About MICAA
One assessment, multiple points of view.
MICAA is a multi-informant mental-health assessment for adolescents aged 12 to 18. No single informant sees everything: the young person knows their inner experience best, the parent understands daily life and behavior at home, and the teacher sees how the youth functions in a classroom full of peers.
Together they add up to a complete picture.
Why multiple informants
Every rater adds something the others cannot.
Youth are the best source on internal experience: mood, anxiety, trauma reactions, substance use and private behavior. Parents know developmental history, home behavior, sleep and family context. Teachers observe attention, classroom behavior, work completion and peer functioning at school.
In the profile illustrated, the youth, both parents and the teacher all place school misbehavior within the typical range, whereas ratings of social media use are split, with one parent reporting substantially greater difficulty than the youth or the other parent. Together, these perspectives reveal what no single report would.
Clinical value
Seeing the big picture.
MICAA puts structured information from every informant in front of the clinician before the first interview, flags areas that warrant follow-up, and documents a baseline for later comparison.
The questionnaires ask about the things that matter most in a teenager’s life: mood and worry, behavior, attention and schoolwork, friendships and personal strengths, along with modern concerns such as social media, gaming, vaping and cyberbullying. Each is scored against a contemporary national sample, ensuring results reflect adolescents today.
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Where to go next.
I’m a clinician
The technical detail: how MICAA is scored and interpreted, what the reports contain, and the norms, reliability and validity behind the scores.
For Clinicians →My teen has been asked to complete MICAA-A
What the questionnaires are, what happens with the answers, and how privacy is protected, for parents, caregivers and teens.
For Families →The MICAA family
Current and forthcoming.
Adolescence · ages 12 to 18
Youth, parent and teacher questionnaires, scored and reported on the NWP provider platform.
For Clinicians →Middle childhood · ages 7 to 11
The same multi-informant design, adapted for school-age children.
Join the mailing list →Early childhood · ages 4 to 6
Child and parent perspectives on the preschool and early school years.
Join the mailing list →Get started
Available through Schoolhouse Educational Services.
MICAA-A is distributed by Schoolhouse. Clinicians with an existing account can sign in here.