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ABC residential kit (including manual and 50 residential & community forms/score sheets) costs $107.00. The ABC community kit (including manual, 50 forms/sheets and supplemental community manual) costs $122.00. The manual alone costs $59.00. A pack of 50 forms/sheets costs $61.00. All prices are US dollars and are accurate as of December 2015.
Stoelting Co. 620 Wheat Lane Wood Dale, IL 60191 Phone: 1-800-860-9775 Fax: 1-630-860-9775 E-mail: Info@StoeltingCo.com
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ABC residential kit (including manual and 50 residential & community forms/score sheets) costs $107.00. The ABC community kit (including manual, 50 forms/sheets and supplemental community manual) costs $122.00. The manual alone costs $59.00. A pack of 50 forms/sheets costs $61.00. All prices are US dollars and are accurate as of December 2015.
1985
ABC-Residential, ABC-Community; Teacher and parent forms for each version.
Primary: General mental health assessment Secondary: None identified
e.g. Loneliness, therapeutic relationships, substance abuse, bullying
Measurement of treatment effects on the profoundly developmentally handicapped.
The ABC was originally intended to be used as an assessment of pharmaceutical and other treatment effects on adolescents and adults in residential facilities. It is also used to assess and classify problem behaviours in the developmentally handicapped in residential, community, or educational settings.
Assesses developmentally handicapped children, adolescents and adults ages 5-58.
The norms, reliability and validity statistics included in each measure profile are those reported by the author(s) of the measure. It is important to note that altering, adding or removing questions from a measure voids these reported statistics, possibly making the revised tool unreliable and invalid.
Developed on a sample of 927 institutionalized, profoundly developmentally delayed adolescents and adults in New Zealand.
Internal consistency: Aman et al. reported internal consistencies of 0.86-0.94 in the original development study. Generally, other studies have confirmed this range of internal consistencies. However, some studies have found internal consistencies as low as 0.19 (Freund, teacher form).
Test-retest: The original development study reported test-retest reliabilities of 0.96-0.99. However, the subsequent studies failed to validate these findings. Generally, have been fairly good, ranging from 0.50-0.67 (Freund, teacher form) to 0.80-0.95 (Freund, parent form).
Inter-rater: The original development study reported inter-rater reliabilities of 0.17-0.90, with a mean of 0.60. Subsequent studies have found a wide variability of inter-rater reliabilities, ranging from 0.12 to 0.95 (both in Schroeder).
There has been extensive validation of the 5-factor structure. The original development study found that the ABC demonstrated moderate discriminative validity with a number of instruments, as well as convergent validity with behavioural observation reports. It also demonstrated adequate predictive validity. Subsequent studies have provided further evidence of predictive, convergent and discriminative validities.
No copy available from the Knowledge Institute. Contact author or publisher.
ABC residential kit (including manual and 50 residential & community forms/score sheets) costs $107.00. The ABC community kit (including manual, 50 forms/sheets and supplemental community manual) costs $122.00. The manual alone costs $59.00. A pack of 50 forms/sheets costs $61.00. All prices are US dollars and are accurate as of December 2015.
Stoelting Co. 620 Wheat Lane Wood Dale, IL 60191 Phone: 1-800-860-9775 Fax: 1-630-860-9775 E-mail: Info@StoeltingCo.com
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Paclawskyj, T. R., Matson, J. L., Bamburg, J. W., & Baglio, C. S. (1997). A comparison of the Diagnostic Assessment for the Severely Handicapped-II (DASH-II) and the Aberrant Behavior Checklist (ABC). Research in Developmental Disabilities, 18(4), 289-298.
Rojahn, J., & Helsel, W. J. (1991). The Aberrant Behavior Checklist with children and adolescents with dual diagnosis. J Autism and Developmental Disorders, 21(1), 17-28.
Schroeder, S. R., Rojahn, J., & Reese, R. M. (1997). Brief report: Reliability and validity of instruments for assessing psychotropic medication effects on self-injurious behavior in mental retardation. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 27[1], 89-102.
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