Matakuliah
Tahun
: Psikologi Diagnostik
: 2010
Standardized Behavioral Assessment II
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Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)
• One of the most widely used parent report forms of
children’s psychological behavior
• Designed to measure competencies and problems in
children from ages 4 to 18 years  need to assess both
strengths and problem behaviors as a way to better
understand a particular child’s mental health status.
• Competence consists of seven sections focusing on
Activities, Social, and School Competencies, while
behavior problems contain 118 specific problem
behaviors and two items that allow parents to write in
other problems.
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CBCL – Problem Behaviors
• Problem behaviors are organized in a hierarchical factor
structure that consists of :
– eight correlated first-order or narrowband syndromes (i.e.,
Withdrawn, Somatic, Anxious/ Depressed, Social,
Thought, Attention, Delinquent, and Aggressive)
– two correlated second-order or broadband factors (i.e.,
Internalizing and Externalizing), and
– an overall total problems factor
• Items have been designed to cover a range of behaviors
that vary in terms of the level of inference required by the
parent.
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Theoretical Basis
Achenbach’s framework are several assumptions about the
nature of children’s psychopathology
• Relevant problems include thoughts, behaviors, and emotions,
whose manifestations may change with age (e.g., as children
mature) and vary by gender.
• Problems are conceptualized as more or less continuous
dimensions rather than categorical classes.
• Problems reflect a taxonomy in which they form differentiated
clusters organized at different levels (i.e., narrowband and
broadband syndromes and total problems).
• A complete assessment should include multiple points of view
(i.e., parent, teacher, child) on the child’s behavior.
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Range of Applicability and Limitations
• Applications of the CBCL can be conceptualized into two
broad purposes: clinical practice and research
• Achenbach’s multiaxial empirically based assessment
model for making diagnostic, placement, formative, and
summative decisions about specific cases.The five axes
of the assessment model include parent (Axis I) and
teacher (Axis II) reports, cognitive (Axis III) and physical
(Axis IV) assessments, and direct assessment of the
child (Axis V)
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