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Comprehensive Assessment of the At-Risk Mental States (CAARMS)

Full name of scale

Comprehensive Assessment of the At-Risk Mental States (Yung et al., 2005)

Languages

English, French, Swedish, Arabic, Italian, Greek, Polish, Korean, Japanese, Dutch

French version reference

Krebs, M.-O., Magaud, E., Willard, D., Elkhazen, C., Chauchot, F., Gut, A., Morvan, Y., Bourdel, M.-C., & Kazes, M. (2014). Évaluation des états mentaux à risque de Transition psychotique : Validation de la version française de la CAARMS. L'Encéphale, 40(6), 447–456. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.encep.2013.12.003

Rater

 

Clinician-Rated

For mental health professionals and researchers

Training

Training is needed

Utility

Used to assess psychopathology thought to indicate imminent development of a first-episode psychotic disorder and to determine if an individual meets criteria for being at ultra high risk (UHR) for onset of first psychotic disorder.

 

Tool designed for repeated use over time (e.g., monthly, 6 monthly)

Time to complete

Full version: Approximately 1 hour or more

An abbreviated version also exists

Cost/license

Open Access

Yung, A. R., Yuen, H. P., McGorry, P. D., Phillips, L. J., Kelly, D., Dell’Olio, M., … Stanford, C. (2005). Mapping the onset of psychosis: The comprehensive assessment of at‐risk mental states. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 39(11‐12), 964–971. Follow this link for the article.

 

 

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