The Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function–Adult Version (BRIEF-A) is a standardized measure that captures views of an adult’s executive functions or self-regulation in his or her everyday environment. Both a self-report and an informant report are used. The Brief-A is based on the original BRIEF, the BRIEF-A includes 75 items within nine nonoverlapping theoretically and empirically derived clinical scales:
Inhibit
Self-Monitor
Plan/Organize
Shift
Initiate
Task Monito
Emotional Control
Working Memory
Organization of Materials
Purpose: Assesses adult executive functioning/self-regulation Format: Paper and pencil Age range: 18 years to 90 years Time: 10–15 minutes
Test structure
Two broad indexes (Behavioral Regulation and Metacognition), an overall summary score, and three validity scales (Negativity, Inconsistency, and Infrequency) are included.
Features and Benefits
Versatile: Useful for a wide variety of developmental, systemic, neurological, and psychiatric disorders such as attention disorders, learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, depression, mild cognitive impairment, dementias, and schizophrenia.
Available in Spanish: BRIEF-A Self-Report and Informant forms have been translated into U.S. Spanish. This product uses English norms only.
Technical information
Normative sample included 1,136 adults from a wide range of racial/ethnic backgrounds, educational backgrounds, and geographic regions.
Profiles for diagnostic groups, including ADHD, Alzheimer’s disease, and multiple sclerosis, are presented.
Demonstrates evidence of reliability, validity, and clinical utility as an ecologically sensitive measure of executive functioning in individuals with a range of conditions across a wide age range.
EVA40178 BRIEF Adult Introductory Kit: Includes BRIEF Adult Professional Manual, 25 Self-Report and 25 Informant Report Forms, and 25 Self-Report and 25 Informant Report Scoring Summary/Profile Forms
EVA40181 BRIEF-A Informant Report Forms : Includes 1 package of 25 Informant Report Forms
EVA40183: BRIEF-A Informant Report Scoring Summary/Profile Forms: Includes a pad of 25 Informant Report Scoring Summary/Profile Forms
EVA40179 BRIEF-A Professional Manual: Includes 1 BRIEF-A Professional Manual
EVA40180 BRIEF-A Self-Report Forms: Includes 1 package of 25 BRIEF-A Self-Report Forms
EVA40182 BRIEF-A Self-Report Scoring Summary/Profile Forms: Includes a pad of 25 BRIEF-A Self-Report Scoring Summary/Profile Forms
EVA40185 BRIEF-A Spanish Informant Report Forms: Includes 1 package of 25 BRIEF-A Spanish Informant Report Forms
EVA40184 BRIEF-A Spanish Self-Report Forms: Includes 1 package of 25 BRIEF-A Spanish Self-Report Form
