ABERRANT BEHAVIOR CHECKLIIST 2ND EDITION
New Features:
- Extensive combined Manual for both Community and Residential use.
- Normative data for multiple populations including intellectual disability, ASD, Fragile-X; for children (5 years +-, adolescents & adults.
- Contains previously unpublished norms.
- Summarizes 30+ years of research, including extensive data on validity, reliability, and documentation of intervention effects.
The 58 Items Resolve into Five Subscales:
- Irritability
- Social Withdrawal
- Stereotypic Behavior
- Hyperactivity/Noncompliance
- Inappropriate Speech
Other details about the ABC-2 you need to know:
- Empirically developed by factor analysis on data from 1,000 individuals
- Detailed Guidelines for good clinical practice including instructing raters, identifying clinically significant scores and offering solutions for numerous clinical and/or research challenges.
- Detailed Subscale Norms are available for children and adults living in the community and in congregate facilities.
- Translated into over 35 foreign languages, the ABC-2 has been employed in over 420 research studies.
- ABC-2 has become the standard in the developmental disabilities field for assessing challenging behaviors.
- Extensive Psychometric Assessment of the ABC-2 has indicated that the Subscales have high internal consistency, good reliability, and well established validity.
