Children's Depression Rating Scale-Revised: Development of a short form

Lithium in the Acute Treatment of Bipolar I Disorder: A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study

“…Initial training presentations were provided for the K-SADS-PL, the YMRS, the Children's Depression Rating Scale-Revised (CDRS-R), 22,23 and the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale 24 for raters across all 10 sites. Raters were considered trained if they scored within 20% of the gold standard score for the YMRS and CDRS-R videos (established by the lead clinical site Principal Investigator) in addition to completing a written examination regarding administration of the K-SADS-PL.…”

Peer acceptance in early childhood and subtypes of socially withdrawn behaviour in China, Russia, and the United States

“…Finally, this measure has been shown to be unassociated with depression in Chinese school-age children (Chen, Rubin, & Li, 1995b), a construct that has been linked to peer rejection and socially timid and withdrawn behaviour in North American children (cf. Harrist et al, 1997;Ialongo, Edelsohn, Werthamer-Larsson, Crockett, & Kellam, 1996;Overholser, Brinkman, Lehnert, & Ricciardi, 1995).…”

Validation of the children′s depression rating scale- revised for adolescents in primary-care pediatric use in India

“…Although the measure was originally designed for use among 6-to 12-year-old children it has been successfully used with adolescents. [10] CDRS-R has been validated in other languages and culture and a short version of the tool is also available. [10,11] CDRS-R is useful in tracking the rate of recovery in depressed adolescents as well.…”

“…[7] Among the clinician-rated measures for depression, the Children's Depression Rating Scale-Revised (CDRS-R) has been widely acclaimed. [8][9][10][11] In this study we validate CDRS-R for primary-care pediatric use in India.…”