P chips childrens interview for psychiatric syndromes parent version share the chips and p chips the parent version of the interview are brief and simple to administer questions are succinct simply worded and easily understood by children and adolescents practitioners in clinical and research settings alike have already found chips indispensable in screening for conditions such . Reusable interview administration bookletbased on strict dsm iv criteria and validated in 12 years of studies chips and p chips the parent version of the interview are brief and simple to administer questions are succinct simply worded and easily understood by children and adolescents practitioners in clinical and research settings alike have already found chips indispensable in . Based on strict dsm iv criteria and validated in 12 years of studies chips and p chips the parent version of the interview are brief and simple to administer questions are succinct simply worded and easily understood by children and adolescents. The childrens interview for psychiatric syndromes chips is a highly structured diagnostic interview designed for use with children aged 6 to 18 years it is based on dsm iv criteria there are 15 sections that screen for 20 axis i disorders and 2 sections that address psychosocial stressors such as abuse and neglect table 1. Method chips is a highly structured interview designed for use by trained lay interviewers in children aged 6 18 years it screens for 20 axis i disorders as well as psychosocial stressors questions use simple language and short sentence structure to enhance subject comprehension and cooperation