Behavioral Assessment Flashcards
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The Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) tool is most commonly used in CAASP contexts to:
Answer: Communicate needs and strengths to support care planning and level-of-care decisions
The CANS is a communication tool used across child-serving systems to translate assessment findings into actionable care planning information.
When a behavioral assessment reveals co-occurring mental health and substance use concerns in an adolescent, the CAASP framework recommends:
Answer: Integrated, simultaneous treatment of both concerns
CAASP and modern systems of care emphasize integrated, co-occurring treatment rather than sequential or siloed approaches.
The difference between a behavioral assessment and a psychiatric evaluation is best described as:
Answer: Psychiatric evaluations focus on diagnosis and medication; behavioral assessments focus on function and environment
Behavioral assessments emphasize functional analysis and environmental factors, while psychiatric evaluations focus on diagnosis, symptom clusters, and medication considerations.
In a behavioral assessment, a high score on the 'externalizing' domain typically indicates problems such as:
Answer: Aggression, rule-breaking, and conduct problems
Externalizing behaviors are directed outward and include aggression, defiance, and conduct problems, as distinct from internalizing problems directed inward.
Which approach to behavioral assessment is most consistent with a trauma-informed care lens?
Answer: Asking 'What happened to this child?'
Trauma-informed care reframes assessment from deficit-labeling to understanding how adverse experiences shape behavior and functioning.
Reliability in behavioral assessment refers to:
Answer: The consistency of measurement across time, raters, or settings
Reliability reflects consistency — if two raters score the same behavior differently, or results vary wildly across administrations, the measure is not reliable.
A behavioral assessment for a child with suspected ADHD should include teacher ratings because:
Answer: ADHD symptoms must be observed in at least two settings for DSM-5 diagnosis
DSM-5 requires that ADHD symptoms be present in two or more settings, making cross-setting data from teachers essential to the assessment.