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Purpose
Screens for executive function impairment in ages 5–18 (parent & teacher forms) & 11–18 (self-report form) years
Authors
Gerard A. Gioia, PhD, Peter K. Isquith, PhD, Steven C. Guy, PhD, and Lauren Kenworthy, PhD
Administration Formats
Additional Details
The Gold-Standard Rating Form for Executive Function Testing
The BRIEF2 gives you the information you need to help children and adolescents with executive dysfunction. It digs deeper than similar measures and pinpoints exactly where and why children struggle, so therapists and schools can make informed and impactful intervention and accommodation recommendations.
It is designed for a broad range of children for whom there may be concerns about self-regulation, such as those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD); learning disabilities (LD); attention disorders; traumatic brain injuries (TBI); depression; and other developmental, neurological, psychiatric, and medical conditions.
- Saves time: Administer in just 10 minutes; online administration and scoring is also available.
- Comprehensive: Includes information about executive functioning and ADHD in one test. Features increased sensitivity to executive function problems in key clinical groups such as ADHD and ASD.
- Cohesive: Parallel structure across forms allows for more informed and effective interventions.
- Trusted: The center of more than 1,000 peer-reviewed studies in 60 languages across six continents.
Features and benefits
- Three indexes (behavioral, emotional, and cognitive).
- The infrequency scale helps identify unusual responses.
- The Score Report's overview section provides important information at a glance, including validity results, index T scores and percentiles, and explanatory text about the child's or adolescent's overall profile. The report includes a score summary table, score profile, and item response table.
- The Interpretive Report includes all information on the score report PLUS interpretive text for BRIEF2 clinical scale, index, and composite scores and validity indicators.
- The Parent/Teacher form includes an optional ADHD score profile, interpretive text, and DSM-5 ADHD Symptom Checklist. It contains 63 items within nine theoretically and empirically derived and well-validated clinical scales that measure commonly agreed upon domains of executive functioning: Inhibit, Self-Monitor, Shift, Emotional Control, Initiate, Working Memory, Plan/ Organize, Task-Monitor, and Organization of Materials.
- The Self-Report provides additional details about the level of awareness and perceptions of the examinee’s own executive functioning. It contains 55 items within seven theoretically and empirically derived and well-validated clinical scales that parallel the Parent and Teacher forms: Inhibit, Self-Monitor, Shift, Emotional Control, Task Completion, Working Memory, and Plan/Organize.
- Parent and Self-Report forms are available in Spanish.
- A free training course is available on the PAR Training Portal
Available in Spanish
Administer the BRIEF2 Parent and Self-Report Forms to your Spanish-speaking clients via PARiConnect.
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What is the technical information for the BRIEF®2
Test structure
- Three domains evaluate cognitive, behavioral, and emotional regulation, and a Global Executive Composite score provides and overall snapshot of executive functioning.
- Includes 10 clinical scales: Inhibit, Self-Monitor, Shift, Emotional Control, Working Memory, and Plan/Organize are included on all forms. Initiate, Task-Monitor, and Organization of Materials are also on the Parent and Teacher forms. The Self-Report Form also includes Task Completion.
- Includes Inconsistency, Negativity, and Infrequency scales.
Test materials
- BRIEF2 Professional Manual with Fast Guide
- Parent Form (ages 5-18 years)
- Teacher Form (ages 5-18 years)
- Self-Report Form (ages 11-18 years)
- Two-sided Scoring Summary/Profile Form (one for each form)
- 12-item screening forms also available
Administration and scoring
- Administration time: 10 minutes for core form; 5 minutes for screening form; 15 minutes to score.
- Can be hand scored.
- Qualification level B (core form) or S (screening form).
- i-Admins, Score/Interpretive Reports, Feedback Reports, and Protocol Summary Reports are available on PARiConnect.
Reliability, validity, and norms
- The BRIEF is the only assessment of its kind that has been used in more than 800 peer-reviewed studies worldwide, giving it the power to offer the most targeted diagnostic information and interventions among various symptoms and diagnoses.
- Standardization sample (N = 3,603 total ratings) is matched by age, gender, ethnicity, and parent education level to U.S. Census statistics.
- Clinical data provide support for evidence-based assessment and interpretation of clinical profiles.
- Reliable change statistics make it easy to measure the significance of change in scores over time.
- Reliability coefficients for Parent Form and Teacher Form are above .90, and above .80 for the Self-Report Form.
- The BRIEF2 is correlated with other measures of behavior and IQ, including the CBCL, BASC-2, Connors-3, ADHD-RSIV, RIAS, WISC-IV, and WAIS-IV.
- Further analysis indicates a 3-factor solution: Behavior Regulation Index, Emotional Regulation Index, and Cognitive Regulation Index.
- Base rates and mean performance across several clinical groups (e.g. ADHD types, ASD, LD, anxiety, TBI, epilepsy, NF-I, cancer, and diabetes) are provided in the professional manual.
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