The SCICA maximizes the value of interviews with a flexible user-friendly protocol, plus forms on which interviewers rate their observations and children's self-reports during the interview.

• The SCICA Protocol provides open-ended questions covering children's activities and school performance, peer relations, family relations, self perceptions, feelings, and parent/teacher-reported problems
• Interviewers rate the child on the SCICA Observation and Self-Report Forms
• Scored on eight empirically based syndromes and six DSM-oriented scales, Internalising, Externalising and Total Problems
• Syndrome Scales: Anxious; Withdrawn/Depressed; Language/Motor Problems; Attention Problems; Self-Control Problems; Anxious/Depressed; Aggressive/Rule-Breaking; and Somatic Complaints
• DSM-oriented Scales: Affective Problems; Anxiety Problems; Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Problems with Inattention and Hyperactivity-Impulsivity Subscales; Oppositional Defiant Problems; and Conduct Problems
• Normed on 686 clinically referred children, with separate profiles for ages 6-11 and 12-18
• A training DVD and computer software help trainees learn SCICA rating procedures by comparing their ratings of interview segments with ratings by experienced interviewers
• ADM module generates computer-scored profiles and narrative reports