The BRIEF-SR is a standardized 80-item self-report behavior rating scale that can serve as an important tool in the clinical evaluation and treatment of children and adolescents who have problems involving the executive control functions.
Age Range: Ages 11 to 18 years
Time: 10-15 minutes to administer; 15-20 minutes to score
The BRIEF-SR was designed to complement the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) Parent and Teacher Forms by capturing a child or adolescent's view of his/her own purposeful, goal-directed, problem-solving behavior. The development of executive control functions varies in terms of age of onset, rate of development, level of proficiency, and pattern of skill acquisition. During adolescence (ages 11-18 years), important executive functions emerge and develop: increased reasoning, self-awareness, flexibility, organization, and self-monitoring; greater memory capacity; better behavioral regulation; and the ability to multi-task.
Understanding an adolescent's level of awareness of his/her own difficulties with self-regulation is a critical element in focused treatment and educational planning. It can help the clinician to estimate how much external support the adolescent will need and facilitate the intervention by building rapport and a collaborative working relationship with the adolescent.
The BRIEF-SR has demonstrated reliability, validity, and clinical utility as an ecologically valid assessment of executive functions across a range of conditions. It is designed to be completed by older children and adolescents with a 5th-grade or higher reading ability, including individuals with attention disorders, language disorders, traumatic brain injuries, lead exposure, learning disabilities, high-functioning autism spectrum disorders, and other developmental, neurological, psychiatric, and medical conditions. The BRIEF-SR materials consist of the Professional Manual, the carbonless Rating Form, and the Scoring Summary/Profile Form.
The 80 items yield information for eight nonoverlapping clinical scales that measure different aspects of executive functioning: Inhibit, Shift (with Behavioral Shift and Cognitive Shift subscales), Emotional Control, Monitor, Working Memory, Plan/Organize, Organization of Materials, and Task Completion. The clinical scales form two broader indexes--the Behavioral Regulation Index (
BRI) and the Metacognition Index (
MI)--and yield an overall summary score, the Global Executive Composite (
GEC). The BRIEF-SR also includes two validity scales: Inconsistency and Negativity.
The Professional Manual includes four case studies that demonstrate use of the adolescent's BRIEF-SR Self-Report along with the BRIEF Parent and Teacher Feedback Reports to develop intervention strategies with adolescents in four clinical groups: ADHD-I, ADHD-C, Asperger's disorder, and traumatic brain injury.
Please Note: Manual Discontinued; Revision is BRIEF-2 Professional Manual (EVA40162)Author: Steven Guy, PhD, Peter Isquith, PhD, Gerard Gioia, PhD
