The short form of the Clinical Assessment Scale of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (CASCAP) as part of the basic documentation of child and adolescent psychiatry - Results of a multicenter study

The short form of the Clinical Assessment Scale of Child and Adolescent Psy chopathology (CASCAP) assesses psychopathological features only on the leve l of symptom domains and not on the level of single symptoms. The instrumen t is part of the basic documentation of child and adolescent psychiatry. Ba sed on the multicenter study sample of CASCAP the ratings of the symptom do mains in the different centers were analysed. Inpatients receive higher rat ings than outpatients on nearly all symptom domains. Only minor differences could be found between the centres; Advantages and disadvantages of this s hort version are discussed.