Youth Self-Report

The Youth Status Report questionnaire has been widely used with adolescents. The YSR is designed for individuals 11-18 who are still in school. Each measure both competencies and internalizing and externalizing problems among individuals in their specified age groups. It is easy to administer, well accepted, and supported by an enormous body of research demonstrating validity and reliability. Problem scales include scores for withdrawal, somatic complaints, anxiety and depression, social problems, thought problems, attention problems, delinquent behavior, aggressive behavior, self-destructive behavior, and total problem behaviors. It takes about 40 minutes. This instrument is copyrighted and a use license has been obtained for this study.