[1] The development of SCID has followed the evolution of the DSM and multiple versions are available for a single edition covering different categories of mental disorders.
The first SCID (for DSM-III-R) was released in 1989[citation needed], SCID-IV (for DSM-IV) was published in 1994 and the current version, SCID-5 (for DSM-5), is available since 2013.
[2] It is administered by a clinician or trained mental health professional who is familiar with the DSM classification and diagnostic criteria.
[5] Separate versions were used to assess psychiatric patients (SCID-P) and to study non-patient populations (SCID-NP).
[16] A variant of the tool (KID-SCID) was developed at York University for generating childhood DSM-IV diagnoses for clinical research studies.
[17] In 2015 a study evaluated the psychometric properties of the KID-SCID in a Dutch sample of children and adolescents[18] which later led to the creation of SCID-5-Junior for the DSM-5 (see below).
[citation needed] Major parts of the SCID have been translated into other languages, including Danish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Zulu.
An important feature is its customizability, allowing the instrument to be tailored to meet the requirements of a particular study.
[19] Various versions of the SCID-5 have been translated to Chinese, Danish, Dutch, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Turkish.