Screening tools for anxiety disorder paper
Goals: To identify, describe, and assess an evidence-based screening tool for anxiety disorders and PTSD in children and adolescents.
1. Identify case study attached story from the book Andrea ( Book: chapter 7,
Anxiety Disorders: Understanding the Mental Health Problems of Children and Adolescents)(i.e. from a book, and peer-reviewed journal and the internet) of a child or and adolescent presenting symptoms or a diagnosis of anxiety.
Develop a brief description of the client’s presenting problem including symptomatology using DSM-5 criteria, history of presenting problem,and relevant sociodemographic factors.
2. Identify two appropriate evidence-based screening tools for anxiety disorders and PTSD. For this, read the module’s materials and conduct a search in academic-based sources on the internet to ensure the screening tools are adequate for the client described in the case study.
Develop a brief description of the tools (i.e. purpose, number of items, scale type, translations, cultural adaptations, reliability and validity of the measure).
3. Assess the tools. For assessing the tool, consider the following: age appropriateness, cultural appropriateness, tool adequately measures or assesses the symptoms manifested by the client, tool’s ease of readability and understanding by a child or an adolescent.