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The materials in the clinical tools section are available for you to download and use freely in your clinical or educational work.
The KADS was developed to assist in the public health and clinical identification of young people at risk for depression. It was created by clinicians and researchers expert in the area of adolescent depression and the application of various scales and tools in clinical, research and institutional settings.
The 6-item KADS is designed for use in institutional settings (such as schools or primary care settings) where it can be used as a screening tool to identify young people at risk for depression or by trained health care providers (such as public health nurses, primary care physicians) or educators (such as guidance counselors) to help evaluate young people who are in distress or who have been identified as possibly having a mental health problem.
DOWNLOAD THE 6-ITEM KADS
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DOWNLOAD THE 11-ITEM KADS
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The Kutcher Generalized Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents is a clinician-rated scale designed to assess the severity of social phobia in adolescents.
DOWNLOAD THE K-SADS-A
The TASR-A was developed to assist in the clinical evaluation of young people at imminent risk for suicide. It was created by clinicians with expertise in the area of adolescent suicide assessment and the development and application of various scales and tools in clinical, research and institutional settings.
The TASR-A is not a diagnostic tool since suicide is a behaviour rather than a medical diagnosis. The TASR-A is also not a predictive tool since there is no tool that can be demonstrated to predict suicide. Rather, the TASR-A is a semi-structured instrument that the clinician can follow to ensure that the most common risk factors known to be associated with suicide in young people have been assessed.
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The TeFA is a self-report tool. It is meant to be completed by the patient and should take no more than three minutes to complete for most adolescents. The health care provider can use the information obtained on the TeFA to probe for further information – especially in those areas where the young person noted worse or much worse than usual and in those domains that the teen identifies as either self or parental worry.
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This tool provides clinicians with guidelines/suggestions that they can use to direct their clinical interactions with the teen.
The Mood Enhancing Prescription is a useful and time efficient tool that can be used to help the young person identify and plan their daily activities.
The TOT was developed to provide busy clinicians with a comprehensive, yet practical synthesis of information vital to the assessment and monitoring of mental health treatment outcomes.
