Overview

The BRIEF2 assesses executive function in children and adolescents.

Suitable for

Individuals aged 5 to 18 years

Language Versions

US English (Paper and Pencil)

Product Description

The BRIEF2 is the second edition of the widely popular rating scale of executive function that continues to be as efficient, comprehensive, and consistent with current models as its predecessor. The assessment includes rating forms for teachers and parents (for ages 5-18), and a self-report form for children and adolescents (for ages 11-18).

Features and benefits

• Parent, Teacher, and Self-Report forms are now discussed in one manual and have increased parallel structure. This content overlap, combined with the presentation of rater discrepancy base rates, makes examining multiple rater perspectives easy.
• Contains more concise scales, which reduce the burden on the parent, teacher, and adolescent respondent.
• Increased parallelism in item content, with most items shared between the Parent Form and Teacher Form and approximately half of the items also shared with the Self-Report Form.
• 12-item Parent, Teacher, and Self-Report (for ages 11-18) Screening Forms quickly indicate whether executive function assessment is needed (available for paper and pencil edition only).

Test structure

• Improved empirical scale structure includes separate Task-Monitor and Self-Monitor scales.
• In addition to the two validity indicators on the original BRIEF, a new Infrequency Scale helps identify unusual responding.
• No new items were added to the clinical scales, allowing for consistency of data collection between the BRIEF and the BRIEF2.

Technical information

• Improved internal structure, with scales supported by factor analysis and three indexes consistent with widely accepted theory: Behavior Regulation, Emotion Regulation, and Cognitive Regulation.
• Clinical data provide support for evidence-based assessment and interpretation of clinical profiles.
• Reliable change statistics make it easy to measure the significance of change in scores over time.

Interpretive Guide

The BRIEF2 Interpretive Guide is intended to facilitate the use of the BRIEF2. Written by the authors of the BRIEF2 in a straightforward, reader-friendly style, this durable hardcover book is designed to assist users as they assess, plan interventions for, and monitor students with executive dysfunction.

Step-by-step guidance for interpreting scores is included. This is accompanied by a parallel sentence-by-sentence guide to help users write findings in reports using language that is concise, accurate, and clear to parents and teachers.

Please note that we are no longer selling BRIEF2 online. Please ask us about using paper and pencil, or visit BRIEF2 publisher PAR to learn more about using BRIEF2 online.

New! BRIEF2 ADHD Form

Uses BRIEF2 scores and classification statistics within an evidence-based approach to predict likelihood of ADHD and determine subtype. Uses scores from BRIEF2 Parent and/or Teacher Forms to help testers "rule in" ADHD and "rule out" other explanations for observed behaviours.

Qualification level required:
Level 2. Please see our Test User Qualifications page for guidance

Norms

Large, nationally stratified standardization sample is matched by age, gender, ethnicity, and parent education level to U.S. Census proportions.

Duration

10 minutes for full assessment; 5 minutes for Screening Form; 15 minutes to score