NovoPsych Assessment Updates

At NovoPsych, we’ve recently made a series of updates across many of our most popular assessments to support even deeper clinical insight and ease of use. In this post we’re highlighting two of the most significant upgrades, and introducing the newly added Trauma Recovery Measure:

Trauma Recovery Measure (TRM)
Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES)
Vanderbilt ADHD Diagnostic Parent Rating Scale (VADPRS) and Teacher Rating Scale (VADTRS)

Each features enhanced interpretations, updated norms, and improved visuals to support deeper case formulation, more targeted intervention planning, and outcome monitoring. To familiarise yourself with these scales, I’d recommend self-administering them before you give them to a real client.

I hope you’ll find them helpful!

Yours sincerely,
Ben

Trauma Recovery Measure (TRM) – Just Added!

Track your clients’ psychological recovery journey following exposure to trauma with the newly added Trauma Recovery Measure (TRM) (ages 18+; Smith, 2022).

This 15-item questionnaire helps clinicians pinpoint clients’ stage of trauma recovery (early, middle or late). The TRM provides a total scale score and three subscale scores:

Validation: A survivor’s approval and acceptance of themselves as they are, despite their experience of trauma, and the development of internal value and worthiness;
Liberation: A survivor’s ability to release or set themselves free from the control, imprisonment, and/or oppression of their trauma and to live a life in which they feel capable and confident to make positive decisions for themselves and others; and
Positive Self: The presence of positive cognitions that generate feelings of care, compassion, and/or comfort towards oneself.

Scores provide an evaluation of the individual’s current recovery journey, with low scores indicating an early stage of recovery and high scores indicating engagement in the late stage of recovery.

Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale (RSES)

The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) is a 10-item self-report measure to assess self-esteem in individuals aged 12 years and over (Rosenberg, 1965). This widely used 10-item self-report measure is brief to administer, and assesses total self-worth alongside the two subscales of Self-Competence and Self-Liking.

The NovoPsych psychometrics team has enhanced the RSES to provide deeper clinical insights, featuring:

Age-specific normative comparisons (≤25 and 26+), reflecting the increase in self-esteem with age;
Comprehensive interpretive text explaining results and supporting case formulation;
Updated severity descriptors;
Graphical comparisons of your client’s score to community and clinical samples; and
A clinically meaningful change threshold and longitudinal plots to support outcome monitoring.

These updates transform a classic, versatile measure into a more nuanced, powerful tool for case formulation, treatment planning and tracking progress over time.

Vanderbilt ADHD Diagnostic Parent Rating Scale (VADPRS)

Enhance ADHD assessments, treatment planning, and intervention evaluation with the Vanderbilt ADHD Diagnostic Parent Rating Scale (VADPRS). This 55-item parent-report measure assesses symptoms of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) as well as common comorbid conditions corresponding directly to DSM diagnostic criteria, in children aged 5-12 years (Wolraich et al., 2003).

Developed within a clinical framework, the VADPRS evaluates six distinct clinical dimensions (plus functional impairment):

Inattention
Hyperactivity/Impulsivity
Combined ADHD
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Conduct Disorder
Anxiety/Depression

Recent updates to the VADPRS include:

Age-specific percentile scores for 5–12 year olds;
Improved visuals and longitudinal plots to support monitoring and intervention evaluation;
Extensive interpretive text explaining results, including the ability to outline why a client might not meet the clinical cutoff (for example, if functional impairment criteria are not met, despite a high percentile); and
Interpretive text that outlines changes experienced by the client if the VADPRS is being used as an outcome monitoring tool.

Endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics as a part of their recommended evaluation protocol for ADHD, the VADPRS can now offer even greater clarity in assessment, treatment planning, and outcome tracking.

The Vanderbilt ADHD Diagnostic Teacher Rating Scale (VADTRS) has been updated alongside the Parent version (VADPRS). Used in tandem, the updated VADTRS and VADPRS provide a robust, multi-informant approach to ADHD diagnosis and treatment planning, supporting alignment with DSM diagnostic requirements for symptoms to be present across multiple settings.

If you know any professionals that might be interested in these scales, please forward them this post! We’re constantly adding assessments to the NovoPsych test library.

View over 150 of the current psychometric tools available on NovoPsych here.

Warm regards,
Dr Ben Buchanan
Psychologist
NovoPsych Co-founder
Ben@NovoPsych.com
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