Clinical Assessment of Behavior (CAB)
Bruce A. Bracken, Ph.D., and Lori K. Keith, Ph.D.
The CAB is an objective, comprehensive, and highly reliable behavior rating scale that is closely aligned with current diagnostic criteria found in the DSM-IV-TRTM and IDEA. Standardized on a large representative national sample, the CAB assists in the identification of children and adolescents across a wide age range who are in need of behavioral, educational, or psychiatric treatment or intervention. It enables professionals to identify behaviors associated with educationally relevant exceptionalities.
The CAB offers a balanced theoretical framework of both competence-based qualities and problem-based concerns for the CAB scales and clusters, making it useful for evaluating adaptive strengths and clinical risks in children and adolescents. The CAB assesses behaviors that reflect current societal concerns and issues about youth and their behavior (e.g., bullying, aggression, executive function, gifted and talented). It includes both Parent and Teacher Rating Forms, thus providing a multisource, multicontext assessment of children and adolescents??behaviors.