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Weinberg Screening Affective Scales (WSAS and WSAS-SF)

To the Editor: We have recently developed a questionnaire (Table 1), the Weinberg Screening Affective Scale (WSAS), that utilizes items linked to established criteria for depression in children (Table 2).1 From a recently completed study of depressive symptomatology in a large representative sample of nonreferred adolescents, the Weinberg Screening Affective Scale Short Form (WSAS-SF) was developed, and we suggest its usefulness in the screening of depression and potential suicide in that age group (Table 3).2,,,, We believe it important that these two forms be readily available to child neurologists and workers in other disciplines for use in the recognition of depression in children and adolescents.