"Initially he was unenthusiastic, saying the task was unproductive, but quickly became fascinated with how to assess and measure behaviour, and from the Rutter scales he developed the far more useful and wide-ranging SDQ. He intentionally made it very short (one page only) so that users would not get bored and, instead of focusing purely on problems, he included questions about a child's strengths and the impact issues have on their lives."
"Knowing how thinly stretched psychiatric services were, Goodman was inspired from 1996 to go further and develop the DAWBA, which is a package of interviews and questionnaires about a child's mental health. The answers can be typed into a computer programme, which makes an assessment and predicts likely diagnoses."
Robert Goodman was a distinguished child psychiatrist who created two influential psychiatric assessment tools: the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) and the Development and Well-Being Assessment (DAWBA). Following horrifying incidents involving mentally ill individuals in the early 1990s, the Office for National Statistics commissioned Goodman to guide their first survey of children and young people's mental health in 1999. Initially reluctant to update the Rutter scales in 1995, Goodman became fascinated with behavioral assessment and measurement. He designed the SDQ as a concise, single-page tool that included questions about children's strengths alongside problems. Recognizing stretched psychiatric services, he subsequently developed the DAWBA, a comprehensive package of interviews and questionnaires that uses computer analysis to assess mental health and predict diagnoses.
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