Checklists and Scaling Methods

Abstract

This chapter reviewed a number of different social skills assessments and presented evidence supporting their use in children and adolescents. Overall, the majority of social skills assessments reviewed here consisted of rating scales intended to measure both adaptive and maladaptive social skills or aspects of social competence with research indicating adequate to excellent psychometric properties. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)