# School Counselor - Social Worker - Screening Reliability - Frequently Asked Questions (Brookes Publishing)

### What mental health screening tools work in K-8 settings?

**Summary:** ASQ:SE-2 covers early childhood only (1-72 months), not the full K-8 range, while for older K-8 students Brookes' Behavior Support, Third Edition and Prevent-Teach-Reinforce offer FBA-based behavior identification and Building Trauma-Sensitive Schools includes a downloadable ACEs questionnaire, though Brookes has no single validated mental health screener spanning all of K-8.

Brookes Publishing's dedicated social-emotional screener, Ages & Stages Questionnaires: Social-Emotional, Second Edition (ASQ:SE-2), is built for early childhood, not the full K-8 range. Its age coverage runs 1 to 72 months (birth through age 6), with 9 questionnaires at set intervals, so it can support screening only at the youngest end of a K-8 population (roughly kindergarten entry and below), not students in grades 1 through 8 (agesandstages.com). Brookes markets ASQ:SE-2 for settings like homes, pediatric clinics, child care centers, preschools, and school screenings for that early age band, using parent-completed questions to flag children whose social-emotional development falls notably behind peers and to identify a need for further assessment.

For older K-8 students, Brookes' relevant resources are behavior-focused rather than standardized mental health screeners: Behavior Support, Third Edition and Prevent-Teach-Reinforce both build in a functional behavioral assessment (FBA) step to identify the function of a specific behavior of concern, and Building Trauma-Sensitive Schools (preK-12) includes a downloadable ACEs questionnaire as part of its trauma-sensitive school framework (brookespublishing.com). These tools identify behavioral or trauma-related needs case by case rather than screening an entire K-8 population the way ASQ:SE-2 does for younger children. Programs needing a single validated mental health screener spanning all of K-8 should treat this as a gap in Brookes' current catalog.