Systematic Screening For Behavior Disorders (SSBD): Universal Screening for Externalizing and Internalizing Risk

Early intervention can make a positive difference in the lives of students with severe and/or chronic behaviour disorders.

SSBD is an evidence-based screening system for identifying students who are at risk for internalising and externalising problems. These two forms of behavioural problems can disrupt social adjustment and impair academic success. SSBD provides the means to quickly identify these students and enables school staff to implement early interventions and supports.

SSBD Gets Ahead of the Next Crisis

In most schools, students at risk of behavioural problems (and their teachers) receive support only after a referral or crisis. Research-validated SSBD enables you to use a teacher's knowledge of his or her students to identify who may benefit from additional support before that referral or crisis occurs.

Early Identification, Early Intervention

Early intervention is less intensive and more effective than allowing social-emotional difficulties to percolate under the surface. And, early intervention begins with early identification.

New Norms

In 2013, 7,000 new norms were added to the original database, providing relevance to today's youth. The updated SSBD is the indispensable school technology for early detection.

Table of Contents

The SSBD Portfolio (second edition) contains:

• comprehensive Administrator's Guide
• 10 copies of Classroom Screening Packets for teachers in grades 1-9
• 2 copies of Classroom Screening Packets for PreK and K teachers
• CD that contains the Technical Manual.

"The SSBD has transformed the field of primary prevention of school emotional or behavioral problems. It is quite literally where special educators, school psychologists, and other school mental health professionals need to begin their work. It is the indispensable school technology for early detection."
- Steve Forness, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA

"The SSBD is viewed by many researchers to be the gold standard of systematic screening (Kauffman, 2001; Lane, Little, et al., 2009). In fact, it is the only tool designed to explicitly detect elementary students with either externalizing or internalizing behavior patterns."
- K. L. Lane, H. M. Menzies, W. P. Oakes, and J. S. Kalberg, n Systematic Screenings of Behavior to Support Instruction (p. 31), Guilford Press, NY