1. Panic Disorder or Significant Somatic Symptoms: Questions assess physical symptoms that can accompany panic, such as heart palpitations, dizziness, and feeling faint.
2. Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Questions focus on chronic and excessive worry about different areas of the child’s life, including school, future events, and family.
3. Separation Anxiety Disorder: This subscale evaluates the child’s fear and anxiety about being separated from home or caregivers, which can manifest as reluctance or refusal to go to school or sleep alone.
4. Social Anxiety Disorder: Questions assess the child’s fear of social situations and being negatively judged or embarrassed in front of others.
5. School Avoidance: This subscale measures anxiety related to attending school, which can result in frequent absences or extreme distress when faced with school-related activities.
Description
“The Five Love Languages” test is a tool designed to help individuals identify their primary love language. It consists of a series of questions or statements intended to gauge how a person typically expresses love and what makes them feel most loved and appreciated by others. Based on the responses, individuals can determine which of the five love languages resonates most strongly with them.
The BDI is a 21-item self-report questionnaire that covers various symptoms and attitudes related to depression, such as mood, pessimism, sense of failure, self-dissatisfaction, guilt, punishment feelings, suicidal ideas, crying, irritability, social withdrawal, body image change, work difficulty, insomnia, fatigue, appetite, weight loss, bodily preoccupation, and loss of libido.
Professor Angela Fawcett, a prominent researcher in dyslexia.
Measures
The Dyslexia Screening Test – Junior assesses several key areas that can indicate dyslexia, including:
Phonological Awareness, Alphabet Knowledge, Rapid Naming, Backward Digit Span, Reading and Writing Abilities, Non-verbal Reasoning
Description
The DST-J is designed to screen children aged 6.5 to 11.5 years for potential dyslexia. It consists of various tasks that are administered in a structured setting, typically by a teacher, psychologist, or other trained professional. The test provides a profile of strengths and weaknesses that are useful in identifying children who might benefit from further testing or direct intervention strategies. The results can help educators and parents understand where specific difficulties lie and how best to support the child’s learning needs.
