary outcome in clinical trials
• Severe Conduct and Self-Harm Critical Items and a Sleep Problems Indicator
• Evaluates new content areas and common co-occurring problems such as Emotional Dysregulation, Depressed Mood, and Anxious Thoughts
• Measure impairments related to ADHD symptoms in the school, social, and family domains
• An additional DSM Symptoms Scale: Total ADHD Symptoms, for a dimensional approach
• Improves fairness and inclusivity with gender-inclusive language and culturally sensitive items that show no evidence of measurement bias regarding gender, race/ethnicity, country of residence, or parental education level.

How is the Conners 4 used?

• Inform ADHD diagnosis with results that have direct connections to DSM-5 symptom criteria and IDEIA legislation
• Develop informed intervention and treatment strategies by identifying specific challenge areas to work on
• Monitor response to intervention and its effectiveness with detailed progress reports
• Assess common comorbid disorders (Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder) to assist with differential diagnosis
• Discover how ADHD symptoms are affecting the youth by looking at impairment items which indicate functioning in home, school, and social settings
• Spend less time on paperwork and more time with the youth with fast and easy to use administration and scoring, and easy-to-interpret reports
• Gain a multi-rater perspective of the youth’s difficulties with a Parent, Teacher, and Self-report version