Scale for irritability and anger, as part of the Kiddie-SADS - Present and Lifetime Version (K-SADS-PL) Diagnostic Interview

If irritability occurs in discrete episodes within a depressive state, especially if unprovoked, rater should keep this in mind when asking about mania/hypomania.

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Kaufman J, Birmaher B, Brent D, Rao U, Flynn C, Moreci P, Williamson D, Ryan N (1997) Schedule for affective disorders and schizophrenia for school-age children-present and lifetime version (K-SADS-PL): initial reliability and validity data. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry . Available from: http://www.psychiatry.pitt.edu/sites/default/files/Documents/assessments/ksads-pl.pdf

Subjective feeling of irritability, anger, crankiness, bad temper, short tempered, resentment or annoyance, whether expressed overtly or not. Rate the intensity and duration of such feelings.

Was there ever a time when you got annoyed, irritated, or cranky at little things? Did you ever have a time when you lost your temper a lot? When was that? Are you like that now? Was there ever another time you felt like that? What kinds of things made you feel like that? Were you feeling mad or angry also (even if you didn't show it)? How angry? More than before? What kinds of things made you feel angry? Did you sometimes feel angry and/or irritable and/or cranky and didn't know why? Did this happen often? Did you lose your temper? With your family? Your friends? Who else? At school? What did you do? Did anybody say anything about it? How much of the time did you feel angry, irritable, and/or cranky? All of the time? Lots of the time? Just now and then? None of the time? When you got mad, what did you think about? Did you think about killing others or hurting yourself? Or about hurting them or torturing them? Whom? Did you have a plan? How?