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Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)

Introduction to the assessment

The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a brief emotional and behavioural screening questionnaire for children and adolescents. Parents and teachers who are close to the students can provide information based on their observations. There are totally five scales, including emotional symptoms subscale, conduct problems subscale, hyperactivity/inattention subscale, peer relationships problem subscale and prosocial behaviour subscale.

Language version

Chinese and English

Type of Assessment

Screening Tool

Rating scale/ online

Duration of Test

10 mins

Norm

With Hong Kong Norm

Age Range

2;0 - 17;0 for Teacher and Parent Form

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