Overview
The observations of parents and teachers provide a wealth of information about a child's behaviour that is directly relevant to an understanding of that child's executive functioning. The assessment of executive function in pre-school-aged children is often difficult because of the variable nature of behaviour in this age range; the limitations in motor and verbal proficiency at this age; and the many neuropsychological, psychological, developmental, and other medical conditions that begin to manifest during the preschool years. The BRIEF-P; is designed to specifically measure the range of behavioural manifestations of executive function in children as young as 2 years of age, thus facilitating intervention at earlier stages of development.
Suitable for
Suitable for use with ages 2 to 5 years and 11 months.
Product Description
The BRIEF-P consists of a single rating form used by parents, teachers, and day care providers to rate a child's executive functions within the context of his/her everyday environments - home and preschool. The original Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) was the basis for the development of the BRIEF-P. Consequently, the BRIEF-P is an ecologically valid and efficient tool for screening, assessing, and monitoring a young child's executive functioning and development.
The BRIEF-P is useful in assessing pre-school-aged children with such medical, acquired neurological and developmental conditions as prematurity, emerging learning disabilities and attentional disorders, language disorders, traumatic brain injuries, lead exposure and pervasive developmental disorders/autism.
The hand-scorable BRIEF-P Rating Form consists of 63 items that measure various aspects of executive functioning: Inhibit, Shift, Emotional Control, Working Memory, and Plan/Organize. The clinical scales form three broad indexes (Inhibitory Self-Control, Flexibility, and Emergent Metacognition) and one composite score (Global Executive Composite). The BRIEF-P also provides two validity scales (Inconsistency and Negativity).
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Level 2. Please see our ###LINK#PATH[https://www.hogrefe.com/uk/resources/for-test-users/qualifications]#TARGET[BLANK]#TEXT[Test User Qualifications page]### for guidance.
Norms
Based on US child ratings from 460 parents and 302 teachers from urban, suburban and rural areas, reflecting 1999 UK Census estimates for ethnicity, gender, socio-economic status and age.
Administration Time
10 to 15 minutes to administer, 15 to 20 minutes to score.
Publication Date
2003
