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The Oregon Mental Health Referral Checklists: concept mapping the mental health needs of youth in the juvenile justice system
- Author:
- CORCORAN Kevin
- Journal article citation:
- Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention, 5(1), February 2005, pp.9-18.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This article summarizes the development of checklists to identify the mental health needs of youth in the juvenile justice system. With concept mapping as its base, a 31-item checklist was developed in three parallel forms and assessed on three samples: young people in a locked correctional facility and parents and juvenile justice professionals of adjudicate young people who were sentenced to community service. The instruments appear to have acceptable to very good internal consistency and moderate to strong coefficients of equivalence. Total symptoms were associated with internal and external problems for youth, suggestions from a trusted friend that one might have a mental health problem, and various other mental health history variables for the youth version. The instruments appear to have acceptable to very good reliability and very good validity for the youth version; furthermore, they are useful in identifying acting-out crises and psychological crises, including harm to self, others, and property.
Adolescence growing up in stressful environments, dual diagnosis, and sources of success
- Authors:
- ROBERTS Albert R., CORCORAN Kevin
- Journal article citation:
- Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention, 5(1), February 2005, pp.1-8.
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This article considers the social and psychological challenges to young people in contemporary society. The authors examine the variety of social impediments that face young people in most of our social institutions, from schools and the juvenile justice system to the family. They underscore the need for prevention, health promotion, and comprehensive assessment. Further, they assert that "dual diagnosis" needs to be considered not as a "special population" but as the typical or common experience of at-risk youths once they are diagnosed at mental health centers or juvenile justice reception and diagnostic centers. They conclude that evidence-based assessment, intervention, prevention, and health promotion will start to unravel the matter of misdirected diagnosis and treatment.