The following diagnostic systems and rating scales are used in psychiatry and clinical psychology. This list is by no means exhaustive or complete. For instance, in the category of depression, there are over two dozen depression rating scales that have been developed in the past eighty years.

Diagnostic classification

Diagnostic criteria

* Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) *

Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders The Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders (CCMD; ), published by the Chinese Society of Psychiatry (CSP), is a clinical guide used in China for the diagnosis of mental disorders. It is on a third version, the CCMD-3, written in Chinese and E ...

Feighner Criteria The Feighner Criteria are a set of influential psychiatric diagnostic criteria developed at Washington University in St. Louis between the late 1950s to the early 1970s. The criteria are named after a psychiatric paper published in 1972 of which Jo ...

* 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 Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) * Schedules for Clinical Assessment in Neuropsychiatry (SCAN) * Diagnostic Interview for Genetic Studies (DIGS)

Rating scales

Addiction

Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) is a ten-item questionnaire approved by the World Health Organization to screen patients for hazardous (risky) and harmful alcohol consumption. It was developed from a WHO multi-country collab ...

* Bergen Shopping Addiction Scale *

CAGE Questionnaire The CAGE questionnaire, the name of which is an acronym of its four questions, is a widely used screening test for problem drinking and potential alcohol problems. The questionnaire takes less than one minute to administer, and is often used in ...

* CRAFFT Screening Test

ADHD

ADHD Rating Scale The ADHD Rating Scale (ADHD-RS) is a parent-report or teacher-report inventory created by George J. DuPaul, Thomas J. Power, Arthur D. Anastopoulos, and Robert Reid consisting of 18–90 questions regarding a child's behavior over the past 6 mon ...

* Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS v1.1) * Disruptive Behavior Disorders Rating Scale * Swanson, Nolan and Pelham Teacher and Parent Rating Scale * Vanderbilt ADHD Diagnostic Rating Scale

Autism spectrum

* Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) *

Childhood Autism Rating Scale The Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS) is a behavior rating scale intended to help diagnose autism The autism spectrum, often referred to as just autism or in the context of a professional diagnosis autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or autism s ...

(CARS) * Childhood Autism Spectrum Test (CAST) * Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) * Ritvo Autism and Asperger Diagnostic Scale (RAADS)

Anxiety

* Beck Anxiety Inventory * Child PTSD Symptom Scale * Clinician Administered PTSD Scale (CAPS) * Daily Assessment of Symptoms – Anxiety * Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 (GAD-7) * Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAM-A) *

Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) was originally developed by Zigmond and Snaith (1983) and is commonly used by doctors to determine the levels of anxiety and depression that a person is experiencing. The HADS is a fourteen item scale ...

* Panic and Agoraphobia Scale (PAS) * Panic Disorder Severity Scale (PDSS) * PTSD Symptom Scale – Self-Report Version * Screen for child anxiety related disorders *

Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory-Brief form Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory Brief, abbreviated as (SPAI-B), is a Spanish version of the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory. It evaluates the same psychological factors as SPAI related to cognition, behavior and somatic symptoms usually ex ...

* Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN) *

Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale The Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale, often shortened to TMAS, is a test of anxiety as a personality trait, and was created by Janet Taylor in 1953 to identify subjects who would be useful in the study of anxiety disorders. The TMAS originally consi ...

* Trauma Screening Questionnaire * UCLA PTSD Index * Yale–Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) *

Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale The Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS) was designed by William W. K. Zung M.D. (1929–1992) a professor of Psychiatry from Duke University, to quantify a patient's level of anxiety.Zung WW. The measurement of affects: depression and anxiety. Mod ...

Dementia and cognitive impairment

Abbreviated mental test score The Abbreviated Mental Test score (AMTS) is a 10-point test for rapidly assessing elderly patients for the possibility of dementia. It was first used in 1972, and is now sometimes also used to assess for mental confusion (including delirium) and ot ...

* Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination *

Clinical Dementia Rating The Clinical Dementia Rating or CDR is a numeric scale used to quantify the severity of symptoms of dementia (i.e. its 'stage'). Scale Using a structured-interview protocol developed by Charles Hughes, Leonard Berg, John C. Morris and other colle ...

* General Practitioner Assessment Of Cognition * Informant Questionnaire on Cognitive Decline in the Elderly * Mini-mental state examination * Montreal Cognitive Assessment

Dissociation

* Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES)

Depression

* Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) * Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS) * Centre for Epidemiological Studies - Depression Scale (CES-D) * Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale for Children (CES-DC) * Children's Depression Inventory (CDI) * Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) * Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) * Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAM-D) * Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) * Kutcher Adolescent Depression Scale (KADS) * Major Depression Inventory (MDI) * Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) * Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) * Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (MFQ) *

Weinberg Screen Affective Scale (WSAS) The Weinberg Screen Affective Scale (WSAS) is a free scale designed to screen for symptoms of depression in children and young adults ages 5–21. It can be used as an initial treatment scale and can be used to follow up on treatment efficacy. Th ...

* Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS)

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 The Altman Self-Rating Mania Scale (ASRM) is a 5-item self-reported diagnostic scale which can be used to assess the presence and severity manic and hypomanic symptoms, most commonly in patients diagnosed with bipolar disorder.Altman EG, Hedeker ...

(ASRM) * Bipolar Spectrum Diagnostic Scale * Child Mania Rating Scale * General Behavior Inventory *

Hypomania Checklist The Hypomania Checklist (HCL-32) is a questionnaire developed by Dr. Jules Angst to identify hypomanic features in patients with major depressive disorder in order to help recognize bipolar II disorder and other bipolar spectrum disorders whe ...

* Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ) *

Young Mania Rating Scale The Young Mania Rating Scale (YMRS), developed by Vincent E Ziegler and popularised by Robert Young, is an eleven-item multiple choice diagnostic questionnaire which psychiatrists use to measure the presence and severity of mania and associated ...

(YMRS)

Personality and personality disorders

* Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire (AGQ) *

Hare Psychopathy Checklist The Psychopathy Checklist or Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised, now the Psychopathy Checklist—revised (PCL-R), is a Clinical psychology#Assessment, psychological assessment tool that is commonly used to assess the presence and extent of the p ...

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is a standardized psychometric test of adult personality and psychopathology. Psychologists and other mental health professionals use various versions of the MMPI to help develop treatmen ...

Narcissistic Personality Inventory The Narcissistic Personality Inventory (NPI) was developed in 1979 by Raskin and Hall, and since then, has become one of the most widely utilized personality measures for non-clinical levels of the trait narcissism. Since its initial development, t ...

Minnesota Borderline Personality Disorder Scale The Minnesota Borderline Personality Disorder Scale (MBPD) is a measure of borderline personality disorder Borderline personality disorder (BPD), also known as emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD), is a personality disorder charact ...

Schizophrenia and psychosis

* Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) * 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 The Barnes Akathisia Scale (commonly known as BAS or BARS) is a rating scale that is administered by physicians and other healthcare professionals to assess the severity of drug-induced akathisia. The Barnes Akathisia Scale is the most widely used ...

* Child and Adolescent Symptom Inventory (CASI) *

SAD PERSONS scale The SAD PERSONS scale is an acronym utilized as a mnemonic device. It was first developed as a clinical assessment tool for medical professionals to determine suicide risk, by Patterson et al. The Adapted-SAD PERSONS Scale was developed by Gerald ...

for suicide risk

Global scales

Clinical Global Impression The Clinical Global Impression (CGI) rating scales are measures of symptom severity, treatment response and the efficacy of treatments in treatment studies of patients with mental disorders. It is a brief 3-item observer-rated scale that can be use ...

* Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale (CPRS) * Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) * Children's Global Assessment Scale

References

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