Register now and start:
- Accessing PAR Training
- Shopping PAR products & tools
- Using online assessments with PARiConnect
Still the Leader
PARiConnect saves time, offers insightful reports, and registration is FREE!
Details
Purpose
Assesses adult executive functioning
Authors
Robert M. Roth, PhD, Peter K. Isquith, PhD, Gerard A. Gioia, PhD
Administration Formats
Additional Details
Allows Adults and Those Closest to Them to Rate Their Executive Functions in Everyday Settings
Receive 10% off of the BRIEF2A by using the promo code "SPRINGSOON" at checkout.
BRIEF2A is a standardized rating scale that allows adults and knowledgeable informants (caregivers, adult children, partners/spouses) to rate executive function or self-regulation in that adult’s day-to-day setting. This allows clinicians to gather information from multiple sources, better equipping them to evaluate the complexities of executive function.
Now developed with the three-factor model found in the BRIEF2, which characterizes executive function deficits more clearly, the BRIEF2A offers new multirater and progress monitoring reports that allow for comparison between self and informant or over time, providing more valuable information to clinicians and leading to more targeted interventions.
The BRIEF2A Informant report is beneficial when assessing clients exhibiting cognitive deficits due to certain diagnoses (e.g., TBI, stroke, dementia) because it helps address concerns the clinician may have about the client’s ability to reliably rate their own executive function.
Features and benefits
- More reliable. The BRIEF2A has fewer items (75 to 70), and an updated normative sample based on the 2021 US census, and therefore more representative of the current population.
- More accurate. Updated to the 3-factor model found in the BRIEF2.
- More applicable. The U.S. population is living longer than ever before, the extended age range (up to 99 years) meets the demand for more assessment tools to evaluate older adults.
- New reports. The new multirater and progress monitoring reports identify differences between raters and over time.
Spanish language translation
The BRIEF2A also has new forms with an updated Spanish translation which allows clinicians to use the BRIEF2A with their Spanish-speaking clients, in various clinical settings.
Shop by Kit
What's Included
What's Included
What's Included
What's Included
Shop by Item
FAQs
What is the technical information of the BRIEF2®A?
Technical information
- The normative sample for the BRIEF2A consists of 1,637 individuals for the Self-Report Form and 1,605 individuals for the Informant Report Form.
- The BRIEF2A Professional Manual includes profiles and base rates of scale elevations for adults with ADHD, ASD, LD, schizophrenia spectrum disorder, mild TBI with persisting symptoms, moderate to severe TBI, and Parkinson’s disease.
Test structure
- The table below shows the BRIEF2A indexes and the corresponding clinical scales
What is included in the new Multirater and Progress Monitoring reports?
- The Multirater Report allows the clinician to compare one self-report and one informant report on the same client. The report presents the scores side-by-side and graphs both sets of scores on a single profile, with indication of which scales and indexes have significant differences between raters as well as base rates of those differences in the normative samples.
- The Progress Monitoring Report provides these comparisons for ratings completed by the same rater on the same client over time, allowing you to compare two to four time points per report.
- Both are available at no additional charge once each set of ratings has been scored.
Why does the BRIEF2A include two different retest samples?
- The short retest sample (2-4 weeks) provides evidence for test–retest reliability of ratings, and it can be used to calculate reliable change indices (RCIs) over a short period, such as for acute effects of medication.
- The longer retest sample (4-6 months) was used to create RCIs for a more clinically relevant retest timeframe, such as those used to evaluate response to therapeutic intervention or rehabilitation. BRIEF2A progress monitoring reports use the longer retest interval for flagging significant differences in ratings over time.
What is the connection between adult ADHD and Executive function?
Dr. Maegan Sady, Senior Project Director for PAR explains how executive functioning deficits are a core feature of ADHD are and how some of the items in the BRIEF2A directly relate to both the core symptoms and associated features of ADHD. Including difficulty with working memory, planning and organization, initiation, and inhibition.
What is the connection between adult Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Executive functioning?
Dr. Maegan Sady, Senior Project Director for PAR explains the connection between executive functioning and adults diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and how the BRIEF2A can help identify areas of difficulty such as working memory, flexibility, planning and organizing that are often associated with ASD.
What are the benefits of using the BRIEF2A score and interpretive reports with clients diagnosed with ADHD and ASD?
Listen as Dr. Maegan Sady, Senior Project Director at PAR, walks through best practices for how to use the BRIEF2A score report and interpretive report when working with adult clients diagnosed with ADHD and ASD.
Related Products
BRIEF®2
The Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function, Second Edition, (BRIEF2) assesses executive functioning in home and school in children 5-18 years. 25 minutes to administer and score. Buy from PAR.
BRIEF®2 Screening Forms
The BRIEF 2 SF is designed to use in medical and educational settings to estimate whether a comprehensive assessment is needed. Find out more.
BRIEF®
Assesses impairment of executive function
BRIEF®-A
BRIEF-A assesses adult executive functioning. Useful to measure LD, ASD, TBI, Multiple Sclerosis, Depression, Cognitive Impairment, Dementia & Schizophrenia. Buy from PAR.
BRIEF®-P
BRIEF-P assesses preschool children for emerging attention disorders, LD, TBI, autism and lead exposure. Buy the BRIEF-P preschool executive functioning test from PAR.
BRIEF®-SR
Assess cognitive, emotional, & behavioral functions in adolescents with the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function—Self-Report Version (BRIEF-SR). Order from PAR.
BRIEF®2 Interventions Handouts
Handouts for parents, teachers, and students that provide interventions to improve executive function in youth
BRIEF®2 ADHD Form
Rule In or Rule Out ADHD & Help Determine Subtype with the BRIEF2 ADHD Form. Buy from PAR.