The Youth Anxiety Measure for the "DSM"-5 (YAM-5) is a self-report and/or parent-report measure that was created to assess the full spectrum of anxiety disorder symptoms in children and adolescents aged 8 through 18. The scale consists of two related sections. The first section (YAM-5-I) evaluates the major anxiety disorders; the second section (YAM-5-II) measures specific phobias and agoraphobia. The development of YAM-5 was grounded in the research literature on child and adolescent anxiety. The authors noted an important limitation of the most commonly utilized child anxiety measures with regard to their incongruence with the contemporary "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" ("DSM") criteria, which serves as their rationale for designing a new measure. To fill out this measurement gap in child anxiety research, YAM-5 is developed to evaluate the anxiety disorder symptoms of children and adolescents in terms of domains that align with the classification of anxiety disorders in the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (5th ed.; "DSM"-5; American Psychiatric Association, 2013). In this sense, all of the child and adolescent anxiety disorders defined in "DSM"-5 are included in the scale. The YAM-5 is used as an initial screening tool that detects information about anxiety symptoms from the perspective of children and/or the perspectives of their caregivers.