Children’s Mental Health Screening

Facilitating Screening: Administering, Scoring and Giving Results

Screening Tools

Problem Oriented Screening Instrument for Teenagers (POSIT)

The POSIT is cost-effective and easy-to-use with troubled adolescents who may have one or more problems amenable to treatment or a combination of preventative services.
Manual version available through DHS:

Also available in a computerized version by requesting it through email.

Click here for a full explanation of POSIT.

Problem Oriented Screening Instrument for Teenagers (POSIT)