The Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R®) instrument helps evaluate a broad range of psychological problems and symptoms of psychopathology. The SCL-90-R® is also useful in measuring patient progress or treatment outcomes. Guidance on using this test in your telepractice
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Symptom Checklist-90-Revised
SCL-90-R
The Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R®) instrument helps evaluate a broad range of psychological problems and symptoms of psychopathology. The SCL-90-R® is also useful in measuring patient progress or treatment outcomes. Guidance on using this test in your telepracticeOverview
Product Details
- Publication date:
- 1994
- Age range:
- Individuals 13 years and older
- Reading Level:
- Year 7
- Qualification level:
- B
- Completion time:
- 12-15 minutes (90 items, 5-point rating scale)
- Administration:
- Paper-and-pencil, CD, computer or online administration
- Norms:
- Adult nonpatients, Adult psychiatric outpatients, Adult psychiatric inpatients, Adolescent nonpatients
- Telepractice:
- Guidance on using this test in your telepractice
The SCL-90-R is an evolution of its un-normed precursor, the SCL-90 assessment. By developing norms for the revised assessment (SCL-90-R), and developing the BSI® assessment from that, anxiety scale issues were resolved and the obsessive-compulsive scale was improved.
Benefits
- Supports initial evaluation of patients at intake as an objective method for symptom assessment.
- Measures patient progress during and after treatment to monitor change.
- Measures outcomes for treatment programs and providers through aggregated patient information.
- Helps measure the changes in symptoms such as depression and anxiety.
Features
SCL-90-R helps measure 9 primary symptom dimensions and is designed to provide an overview of a patient's symptoms and their intensity at a specific point in time.
- Contains only 90 items and can be completed in just 12-15 minutes.
- Progress report graphically displays patient progress for up to 5 previous administrations.
- Assessment helps facilitate treatment decisions and identify patients before problems become acute by providing an index of symptom severity.
- Global Severity Index can be used as a summary of the test.
- More than 1,000 studies demonstrate the reliability, validity, and utility of the instrument.
- Normed on 4 groups: adult psychiatric outpatients, adult non-patients, adult psychiatric inpatients, adolescent non-patients.
Scales
Sample Reports
Interpretive and Profile Reports provide information on all three adult normative groups: non-patient, outpatient, and inpatient.
The Profile Report graphically displays the data using the norm group of your choice. The Interpretive Report graphically displays the data using the non-patient norms.
