Dr. Lenore B. Behar
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Preschool Behavior Questionnaire The Preschool Behavior Questionnaire ( PBQ) was developed as a screening instrument for easy use by mental health professionals as a first step in identifying preschoolers who show symptoms, or constellations of symptoms, that suggest the emergence of emotional problems. In considering criteria for the development of this scale, it seemed important that the instrument not only show validity in discriminating between normal and deviant populations, but also both inter-rater and test-retest reliability. To be applicable to all preschoolers, it seemed the scale should be standardized across a range of preschoolers, aged three to six, male and female, black and white. Most importantly, the scale itself should be brief so that a professional could conveniently use it. The PBQ is a modification of items in the Children's Behavior Questionnaire, a checklist standardized by Michael Rutter in England in 1967 for use with elementary school-aged boys. The questionnaire is available here in Adobe PDF format. You can download by clicking here Reprints of the PBQ may be ordered as follows:
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