The instrument YSR stands for which of the following?

• A. Youth Self Report
• B. Symptom Checklist-90-Revised
• C. Parenting Stress Index
• D. Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children

Answer: (A)

The main idea here is to recognize what the abbreviation YSR represents in youth assessment. YSR stands for Youth Self-Report, a self-administered questionnaire that adolescents (typically about ages 11–18) complete to rate their own emotional and behavioral problems. It’s part of the ASEBA system and is often used with other informants’ forms to get a fuller picture of a young person’s functioning. The YSR provides scales that capture internalizing problems (like anxiety and depression) and externalizing problems (like rule-breaking and aggression), with standardized scores to indicate clinically significant levels. This helps clinicians identify areas of concern, track change over time, and inform treatment planning. The other instruments listed are different tools: the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised is a broader adult symptom inventory; the Parenting Stress Index measures stress in the parent-child relationship; and the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children is an IQ/cognitive ability test, not a self-report of psychosocial functioning.