Technical Support for ASEBA® Software Products
Individual Scale Score Reports
- Can social desirability, lying, and other informant characteristics such as depression cause biases in scores?
- 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?
- Why are there gaps between successive raw scores on some scales of the profiles?
- Is there a “lie” scale for the profiles?
- Why are no norms shown for the “Other Problems” listed on the Profile?
- What are the “DSM-oriented” scales?
- How is the Total Problems score used?
- Should extremely low scores on problem scales be considered deviant?
- In evaluating individuals, how much of a change in scale scores should be considered a “real” change?
- Why are there no norms for the “Other Problems” listed on the profile?
- How are clinical interpretations of the profiles made?
- Are the ASEBA instruments valid for children with Down Syndrome?