Children’s Mental Health Screening

Facilitating Screening: Administering, Scoring and Giving Results

Administering the Screen – Child Welfare

Pediatric Symptom Checklist

As a child protection worker, you may choose to offer a Pediatric Symptom Checklist or a Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire for a child who is above the age of 5.  In the following case study we learn about Luisa and her mother, Carmen.

Here is a completed version of a Pediatric Symptom Checklist filled out by Carmen, Luisa’s mother along with case study information.

Click here to view the case study and the PSC.

Use the information in the case study and the completed PSC to answer the following questions.

Pediatric Symptom Checklist Case Study