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Table 2.1 Assessment instruments relevant for specific response domains

Cognitive functioning
General functioning
Mental Status Examination
Mini-Mental Status Examination (MMSE)
Intellectual functioning
Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-III
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-III
Stanford-Binet (4th ed.)
Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children
Woodcock-Johnson Psychoeducational Battery-III
Memory functions
Wechsler Memory Scale-III
Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test
California Verbal Learning Test
Benton Visual Retention Test
Visuoconstructive abilities
Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test
Drawing tests
Content of thought processes
Thematic Apperception Test
Children’s Apperception Test

Emotional functioning and level of psychopathology

General patterns and severity
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2
Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III
Millon Adolescent Personality Inventory
Rorschach
Symptom Checklist 90-Revised
Brief Symptom Inventory
Personality Inventory for Children
Depression
Beck Depression Inventory
Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression
Children’s Depression Inventory
Anxiety
State-Trait Anxiety Inventory
Fear Survey Schedule
Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule
Sexual disturbance
Derogatis Sexual Functioning Inventory
Marital /family disturbance
Dyadic Adjustment Scale
Family Environment Scale
Marital Satisfaction Inventory
Draw a Family/Kinetic Family Drawing

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Table 2.1 (Continued)

Interpersonal patterns
California Psychological Inventory
Rathus Assertiveness Schedule
Therapeutic Reactance Scale
General personality measures
Sixteen Personality Factors
NEO-PI-R
Myers Briggs Type Indicator
Adjective Checklist
Taylor Johnson Temperament Analysis
Sentence completion tests
Academic/school adjustment
Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist
Vineland Social Maturity Scale
Connors Behavior Rating Scales
Kinetic School Drawing
Academic achievement
Peabody Individual Achievement Test
Wide Range Achievement Test-III
Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Adaptive Level
AAMD Adaptive Behavior Scale
Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale
Vocational interests
Career Assessment Inventory
Kuder Occupational Interest Survey
Self-Directed Search
Strong Interest Inventory
Alcohol abuse
Michigan Alcoholism Screening Test
Alcohol Use Inventory
Diagnosis
Diagnostic Interview Schedule
Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia
Structured Clinical Interview for DSM
Structured Interview for DSM Personality Disorders
Diagnostic Interview for Children and Adolescents
Prognosis and risk
Suicide potential
Scale of Suicide Ideation
Beck Hopelessness Scale
Schizophrenia prognosis
Camberwell Family Interview