List of diagnostic classification and rating scales used in psychiatry

The following diagnostic systems and rating scales are used in psychiatry and clinical psychology.

Diagnostic classification

Diagnostic criteria

• Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
• ICD-10 Chapter V: Mental and behavioural disorders
• Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders
• Feighner Criteria
• Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC), 1970s-era criteria that served as a basis for DSM-III
• Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), an ongoing framework being developed by the National Institute of Mental Health

Interview instruments using the above criteria

• Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID)
• Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (SADS)
• Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (K-SADS)
• Mini-international neuropsychiatric interview (MINI)
• World Health Organisation Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI)
• Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN)
• Diagnostic Interview for Genetic Studies (DIGS)

Rating scales

Addiction

• CAGE Questionnaire
• Bergen Shopping Addiction Scale

ADHD

• Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS v1.1)^[1]
• Brown Attention-Deficit Disorder Scales^[2]
• Swanson, Nolan and Pelham Teacher and Parent Rating Scale
• Vanderbilt ADHD Diagnostic Rating Scale
• ADHD Rating Scale

Autism spectrum

• Adult Asperger Assessment^[3]
• ASAS (Australian scale for Asperger's syndrome)^[4]
• Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ)
• Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS)
• Childhood Autism Spectrum Test (CAST)^[5]
• Q-CHAT (Quantitative CHecklist for Autism in Toddlers)^[6]
• Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS)

Anxiety

• Beck Anxiety Inventory
• Child PTSD Symptom Scale
• Clinician Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS)
• Daily Assessment of Symptoms – Anxiety
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 (GAD-7)^[7][8]
• Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAM-A)^[9][10]
• Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
• Panic and Agoraphobia Scale (PAS)
• Panic Disorder Severity Scale (PDSS)
• PTSD Symptom Scale – Self-Report Version
• Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN)
• Trauma Screening Questionnaire
• Yale–Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS)
• Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale

Dementia and cognitive impairment

• Abbreviated mental test score
• Clinical Dementia Rating
• General Practitioner Assessment Of Cognition
• Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly
• Mini-mental state examination

Dissociation

• Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES)
• Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Dissociative Disorders (SCID-D-R)

Depression

• Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
• Beck Hopelessness Scale
• Centre for Epidemiological Studies - Depression Scale (CES-D)
• Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale for Children (CES-DC)
• Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)
• Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS)
• Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAM-D)
• Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
• Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale (KADS)
• Major Depression Inventory (MDI)^[11][12]
• Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS)
• Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (MFQ)
• Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale

Eating disorders

• Anorectic Behavior Observation Scale
• Binge Eating Scale (BES)
• Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26)
• Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI)

Mania and bipolar disorder

• Altman Self-Rating Mania Scale (ASRM)
• Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS)

Personality and personality disorders

• Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire (AGQ)
• Hare Psychopathy Checklist
• Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
• Narcissistic Personality Inventory

Schizophrenia and psychosis

• Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS)
• Calgary Depression Scale for Schizophrenia (CDSS)
• Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS)
• Scale for the Assessment of Positive Symptoms (SAPS)
• Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS)

Other

• Barnes Akathisia Scale
• SAD PERSONS scale for suicide risk

Global scales

• Clinical Global Impression
• Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale (CPRS)
• Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF)
• Children's Global Assessment Scale

See also

• Mental status examination
• Psychological testing

References

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