Ebesutani, ChadBernstein, AdamNakamura, Brad J.Chorpita, Bruce F.Higa-McMillan, Charmaine K.Weisz, JohnThe Research Network on Youth Mental Health2010-10-062009Ebesutani, Chad, Adam Bernstein, Brad J. Nakamura, Bruce F. Chorpita, Charmaine K. Higa-McMillan, John R. Weisz, and The Research Network on Youth Mental Health. 2009. Concurrent validity of the child behavior checklist DSM-oriented scales: Correspondence with DSM diagnoses and comparison to syndrome scales. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment 32(3): 373-384.0882-2689http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:4460241This study used receiver operating characteristic (ROC) methodology and discriminative analyses to examine the correspondence of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) rationally-derived DSM-oriented scales and empirically-derived syndrome scales with clinical diagnoses in a clinic-referred sample of children and adolescents (N = 476). Although results demonstrated that the CBCL Anxiety, Affective, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity, Oppositional and Conduct Problems DSM-oriented scales corresponded significantly with related clinical diagnoses derived from parent-based structured interviews, these DSM-oriented scales did not evidence significantly greater correspondence with clinical diagnoses than the syndrome scales in all cases but one. The DSM-oriented Anxiety Problems scale was the only scale that evidenced significantly greater correspondence with diagnoses above its syndrome scale counterpart —the Anxious/Depressed scale. The recently developed and rationally-derived DSM-oriented scales thus generally do not add incremental clinical utility above that already afforded by the syndrome scales with respect to corresponding with diagnoses. Implications of these findings are discussed.en-USchild behavior checklistDSM-orientedconcurrent validityyouth assessmentJournal Article2010-10-0610.1007/s10862-009-9174-9