The Child Behavior Checklist and related forms for assessing behavioral/emotional problems and competencies.

Primary care physicians who work with children must deal with a great variety of behavioral and emotional problems. The system described in this article provides low-cost, standardized assessment and documentation of such problems and requires little effort by the physician. Primary care physicians are under increasing pressure to obtain standardized documentation for the conditions they encounter. The most obvious pressures stem from managed care. Among the most frequently imposed expectations of primary care physicians are to: