The Devereux Scales of Mental Disorders (DSMD) help to indicate whether a child or adolescent is experiencing or is at risk for an emotional or behavioral disorder.

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  • Devereux SMD Complete Kit (Print)
    0158048008 Qualification Level B

    Includes Manual (Print), 25 Child Ages 5-12 Ready Score Answer Documents and 25 Adolescent Ages 13-18 Ready Score Answer Documents

    $440.00

  • Devereux SMD Manual (Print)
    0158048016 Qualification Level B

    $192.20

  • Devereux SMD Child Ages 5-12 Ready Score Answer Documents Qty 25 (Print)
    0158048024 Qualification Level B

    $165.90

  • Devereux SMD Adolescent Ages 13-18 Ready Score Answer Documents Qty 25 (Print)
    0158048032 Qualification Level B

    $165.90

Overview

Publication date:
1994
Age range:
5:0 - 18:0
Qualification level:
B
Administration:
15 minutes
Forms:
Two: Child (5-12 years) and Adolescent (13-18 years)
Norms:
More than 3,000 cases, separate by sex for both parent and teacher raters

Product Details

DSMD is especially designed for treatment planning and outcome evaluation.

Benefits

  • Evaluate behavior in a variety of settings.
  • Compare results to a large national sample.
  • Support analysis for treatment planning and evaluation of treatment effectiveness.

Features

The 111-item child form and the 110-item adolescent form cover a full range of psychopathology, including externalizing, internalizing, and critical pathology disorders.

  • Consistently excellent composite scale reliabilities.
  • Content validity based on DSM-IV and mapping of specific items to corresponding DSM-IV criteria.
  • Factorially and logically derived scales reflect major dimensions of psychopathology.
  • Validity studies utilizing inpatient and outpatient clinical groups.
  • Any adult who has known the child for four weeks may serve as a rater.
  • Same form is used for parent and teacher raters, with separate norms provided for each.