Why don’t the MMO/18-59 and MFAM display cross-informant comparisons of adaptive functioning scores? 20. July 2021 Administrator Adult Multicultural Supplement Manual Questions, Cross-Informant Data (0) Answer: The ABCL yields scores for only two adaptive functioning scales, whereas the ASR yields scor [More]
What about individuals from an indigenous minority group within a society when a normative sample is available for the entire society? 20. July 2021 Administrator Adult Multicultural Supplement Manual Questions, Conclusions to be Drawn from Scale Scores for Individuals (0) Answer: If the minority group was included in the normative sample for a society, then the overall s [More]
How are clinical interpretations and decisions for a particular individual made on the basis of norms for particular societies? 20. July 2021 Administrator (0) Answer: Chapters 2, 3, and 4 illustrate clinical interpretations and decisions for a variety of case [More]
What if I want to display an individual’s scores in relation to norms for a society that is not listed in this Supplement? 20. July 2021 Administrator Adult Multicultural Supplement Manual Questions, User Choices of Norms (0) Answer: As data from more societies become available, we will determine whether each society should [More]
For immigrants, how should I choose whether to display scale scores in relation to norms for the immigrant’s home society or the host society? 20. July 2021 Administrator Adult Multicultural Supplement Manual Questions, User Choices of Norms (0) Answer: Chapters 2, 3, and 4 illustrate decisions about the choices of norms for immigrants under va [More]
What if I want a particular form for which a translation is not available? 20. July 2021 Administrator Adult Multicultural Supplement Manual Questions, Translations of Aseba Forms (0) Answer: If a translation is not available and you wish to do a translation, please go to www. ASEBA. [More]
How can I obtain translations of ASEBA forms? 20. July 2021 Administrator Adult Multicultural Supplement Manual Questions, Translations of Aseba Forms (0) Answer: To obtain supplies of translated forms for use in a country served by an authorized ASEBA di [More]
What translations of ASEBA forms are available? 20. July 2021 Administrator Adult Multicultural Supplement Manual Questions, Translations of Aseba Forms (0) Answer: Table 2-2 lists languages into which at least one ASEBA form has been translated as of this [More]
If someone wishes to obtain a normative sample for a society not listed in Table 2-1, how should they do this? 20. July 2021 Administrator Adult Multicultural Supplement Manual Questions, Societies Not Listed in Table 2-1, Adult Multicultural Supplement Manual (0) Answer: Please e-mail Thomas.Achenbach @uvm.edu, and mail @ASEBA.org for guidance on procedures for [More]
What if the mean Total Problems scores for additional societies are found to be far below the existing Group 1 mean scores or far above the existing Group 3 mean scores? 20. July 2021 Administrator Adult Multicultural Supplement Manual Questions, Societies Not Listed in Table 2-1, Adult Multicultural Supplement Manual (0) Answer: New norm groups will be added if necessary. [More]
Will norms be added for more societies? 20. July 2021 Administrator Adult Multicultural Supplement Manual Questions, Societies Not Listed in Table 2-1, Adult Multicultural Supplement Manual (0) Answer: When data become available for a society that is not listed in Table 2-1, we will determine [More]
What norms should I use for ASRs and ABCLs completed by people from societies that are not listed in Table 2-1? 20. July 2021 Administrator Adult Multicultural Supplement Manual Questions, Societies Not Listed in Table 2-1, Adult Multicultural Supplement Manual (0) Answer: One option is to elect norms for a listed society that you think is similar to the society f [More]
Why aren't multicultural norms available for the hand-scored ASR and ABCL profiles? 20. July 2021 Administrator Adult Multicultural Supplement Manual Questions (0) Answer: Addition of multicultural scoring to the already rather complex hand-scored profiles would m [More]
Why aren't there multicultural norm groups for the tobacco, alcohol, and drug items? 20. July 2021 Administrator Adult Multicultural Supplement Manual Questions (0) Answer: We have not constructed multicultural norm groups for the substance use items because the sc [More]
What was the basis for the adaptive functioning multicultural norm groups? 20. July 2021 Administrator Adult Multicultural Supplement Manual Questions (0) Answer: For each ASR adaptive functioning scale, we computed T scores for a super sample comprising [More]
What was the basis for the Personal Strengths multicultural norm groups? 20. July 2021 Administrator Adult Multicultural Supplement Manual Questions (0) Answer: Personal Strengths scores (sum of 0-1-2 ratings on the 11 Personal Strengths items) were ave [More]
Why was the Total Problems score used as the basis for selecting Group 1, 2 and 3 societies for the problem scale norms? 20. July 2021 Administrator Adult Multicultural Supplement Manual Questions (0) Answer: The sum of ratings on all the problem items is analogous to the general intelligence dimensi [More]
For longitudinal research how can correlations be computed between the preschool scores and subsequent scores on the school-age forms? 9. July 2021 Administrator School Age Manual Frequently Asked Questions, Relations of the School-Age Forms to ASEBA Forms for Other Ages (0) Answer: Correlational and regression statistics are not affected by the absolute magnitudes of [More]
If preschool ASEBA forms for ages 1.5-5 are completed for a child and school-age ASEBA forms are completed when the child is older, how can the scores from the earlier and later assessments be compared? 9. July 2021 Administrator School Age Manual Frequently Asked Questions, Relations of the School-Age Forms to ASEBA Forms for Other Ages (0)
In evaluating individual children, how much of a change in scales scores should be considered "real' change? 9. July 2021 Administrator School Age Manual Frequently Asked Questions, School Age Profile Questions (0)
In research samples, how much of a change in scale scores should be considered "real" change? 9. July 2021 Administrator School Age Manual Frequently Asked Questions, School Age Profile Questions (0) Answer: In research designed to compare the effects of different interventions with each other [More]
What is the difference between a profile and a scoring template? 30. June 2021 Administrator School Age Manual Frequently Asked Questions, School Age Profile Questions (0) Answer: A hand-scored profile is an 8 1/2 x 14" sheet of paper on which the items of the [More]
What are the "DSM-Oriented" scales? 30. June 2021 Administrator School Age Manual Frequently Asked Questions, School Age Profile Questions (0) Answer: Questions are often raised about relations between empirically-based assessment and th [More]
Is there a "lie" scale for the profiles? 30. June 2021 Administrator School Age Manual Frequently Asked Questions, School Age Profile Questions (0) Answer: Deliberate lying is only one factor that can lead to excessively low or high scores, d [More]
How are clinical interpretations of the profiles made? 30. June 2021 Administrator School Age Manual Frequently Asked Questions, School Age Profile Questions (0) Answer: The profiles are intended as standardized descriptions of behavior, as seen by the per [More]
Why are there gaps between successive raw scores on some scales of the profiles? 30. June 2021 Administrator School Age Manual Frequently Asked Questions, School Age Profile Questions (0) Answer: Most gaps directly reflect the distributions of scores in the normative samples, where [More]
Should there be separate norms for mothers' and fathers' CBCL ratings or for different ethnic or socioeconomic groups? 30. June 2021 Administrator School Age Manual Frequently Asked Questions, School Age Profile Questions (0) Answer: As detailed in Chapter 9, differences between the mean scale scores obtained from mothers' a [More]
Should extremely low scores on problem scales be considered deviant? 29. June 2021 Administrator School Age Manual Frequently Asked Questions, School Age Profile Questions (0) Answer: Extremely low scores merely reflect the absence of reported problems. The p [More]
Should raw scores or T scores be used to report results? 29. June 2021 Administrator School Age Manual Frequently Asked Questions, School Age Profile Questions (0) Answer: For evaluating a particular child, T scores are helpful for indicating the degree [More]
Why are there no norms for the "Other Problems" listed on the profile? 29. June 2021 Administrator School Age Manual Frequently Asked Questions, School Age Profile Questions (0) Answer: The "Other Problems" on the profile do not constitute a scale. They are merely the ite [More]