Overview
Screening for depressive symptoms in adolescents.
Suitable for
11 to 20 years.
Product Description
The RADS-2 is a brief, 30-item self-report measure that includes sub-scales which evaluate the current level of an adolescent’s depressive symptomatology along four basic dimensions of depression. The RADS-2 Professional Manual provides information regarding the development of the original RADS and the extensive research that led to the development of the RADS-2.
Areas Measured
- Four sub-scales: Dysphoric Mood, Anhedonia/Negative Affect, Negative Self-Evaluation, Somatic Complaints.
Interpretation of these four sub-scales is based on both the nature of the depression domain and the item content of the sub-scale. - Six critical items alert clinicians to the possibility that an adolescent may be experiencing problematic symptoms requiring immediate clinical attention.
- Depression Total score: represents the overall severity of depressive symptomatology.
- An empirically derived clinical cut-off score helps to identify adolescents who may be at risk for a depressive disorder or a related disorder. Data demonstrate the ability of this cut-off score to discriminate between adolescents with Major Depressive Disorder and an age and gender matched control group.
- The RADS-2 standard (T) scores and associated clinical cut-off score provide the clinician or researcher with an indication of the clinical severity of the individual’s depressive symptoms (normal, mild, moderate or severe). Scores are plotted on a Summary/Profile Form, allowing comparison of elevations across sub-scales. Examining item endorsement levels within elevated sub-scales can provide further information about the nature of an adolescent’s reported symptomatology.
Norms
Sample included 3300 adolescents from school settings in the US and Canada. Normative data are provided for the entire sample, as well as by gender, age, and by gender for the three age groups - 11 to 13, 14 to 16 and 17 to 20.
Duration
5 to 10 minutes.
Release Note
2002
