Conners Family of Assessments

Why should the Conners Rating Scales be part of your ADHD assessment battery?

We recognise that obtaining a diagnosis can be a significant step for individuals to achieve understanding, support and to navigate positive outcomes.

Briefly, we have highlighted some key features of the Conners 'family' of assessments that have made it a globally recognised measure to help diagnose Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

 

The importance of standardised assessments

Recommended in the NICE guidelines, the Conners Rating Scales are used in a number of comprehensive measures to assist in identifying, diagnosing and offering support or interventions for ADHD. 

Comprehensive assessments help break through the complexity and see beyond the obvious indicators of ADHD to provide a highly relevant and meaningful assessment of symptoms, impairments, and common co-occurring conditions - helping to provide individuals with the most appropriate plan to navigate any specific challenges for their long-term progress. 

Multi-source evaluations

Gathering information from multiple sources close to an individual can help to better inform practitioners.

Assessments, such as the Conners 4 (for children) and CAARS 2 (for adults) aim to obtain a broad picture of the individual by collecting observational data from parents and teachers (where relevant), observers and individuals themselves. This format greatly increases the quality of the assessment by covering a wider aspect of the individual’s day-to-day life and drawing comparisons between the informants' observations.

Day-to-day practicalities

Conners assessments have been designed with the practitioner in mind and consider:

  • Your time pressures - giving the choice of a short or long form. The short forms can be used for screening larger groups of students to explore if additional assessments would be appropriate.
  • Fairness and inclusivity, including no evidence of measurement bias regarding gender, race/ethnicity, country of residence, or parental education level. Read how Conners 4 tackles fairness and inclusivity in ADHD diagnosis
  • Reliability and test validity, using the latest norms. See further details here.

Compare improvements between the revised Conners 4th Edition and Conners 3. 

Explore the range of assessments we can offer to support your practice. The Conners 4th Edition is the newest assessment in the Conners Family, which also includes Conners 3 (paper and pencil), CAARS 2 (for adults) and Conners Early Childhood(2-6 years). Please contact us for help choosing which assessment is right for you at customersupport@hogrefe.co.uk

Conners Family of Assessments

CAARS 2 Conners Adult ADHD Rating Scales 2nd Edition (CAARS 2) C. Keith Conners, Drew Erhardt & Elizabeth P. Sparrow

The CAARS 2 is an even more comprehensive tool that, in conjunction with other sources of information, aids in the diagnostic process, treatment evaluation, and monitoring. This new edition provides updated, expanded, and reconceptualised scales and new scales to cover core symptoms of ADHD and its …

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Conners Early Childhood C. Keith Conners, PhD

Conners Early Childhood is an assessment that addresses child behaviour for ages 2 years to 6 years. The Conners EC is the result of five years of intensive product research and development. Child psychologists, clinicians, paediatricians and child psychiatrists can rely on the Conners EC to help th…

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Conners 4th Edition

Conners 4 provides a thorough assessment of symptoms and impairments associated with ADHD and common co-occurring problems and disorders in children and youths aged 6 to 18 years. The Conners 4 allows for flexibility in the administration, offering screening and short versions, to adapt to needs of …

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Hogrefe offer a range of clinical psychometric assessments, always considering the diverse range of needs required, from short screening measures and intensive intervention tools to globally recognised diagnostic assessments. 

Discover our whole catalogue of clinical and educational assessments and measures for child development on our website at hogrefe.com

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