Behavioral Assessment System For Children

The Behavioral Assessment System for Children is designed to weigh characteristics of behavior and personality, including negative and positive dimensions. The BASC provide a combined approach to the assessment of children, adolescents, from two years to age 18 over a wide range of informants. The assessments provides a portrayal of the child’s strengths and well as their weaknesses. The BASC uses a shorter-scale screening, 10 to 20 minutes, which is preferred by schools (Myunghee &Ebesutani, 2015). This is important being that mental health screening in schools have yet adopted on a wide-scale level, partly due the administration burden of long assessment forms (Myunghee &Ebesutani, 2015). The BASC provides separate rating scales for motor