{"id":4748,"date":"2025-03-16T19:03:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T18:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=4748"},"modified":"2025-03-16T19:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T18:03:34","password":"","slug":"rcads-revised-child-anxiety-and-depression-scale","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/rcads-revised-child-anxiety-and-depression-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"RCADS: Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The RCADS was originally a 47 item self-report scale for young people aged 8 to 18 with five subscales: separation anxiety disorder, social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and low mood (major depressive disorder) and a parallel questionnaire for parents\/guardians (RCADS-P).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Details<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>There is also a 25 item short form and an 11 item &#8220;screening&#8221; version (which sounds like a bad idea to me: none of  our measures has the necessary screening characteristics to work well screening for psychological problems likely to benefit, cost-effectively, from offers of interventions.  With reasonable conditions, the RCADS is licensed for use without reproduction fees (hooray!) and there are fair number of translations and some referential data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a good <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corc.uk.net\/outcome-experience-measures\/revised-childrens-anxiety-and-depression-scale-rcads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">page about the RCADS<\/a> at CORC and an extensive set of pages at <a href=\"https:\/\/rcads.ucla.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">https:\/\/rcads.ucla.edu\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Try also<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/corc-child-outcomes-research-consortium\/\" title=\"\">CORC<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/screening\/\" title=\"\">screening<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Chapters<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Not covered in the OMbook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Online resources<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>None likely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dates<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>First created 16.iii.25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The RCADS was originally a 47 item self-report scale for young people aged 8 to 18 with five subscales: separation anxiety disorder, social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and low mood (major depressive disorder) and a parallel questionnaire for parents\/guardians (RCADS-P). Details There is also a 25 item short form and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary2\/rcads-revised-child-anxiety-and-depression-scale\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RCADS: Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"knowledge_base":[],"class_list":["post-4748","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry"],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":151,"total_views":"537","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"chris","author_nicename":"chris","author_url":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/author\/chris\/"},"doc_category_info":[],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4749,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4748\/revisions\/4749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=4748"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=4748"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=4748"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_base","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_base?post=4748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}