Assessing Behavioral Responses to Stress

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This paper advocates the use of a stress paradigm in the assessment of children with behavior disorders. The paradigm suggests that one element of an assessment should be the behavioral pattern that the child is likely to adopt in response to stress. The Stress Response Scale, designed to assess such behavioral patterns, is presented and discussed. In order to extend the scale's clinical utility, it was necessary to obtain data on the behavioral patterns that might typically be expected to be found with children in general. Data are presented which describes the most frequently found patterns among a population of school-aged children.

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