Interviewers' instructions

The DAWBA is designed so that it doesn't need to be administered by clinical child psychologists or psychiatrists. However, since the DAWBA is a detailed and comprehensive diagnostic assessment that covers many mental health issues, and also collects open-ended comments, it needs to be interpreted by well-trained professionals with substantial patient-based experience, or supervised by experienced child psychiatrists or clinical psychologists. The interviewers' instructions were written to help familiarise interviewers with the DAWBA and to answer commonly asked questions.

Click here to view and download a complete set of interviewers' instructions in English and various translations

Alternatively, you can look at the instructions section by section in English:

	The basic structure of each section
	Why do we always want to know about impact as well as about symptoms?
	Interviewing young people
	Section A: Separation anxiety
	Section B: Specific phobias
	Section C: Social phobia
	Section D: Panic attacks and Agoraphobia
	Section E: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
	Section F: Compulsions and obsessions
	Section G: Generalised anxiety
	Section H: Depression
	Deliberate self-harm (questions H22-H24)
	Section J: Attention and activity
	Section K: Awkward and troublesome behaviour
	Section L: Less common disorders
	Section M: Significant problems section
	Interviewers' observations

Last modified : 05/09/09