Reliability and validity of the Thinking Skills Inventory, a screening tool for cross-diagnostic skill deficits underlying youth behavioral challenges.

ABSTRACT: Deficits in a range of skill domains (including executive functioning, emotion regulation, social cognition and language/communication) are associated with disrupted youth behavior and functioning across mental health diagnoses. The identification of skill deficits are important for effective treatment planning, particularly for personalized interventions. While there are multiple ways to assess these skills, parent/caregiver reports represent an important information source. To date, no single, brief measure has been developed that gathers parent/caregiver ratings across this range of constructs. We have developed a short caregiver-report questionnaire (the Thinking Skills Inventory; TSI), to screen for skill deficits. Here, we examine the reliability and validity of this rating scale in

SUBMITTER: Wang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6615748 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature