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1 Complements for the CDI. CDI. Children's depression Inventory Coddington Life Events Scales (CLES). Conners' Rating Scales Revised (CRS R). Diagnostic Interview for Children and Adolescents IV (DICA IV ). Feelings, Attitudes, and Behaviors Scales for Children (FAB C). Internalized Shame Scale (ISS). Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC). Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for Children (SPAI C). A measure of depressive symptoms in young persons For pricing and ordering information: M. Kovacs, Web Site: E-mail: In the 1-800-456-3003.

2 In Canada: 1-800-268-6011 Self-Report, 27 items; 10 items for CDI Short International: +1-416-492-2627. Fax: 1-888-540-4484 or 1-416-492-3343. Ages 7 17 years For research: For site licensing and software delivery applications: For translations: 15 minutes administration time; 10 minutes for CDI Short Additional copies of this document and sample reports of available software versions may be obtained from our web site. B Level User Qualification HC02 02 Printed in Canada 1992 MHS Inc. Children's depression Inventory Maria Kovacs, Aim Norming Format Scientific Validation Clinicians and researchers alike have struggled for years with the CDI was developed and tested on a broad sample totaling over CDI is available in the MHS QuikScore Evidence of the CDI and Short CDI's strong support for reliability problem of detecting depression in children and adolescents.

3 Self- 1,200 subjects, inclusive of males and females. Students ranging Form. This paper-and-pencil format is and validity has been established over many years of empirical rated depressive symptom inventories have long played a role in from grades 2 through 8 were recruited from various public designed for easy recording, scoring, and research. This instrument is mature in the sense that there have the assessment of depression in adults because of their ease of schools. The normative data is characterized as follows.

4 Profiling of responses. No scoring templates been a number of fundamental psychometric studies. Further, administration, descriptive purposes, and ability to quantify the are necessary: the respondent's answers CDI has demonstrated consistent correlations with various syn- Group Number of Subjects Age Range severity of the depressive syndrome. Children's depression automatically transfer through to the con- dromes, other scales, and replicated predictive relationships. Girls 674 7 16. Inventory was developed in response to the corresponding assess- cealed scoring page.

5 Boys 592 7 15 Detailed data are presented in the Technical Manual, including ment needs for school-aged children and adolescents. Software CDI versions are also available. Scale Construction Based on the trends in the normative data and developmental CDI is a reliable and well tested symptom-oriented scale that For computer-based and web-enabled Temporal Reliability, Internal Consistency, Reliability &. differences found elsewhere in the literature ( , Weiss, Weisz, measures symptoms of depression in young persons.)

6 As such, CDI assessments, custom integration with your Test-Retest Reliability Politano, Carey, Nelson, & Finch, 1991), two groups were formed can be used as part of a routine screening procedure in a enterprise database, or site licensing arrangements, CDI is incor- Discriminant Validity and Concurrent Validity based on age: younger children ages 7 12, and older children number of settings including schools, outpatient/inpatient clinics, porated into MHS Professional Tool Suite, sophisticated software Gender and Age Effects ages 13 17.

7 Separate norms were developed for boys and girls as residential treatment centers, special education, child guidance technology featuring SmartLink , a client management program. Sensitivity to Change well as for the two age groups. The CDI Manual documents spe- clinics, child psychiatric, medical pediatric, and other clinical and For details about the capabilities and configuration possibilities of cific demographic aspects of the sample. Added to this, a series of three case studies serve as concrete non-clinical settings.

8 Re-administration of CDI throughout treat- the MHS Professional Tool Suite, please refer to MHS Professional examples of CDI's applicability in clinical settings. ment can provide essential evaluation information about the Instrument Tool Suite product brochure available from MHS. effects of the child's remediation program. CDI can be a very CDI is a 27-item rating instrument written at the lowest reading Supportive Literature CDI can also be launched from PsychManager : Your important tool for giving the clinician structured as well as level of any measure of depression for children.

9 Respondents are Literally hundreds of published research studies have used CDI to Professional and Personal Organizer. CDI Windows -based soft- normed information about the child. given a group of three sentences and asked to choose the one evaluate some facet of child problem behavior; the following are ware enables you to administer and score CDI assessments auto- that best describes him or her in the past two weeks. just a few. The scale quantifies a range of depressive symptoms, including matically while the respondent is seated at the computer.

10 Profile Disturbed Mood CDI presents five empirically developed factors. These are: Reports as well as Comparison Reports are generated upon com- Helsel, W. J., & Matson, J. L (1984). The assessment of depression in Hedonic Capacity Negative Mood pletion of either the Long or Short administration of the CDI. children: The internal structure of the Child depression Inventory Vegetative Functions Ineffectiveness (CDI). Behavior Research and Therapy, 22(3), 289 298. Self-Evaluation Translations Negative Self-Esteem Using our worldwide network of over 400 qualified trans- International Hodges, K.