Clinical Assessment of Child and Adolescent Personality and Behavior by Paul J. Frick Christopher T. Barry & Randy W. Kamphaus

Author:Paul J. Frick, Christopher T. Barry & Randy W. Kamphaus
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer US, Boston, MA

Development

The original version of the DISC (DISC-1; Costello, 1983; Costello et al., 1984) was designed to be a downward extension of the adult-oriented Diagnostic Interview Schedule (Robins et al., 1981). The DISC-1 was developed as part of an initiative by the NIMH Division of Biometry and Epidemiology that focused on obtaining a greater understanding of the prevalence of childhood mental disorders (Shaffer et al., 2000). The DISC-1 was designed for use in epidemiological studies and was explicitly tied to the version of the DSM being used at the time (DSM-III; American Psychiatric Association, 1980).

In 1985, Dr. David Shaffer at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and his colleagues undertook a revision of the interview to (1) improve its reliability for use with children and for use by lay interviewers and (2) provide diagnostic compatibility with the DSM-III-R (American Psychiatric Association, 1987) and anticipated DSM-IV and ICD-10 criteria (Fisher et al., 1992). Modifications to the DISC have been greatly informed by field-testing conducted as part of a large NIMH-funded multisite study titled the Methods for the Epidemiology of Child and Adolescent Mental Disorders (MECA) study.

The current version of the DISC, the DISC-IV (Shaffer et al., 2000), assesses approximately 30 diagnoses of childhood and adolescence and is fully compatible with the DSM-IV (American Psychiatric Association, 2000) and ICD-10 (World Health Organization, 1993) classification systems. The development of the DISC has expanded to other languages and to alternative administration formats (i.e., computerized).

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