For documentation in chart, each item can be rated either in the written note or with dictation, or total score would be possible. However, having detailed scales is helpful to target specific areas to improve further or see why specifically the patient condition is worsening.
First line screening
Aka the ones you should know and can serve as good reference for questions in interviews
- Drug Abuse: TICS (2 items questions screening)
- Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and PHQ-9 paper version
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 Item Scale (GAD-7)
- Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)
General health and functioning
Addictions / Dépendances
- Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT)
- Drug Abuse: TICS (2 items questions screening)
- Bergen Shopping Addiction Scale (BSAS)
- CAGE Alcohol Questionnaire (CAGE)
- CAGE-AID, includes drugs and more lifetime use
- Diagnostic Screen for Gambling Disorders (NODS-CLIP)
- Excessive Gaming Screening Tool (EGST)
- Internet Addiction Assessment (IAA)
- Sexual Addiction Screening Test (SAST)
- Opiod Risk Tool
Heteroaggresivity / Risque hétéroaggressif
Anxiety disorder / Troubles anxieux
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder 2 Item Scale (GAD-2)
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 Item Scale (GAD-7)
- Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A)
- Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS)
- Panic and Agoraphobia Scale (PAS)
- Short Health Anxiety Inventory (HAI-18)
- Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN)
- Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale (SCAS)
- Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale (TMAS)
- Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS)
Autism spectrum disorder / Trouble du spectre de l’autisme
- Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ)
- Autism Spectrum Screening Questionnaire (ASSQ)
- Childhood Autism Spectrum Test (CAST)
- Infant-Toddler Checklist (ITC)
- Quantitative Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (Q-CHAT)
- Ritvo Autism & Asperger Diagnostic Scale (RAADS-14)
Depressive disorders / Troubles dépressifs
- Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)
- Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS)
- Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale – 11-Item (KADS-11)
- Major Depression Inventory (MDI)
- Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS)
- Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (clinician rated) paper version
- Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and PHQ-9 paper version
- Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS)
ADHD / TDAH
- CADDRA is the Canadian ADHD Ressource Alliance, which has all the guideline for treating ADHD. They also provide here pdf for:
SNAP-IV-26 Teacher and Parent Rating Scale (SNAP)
Adult ADHD Self Report Scale (ASRS)
Weiss Symptom Record II (WSR II)
Weiss Functional Impairment Rating Scale – Self (WFIRS-S)
Weiss Functional Impairment Rating Scale – Parent (WFIRS-P)
CADDRA Teacher Assessment Form
CADDRA Clinician ADHD Baseline/Follow-Up Form
CADDRA Patient ADHD Medication FormJerome Driving Questionnaire (JDQ) - Annick Vincent Website has amazing printable documents (French and English) for families and also physician (ADHD medication tables).
Stress
Eating disorders / Troubles alimentaires
BIPOLAR DISORDER / Troubles bipolaires
OCD / TOC
Child psychiatry
For paper versions and exhaustive list of scales, the Canadian Paediatric Society’s Mental Health Task Force has amazing list of screening tools and rating scales, that you can look up by keyword, condition, tool type and age.
Childmentalhealth is a good ressources for rating scales and psychoeducation. You can create and account and patients can fill scales and form directly on the website that are then sent to you.
