• How do I score or view a report?
• What norms should I use for OASRs and OABCLs completed by people from societies that are not listed in Table 2-1?
• How should users decide whether to show cross-informant bar graphs to partners who have completed OASRs to describe themselves and OABCLs to describe their partner?
• Why aren’t multicultural norms available for the hand-scored OASR and OABCL profiles?
• Why aren’t there multicultural norm groups for the tobacco, alcohol, and drug items?
• What translations of ASEBA forms are available?
• Whose consent is needed before bar graph comparisons of scale scores are shown to clients?
• How do the 2001 school-age forms differ from the previous editions?
• What if a respondent can’t read English but can read a different language?
• How is item 100 figured in the total score?
• The forms instruct the respondent to base ratings on the previous 2 months. What if a form is to be readministered over intervals of less than 2 months?
• Can other assessment procedures – such as play sessions, tests, behavioral observations, and family assessment – be used with the ASEBA forms?
• What if a respondent can’t read well enough to complete a form?
• Don’t certain items involve subjective judgments, such as 27. Doesn’t seem to feel guilty after misbehaving and 33. Feelings are easily hurt?
• How can data from the OASR and OABCL be coordinated for research purposes?
• Why are no Internalizing or Externalizing scales scored from the older adult forms?
• For assessing outcomes and doing longitudinal research, how can deviance on the adult scales be analyzed in relation to deviance on the older adult scales scored later for the same individuals?
• For longitudinal research, how can correlations be computed between scores obtained on the ages 18-59 forms and scores obtained later on the older adult forms?
• If ASEBA forms for ages 18 to 59 are completed for an individual and older adult ASEBA forms are subsequently completed for the same individual, how can the scores from the earlier and later assessments be compared?
• Are there machine-readable or web-based versions of the forms?
• If respondents fill out the forms, won’t this cause them to focus exclusively on the individual who is being assessed instead of on family or marital relationships?
• What if a respondent endorses two different items when his/her comments indicate that the endorsements of both items refer to the same behavior or characteristic?
• Can hand scoring be made quicker and easier?
• How is the Total Problems score used?
• Should extremely low scores on problem scales be considered deviant?
• How are data coordinated from different informants?
• If two or more informants are available to complete the OABCL, should they collaborate in completing a single OABCL, or should they independently complete separate OABCLs?
• Why are the OASR and OABCL said to have 113 problem items when the item numbers on pages 2 and 3 go to 123?
• What if informants say they don’t know enough about an older adult to rate certain items?
• Don’t certain items involve subjective judgments, such as 23. Feels too guilty and 32. Feels worthless or inferior?
• The OASR and OABCL instruct respondents to base ratings on the previous 2 months. What if a form is to be readministered over intervals of less than 2 months?
• How do the OASR and OABCL differ from the ASR and ABCL?
• What if a respondent can’t read well enough to complete a form?
• Can other assessment procedures be used with the ASEBA forms?
• What gender should a transgender client use when completing an ASEBA form?
• What if a respondent endorses two different items when his/her comments indicate that the endorsements of both items refer to exactly the same problem?
• Are there machine-readable versions of the forms?
• Can hand-scoring be made quicker and easier?
• Can the forms be used outside their designated age ranges?
• The ASR and ABCL instruct the respondent to base ratings on the previous 6 months. What if a form is to be readministered over intervals of less than 6 months?
• If respondents fill out the forms, won’t this cause them to focus on the individual’s problems instead of family or marital relationships?
• What if the respondent circles two scores for a particular item or otherwise indicates that the item is true of the adult but does not clearly indicate a score of 1 or 2?
• The informant has filled out and submitted the form; why won’t the scores show?
• I’m getting an error stating that PROFILE NOT DISPLAYED: More than 20 problem item are missing, Age or Gender are missing, or The scores could not be computed due to missing or invalid data when trying to score a report.
• How do I add a form?
• Where can I find forms recently completed by informants (ASEBA-Web)?
• How can I avoid storing PHI on a workstation with ASEBA-PC?
• Who or what is an assessed person?
• May I make copies of the ASEBA forms?
• Can I use a subset of the items on the forms?
• Can I use a rating period of less than the specified 2 or 6 months? How often can I readminister a form?
• What training do I need to use the ASEBA forms?
• What is an informant?
• What changes were made following the switch from DSM-4 to DSM-5?
• How often can an individual be assessed?
• Into what languages have the forms been translated?
• Some of my clients don’t read or speak English. Can I make translations of your forms for them?
• Can forms be used outside their designated age ranges?