Semistructured Clinical Interview
for Children & Adolescents (SCICA/Ages 6-18)
The SCICA maximizes the value of interviews with a flexible user-friendly protocol, plus forms on which interviewers rate their observations and children’s self-reports during the interview. The SCICA Profile for Hand-Scoring displays raw scale scores and clinical T scores for ages 6-11 and 12-18.
The SCICA Protocol provides open-ended questions covering children’s activities and school performance, peer relations, family relations, self perceptions, feelings, and parent/teacher-reported problems.
Interviewers rate the child on the SCICA Observation and Self-Report Forms. The SCICA scales are normed on 686 clinically referred children. Mean test-retest reliability was .78 across all SCICA scales.
SCICA Scales
Empirically Based Syndrome Scales:
*Based on interviewers’ observations
**Based on interviewees’ self-reports