Reynolds' Adolescent Depression Scale (RADS)
William M. Reynolds, Ph.D.

The original RADS has been used by thousands of clinicians and school personnel to screen for depressive symptoms in adolescents in the U.S. and over 30 other countries.  The RADS-2 is a brief, 30-item self-report measure that includes subscales evaluating depressive symptomatology along 4 basic dimensions: Dysphoric Mood, Anhedonia/Negative Affect, Negative Self-Evaluation, and Somatic Complaints.  In addition, the RADS-2 yields a Depression Total score that represents the overall severity of depressive symptoms (normal, mild, moderate, severe).
 
The RADS-2 provides a way of screening for depression in high-risk adolescents and youth in general. In addition to its use with individual adolescent clients, it is valuable for general mental health screening in school-based and other adolescent samples.  The RADS-2 can be conveniently and quickly administered in 5-10 minutes.
 
New Features of the RADS-2 include:

• a restandardized school-based sample of 3300 adolescents,
• an expanded age range from 11-20 years,
• a new professional manual with case studies and expanded interpretations
• new carbonless hand-scorable Test Booklets.