Youth Mental Health Test

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Test Questions

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Optional Questions

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Your Results



Pediatric Symptom Checklist - Youth Report

The questionnaire that follows can be used to see if you are having emotional, attentional, or behavioral difficulties. For each item please mark how often you:

Please note, all fields are required.

1. Complain of aches or pains

2. Spend more time alone

3. Tire easily, little energy

4. Fidgety, unable to sit still

5. Have trouble with teacher

6. Less interested in school

7. Act as if driven by motor

8. Daydream too much

9. Distract easily

10. Are afraid of new situations

11. Feel sad, unhappy

12. Are irritable, angry

13. Feel hopeless

14. Have trouble concentrating

15. Less interested in friends

16. Fight with other children

17. Absent from school

18. School grades dropping

19. Down on yourself

20. Visit doctor with doctor finding nothing wrong

21. Have trouble sleeping

22. Worry a lot

23. Want to be with parent more than before

24. Feel that you are bad

25. Take unnecessary risks

26. Get hurt frequently

27. Seem to be having less fun

28. Act younger than children your age

29. Do not listen to rules

30. Do not show feelings

31. Do not understand other people's feelings

32. Tease others

33. Blame others for your troubles

34. Take things that do not belong to you

35. Refuse to share

Do you have any emotional or behavioral problems for which you need help?





Source

Pediatric Symptom Checklist – Youth Self-Report (PSC-Y)

Jellinek, Murphy, et al. (1988). Pediatric Symptom Checklist: Screening school-age children for psychosocial dysfunction. The Journal of Pediatrics, 112(2), pp. 201-209. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-3476(88)80056-8

For more information, visit the Pediatric Symptom Checklist page at Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry: https://www.massgeneral.org/psychiatry/treatments-and-services/pediatric-symptom-checklist

Please note: Online screening tools are not diagnostic instruments. You are encouraged to share your results with a physician or healthcare provider. Mental Health America Inc., sponsors, partners, and advertisers disclaim any liability, loss, or risk incurred as a consequence, directly or indirectly, of the use and application of these screens.