ASEBA Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL)

The Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA) Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL) offers a comprehensive approach to assessing adaptive and maladaptive functioning. The ASEBA provides useful information to design and monitor intervention. The competencies component examines a child’s participation and skills in certain activities, whereas the adaptive and maladaptive functioning component examines problem behaviours such as aggression, hyperactivity, bullying and defiance.

Both parents/caregivers and teachers are encouraged to complete the four-page questionnaire for children aged one-and-a-half to five years.

Skills and behaviours assessed with CBCL

Syndrome Scales

• Emotionally Reactive
• Anxious/Depressed
• Somatic Complaints
• Withdrawn
• Sleep Problems (CBCL only)
• Attention Problems
• Aggressive Behaviour

The forms provide scores on each of these syndromes.

DSM-Oriented Scales

• Depressive Problems
• Anxiety Problems
• Autism Spectrum Problems
• Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Problems
• Oppositional Defiant Problems

Forms for children and youth aged six to 18 years are completed by parents/caregivers and teachers online. There is also a Youth Self Report for 11 to 18-year-olds.

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