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The Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA) offers a comprehensive approach to assessing adaptive and maladaptive functioning. Developed through decades of research and practical experience to identify actual patterns of functioning, the ASEBA provides professionals with user-friendly tools.

Numerous studies demonstrate significant associations between ASEBA scores and both diagnostic and special education categories. You can relate ASEBA directly to DSM-IV diagnostic categories by using the DSM-oriented scales for scoring ASEBA forms.

The ASEBA approach originated in the 1960s with Dr. Achenbach’s efforts to develop a more differentiated picture of child and adolescent psychopathology than was provided by the prevailing diagnostic system.
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ASEBA

Sets the standard for integrated multi-informant assessment
Offers culturally diverse worldwide applications; translations in more than 90 languages
Provides multi-informant assessment for ages 1½-90+
Provides multicultural scoring for ages 1½-18
Is widely used in mental health services, schools, medical settings, child and family services, HMOs, public health agencies, child guidance, and training programs
Offers comparable scales across wide age ranges
Is used in national surveys to track development and predict competencies and problems
Is supported by extensive research on service needs and outcomes, diagnosis, prevalence of problems, medical conditions, treatment efficacy, genetic and environmental effects, and epidemiology