Conners Comprehensive Behavior Rating Scales™
2nd Edition
A comprehensive, evidence-based broadband assessment of behavioral, emotional, social, and academic functioning in youth. Capture performance across key domains and move confidently to next steps.
About Conners CBRS® 2
Conners Comprehensive Behavior Rating Scales™ 2nd Edition (Conners CBRS® 2) is a multi-rater broadband assessment for youth ages 6–18 years. It provides a structured, evidence-based view of functioning across Parent, Teacher, and Self-Report perspectives. Built on decades of research and updated to reflect current diagnostic frameworks, this multi-rater assessment helps qualified professionals move efficiently from broad concerns to confident next steps.
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A Modern Framework for Understanding Youth Functioning
Results are organized into four clinically meaningful domains that offer a comprehensive view of the youth’s psychological and behavioral profile. This transdiagnostic structure helps professionals identify broader patterns of functioning, providing context beyond individual scale elevations
Strengths
Intra- and interpersonal competencies that can support growth, resilience, and positive development.
Neurodevelopmental
Challenges often emerging early in development, including attention, learning, social communication, and cognitive functioning.
Externalizing
Disruptive, impulsive, or aggressive behaviors that are directed outward.
Internalizing
Negative emotions and distress that are directed inward.
Purpose‑Built for Clinical and Educational Decision‑Making
Conners CBRS 2 is designed for clinical and educational settings, providing reliable, interpretable insights to support:
Understanding Complexity Across Clinical and Educational Settings
Learning difficulties and behavioral problems frequently co-occur, requiring interventions that address learning, social, emotional, and behavioral domains together rather than in isolation.
Children with specific learning disorders have higher rates of anxiety, depression, ADHD, and conduct disorder. Those who struggle across several learning areas tend to face an even wider range of concerns, highlighting the importance of screening for co-occurring conditions.
Youth mental health concerns commonly co-occur, vary in severity, and extend across traditional diagnostic boundaries. Assessing symptoms across multiple domains provides a more comprehensive understanding of a youth's functioning than focusing on any one diagnostic category alone.
The majority of children with ADHD (about 78%) present with at least one co-occurring disorder, reinforcing that ADHD rarely appears in isolation and supporting the use of comprehensive, broadband assessment.
Informant discrepancies often reflect the reality of how a youth’s needs vary within and across contexts, so gathering multiple perspectives is considered best practice in both research and care.
Parent and teacher ratings provide complementary perspectives across home and school contexts, with each informant capturing distinct aspects of youth behavior and helping identify context-specific functioning.
Why Start with a Broadband Measure?
By evaluating behavioral, emotional, social, and academic functioning together, a broadband measure like Conners CBRS 2 can reveal how challenges may overlap, differ across settings, and affect day-to-day functioning.
Bringing together perspectives from parents, teachers, and youth themselves provides a more complete understanding of strengths and areas of need across multiple settings.
How Conners CBRS® 2 Makes a Difference
From Broadband to Targeted Assessment
When areas of concern are identified, targeted (narrowband) assessments can provide deeper insight to support diagnosis, eligibility determination, intervention planning, and next steps.
Conners CBRS® 2 FAQ
Conners CBRS 2 is effective in clinical, educational, and research settings where a broad understanding of a youth's functioning is needed. Building on the long-standing use of the previous edition and decades of research, it helps professionals evaluate complex presentations, support diagnostic and eligibility decisions, guide intervention planning, identify areas requiring further assessment, and monitor progress over time. By combining Parent, Teacher, and Self-Report perspectives, Conners CBRS 2 provides a comprehensive view that supports confident, evidence-based decision-making.
Conners CBRS 2 is intended for qualified professionals, including school psychologists, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, physicians, mental health professionals, and appropriately trained researchers. Users interpreting results must meet Level B qualification requirements.
Conners CBRS 2 is designed for youth ages 6–18 years. Parent and Teacher forms are available for youth ages 6–18. Self-Report forms are available for children ages 8–12 and adolescents ages 13–18.
Behavioral and emotional concerns can look different across settings. By combining Parent, Teacher, and Self-Report perspectives, Conners CBRS 2 provides a more complete and balanced understanding of how concerns present across environments and in daily life.
Conners CBRS 2 is accessed through the MHS Online Assessment Center+ (MAC+), which allows you to administer, score, and generate reports at the click of a button. You can begin digital assessments by purchasing Conners CBRS 2 Uses online. If you do not already have a MAC+ account, one can be created during the checkout process using your preferred email address. Once your purchase is complete, your MAC+ account will be created. Please note, this process takes 1 to 2 business days to complete.
The Conners CBRS 2 digital manual is included when you purchase Conners CBRS 2 Uses, and can be accessed through the MHS Online Assessment Center+. The manual contains an overview of the product, comprehensive administration and interpretation guidance, case studies, standardization information, and detailed psychometric evidence. For added convenience, you can print sections of the manual for easy reference.
Yes, the entire assessment life cycle for Conners CBRS 2 (including administration, scoring, and reports) can be integrated into your existing platform and workflows using a Universal REST API. You can work closely with our consulting team to develop a solution and implementation plan that addresses your organization’s unique goals and requirements. Contact our customer service team and mention “API Integration” and we will get in touch with you.
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