Screening Tools

The Resource for Advancing Children's Health (REACH) was founded to accelerate the acceptance and effective use of proven interventions that foster children's emotional and behavioral health.

The REACH (The Resource for Advancing Children's Health) Institute developed a toolkit for detecting warning signs of potentially serious educational, mental, or behavioral difficulty. The toolkit includes warning signs of ADHD, bipolar, conduct disorder, depression, eating disorders, suicide, and substance abuse. The toolkit provides a bibliography of books, a list of helpful websites, and listings of advocacy and professional organizations. The toolkit also contains useful instructions geared toward patients who may be experiencing warning signs.

Click here for a link to the Action Signs Project Toolkit

Screening Tools

Click here to visit the EOHHS website list of all of the MassHealth-approved screening tools for children fewer than 21.

For more information about screening tools, please visit:

The Children’s Behavioral Health Initiative- Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) Website

Information on Early Periodic Screening Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT) for Providers - The Executive Office of Health and Human Services web page on the Children’s Behavioral Health Initiative (CBHI)

Developmental Screening Tool Kit for Primary Care Providers - www.developmentalscreening.org/

General Screening information - www.schoolpsychiatry.org

Primary Care Behavioral Health Toolkit:

This toolkit includes guidelines on implementing behavioral health screenings in primary care settings, guidance on clinical issues related to screening, and information on four screening tools: M-CHAT, PSC, PEDS, and PHQ-9.

Click here to download the toolkit.

CRAFFT Toolkit:

New CRAFFT toolkit! The CRAFFT screens for substance abuse in adolescents. Click here for the CRAFFT Toolkit (acronym) for Car, Relax, Alone, Forget Friends, Trouble) toolkit. (This toolkit may take a few minutes to download.)

Diagnosis specific screens

For diagnosis specific screens, visit our MCPAP diagnosis web pages for:

ADHD
  Anxiety
  Autism Spectrum Disorder
  Bipolar
  Conduct Disorder
  Depression

Eating Disorder
   Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
   Oppositional Defiance Disorder
   Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
   Schizophrenia
   Substance Abuse

AAP policy statement

Identifying Infants and Young Children with Developmental Disorders in the Medical Home: An Algorithm for Developmental Surveillance and Screening (Policy statement includes a table of developmental screening tools.)

AAP Policy Statement: Identification and Evaluation of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Parent handouts and information

“Is Your One Year Old Communicating with You?” – Visit the AAP bookstore

Visit the school psychiatry web site for additional Parent Handouts www.schoolpsychiatry.org

Click here to visit our Parent Education Resource web page

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