21/02/2024
The Conners 4th Edition (Conners 4™) is the highly anticipated revision of Conners 3rd Edition (Conners 3®), a leading Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) assessment. This new edition builds on the long history and strengths of the multi-informant Conners Rating Scales and provides a thorough assessment of symptoms and impairments associated with ADHD — as well as common co-occurring problems and disorders — in children and youth aged 6 to 18 years.
Improved efficiency & usability
Now fully digital, Conners 4 helps you gain back valuable time with customizable reports, online scoring for better data visualization, easy inventory management.
Increased accuracy of assessment
Conners 4 updates allow you to:
• Address critical concerns with Severe Conduct and Self-Harm Critical Items and a Sleep Problems Indicator
• Evaluate new content areas and common co-occurring problems such as Emotional Dysregulation, Depressed Mood, and Anxious Thoughts
• Measure impairments related to ADHD symptoms in the school, social, and family domains
• Apply a dimensional approach with an additional DSM Symptoms Scale: Total ADHD Symptoms
Superior quantification of severity
Conners 4 helps you to evaluate severity of symptoms by comparing the child/adolescent’s results to an ADHD Reference Sample of others already diagnosed with ADHD.
Enhanced collaboration among stakeholders
Conners 4 facilitates collaboration with parents using an enhanced Parent Feedback
Handout with an easy-to-understand explanation and summary of results.
Increased fairness and inclusivity
Conners 4 improves fairness and inclusivity with gender-inclusive language, culturally sensitive items, and items and scales that show no evidence of measurement bias regarding gender, race/ethnicity, country of residence, or parental education level.
Key areas measured
Content Scales
• Inattention/Executive Dysfunction: Reflects issues the youth may have with focusing, sustaining, and shifting attention, as well as self-management
• Hyperactivity: Reflects the youth’s level of motor or verbal activity and restlessness
• Impulsivity: Reflects difficulties a youth may have with response inhibition
• Emotional Dysregulation: Reflects the youth’s experience of, or difficulty with, regulating or managing emotions
• Depressed Mood: Reflects features of depression
• Anxious Thoughts: Reflects the youth’s experience of, and difficulty with, regulating fears and worries
DSM Symptom Scales
• ADHD Inattentive Symptoms: Reflects each of the DSM Symptom Scales Diagnostic Criteria A for ADHD Predominantly Inattentive Presentation
• ADHD Hyperactive/Impulsive Symptoms: Reflects each of the DSM Symptom Scales Diagnostic Criteria A for ADHD Predominantly Hyperactive/Impulsive Presentation
• Total ADHD Symptoms: Provides a dimensional representation of the ADHD symptoms, irrespective
of presentation type
• Oppositional Defiant Disorder Symptoms: Reflects each of the DSM Symptom Scales Diagnostic Criteria A for Oppositional Defiant Disorder
• Conduct Disorder Symptoms: Reflects each of the DSM Symptom Scales Diagnostic Criteria A for Conduct Disorder
• Self-Harm Critical Items: Reflects past suicidal thoughts or attempts and self-injurious behaviours
• Sleep Problems Indicator: Reflects behaviours that may suggest problems or difficulties with sleep
Impairment and Functional Outcome Scales
• Schoolwork: Reflects typical problems or difficulties that youth with ADHD experience in their schoolwork
• Peer Interactions: Reflects typical problems that youth with ADHD experience when interacting with peers
• Family Life: Reflects typical problems or difficulties that youth with ADHD experience or contribute to
in family interactions
