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Information sheets for Students from the Study Without Stress Program:
NESA have developed a series of informational sheets on Managing Stress and Getting Exam Ready with Professor Viviana Wuthrich’s expertise (author of the Study Without Stress Program):
Each of the links below contains a worksheet from the Cool Kids or Chilled 2nd Edition Workbooks (Standard Program). These files may only be downloaded and printed for practice tasks by families who own a copy of the program.
See our more information and options to download questionnaires below.
The Adolescent Life Interference Scale for Internalizing Symptoms (ALIS-I) is a self-report measure of functional impairment related to anxiety and depression for adolescents. It includes 26 items that assess overall impairment, as well as four subscales covering impairment in the domains of personal withdrawal/avoidance, peer problems, problems with study/work, and somatic symptoms.
BEACON (Brief Evaluation of Adolescents and Children Online) is a mental health screening tool for students to do in school. It aims to identify students who may be going through a difficult time and need additional support.
The CASE provides a measure of stressful life experiences of relevance to children and adolescents. There are versions to be completed by the young person themselves as well as a carer.
Items for the CASE were designed to parallel a standard clinical interview measure of life events, the PACE [Sandberg, S., et al. (1993). Assessment of psychosocial experiences in childhood: Methodological issues and some illustrative findings. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 34(6), 879 -897.]
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The CALIS is designed to assess life interference attributed to fears and worries from child and parent perspectives. The measure targets interference on the child’s life and also on the parent’s/family’s life. The CALIS is designed for children and youth aged approximately 6 to 17 years of age.
Similarly, the CALIS - Preschool version (CALIS-PV) is designed to assess life interference attributed to fear/worry and extreme shyness of preschoolers from a parent perspective. The CALIS-PV is designed for parents of children aged approximately 3 to 5 years of age.
The CATS is a developmentally sensitive, general measure of negative self-statements across both internalizing and externalizing problems. Four separate subscales of cognitive content are assessed including physical threat, social threat, personal failure, and hostility. The CATS is designed for children and adolescents aged between 8 and 17 years of age.
The MABS is a new parent measure that assesses anxiety in children and adolescents including young people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The MABS consists of 23 anxiety related questions covering Separation Anxiety, Social Anxiety, Generalised Anxiety, Panic and Specific Phobia.
The proposed factor structure produced a reasonably good fit for the data. Assessment of measurement invariance of the newly developed MABS indicated that 18 of the 23 items functioned similarly across parents of children with ASD versus children without ASD, that is, parents of children with and without ASD responded similarly to these 18 items.
These items can therefore be considered suitable items to assess anxiety in children and adolescents irrespective of presence or absence of ASD.
The Parental Overprotection Measure (POM) was designed to specifically assess ‘overprotective parenting’, conceptualised as a caregiver’s tendency to excessively try to anticipate and protect their child from potential threats. It was originally designed for use with preschool-aged children and hence items are most relevant to younger children. However, it has been successfully used in application with older samples in some studies.
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The Personal Experiences Checklist provides a self-report assessment of a young person’s personal experience of being bullied. The measure is suitable for both girls and boys aged 8 to 16 years and it covers the full range of bullying behaviours, including covert relational forms of bullying and cyber bullying. There are four subscales: physical, relational, cultural, and cyber.
The PASR is a revision of an earlier measure (Preschool Anxiety Scale, Spence et al., 2001). It is designed to assess symptoms of anxiety and fears in young children (aged 6 and below) as reported by their parents. The measure provides 4 subscales tapping generalised anxiety, social anxiety, separation anxiety, and specific fears.
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The SAS-TR assesses generalised and social anxiety symptoms experienced by a child from their teacher’s perspective. The SAS-TR is designed for children aged 5 to 12 years of age.
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The Child RADAR and Youth RADAR are emotional health screening tools designed for use with primary or high school populations. The questionnaires are based on a combination of risk and protective factors associated with the development of mental health difficulties. They consists of six subscales, each with five items, School Connectedness, Family Relations, Academic Success, Peer Acceptance, Sporting Interest, Acceptance of Appearance.