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Bipolar disorder is being diagnosed and treated in children and adolescents at a rapidly increasing rate, despite the lack of validated instruments to help screen for the condition or differentiate it from more common disorders. The goal of the present study was to develop and validate a brief (10 item) instrument to assess mania in a large sample of outpatients presenting with a variety of different DSM-IV diagnoses, including frequent comorbid conditions. Parents presenting to a Midwestern academic outpatient medical center for psychiatric evaluation of their child completed the Parent General Behavior Inventory (P-GBI), a 73-item mood inventory that comprises a 46-item depressive symptom scale and a 28-item hypomanic/biphasic scale (1 item is used in both scales), as part of a screening assessment that included a semistructured psychiatric interview of both the parent and the child to …