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The Multidimensional Adolescent Assessment Scale: a validation study
- Authors:
- GLISSON Charles, HEMMELGARN Anthony L., POST James A.
- Journal article citation:
- Research on Social Work Practice, 12(1), January 2002, pp.82-106.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This study describes the design and psychometric characteristics of the Shortform Assessment for Children (SAC). The SAC is an efficient and easy-to-use tool for monitoring the overall mental health and psychosocial functioning of children age 5 to 18 who are served by child welfare and juvenile justice systems in the USA. The one-page 48-item instrument was developed with the support of the National Institute of Mental Health to describe internalizing (withdrawn, anxious, depressed) and externalizing (aggressive, antisocial, violent) profiles of children in both home/residential and school/classroom settings. Psychometric data supporting the reliability and validity of the SAC are presented for a sample of children served by one state's child welfare and juvenile justice system.
The role of specialty mental health care in predicting child welfare and juvenile justice out-of-home placements
- Authors:
- GLISSON Charles, GREEN Philip
- Journal article citation:
- Research on Social Work Practice, 16(5), 2006, pp.480-490.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This longitudinal, prospective study examines the role of specialty mental health care as provided by community-based, usual-care practice settings in predicting out-of-home placements among children served by a child welfare and juvenile justice system. The mental health needs of 1,249 children from 22 counties in Tennessee were assessed when the children were referred for child welfare and juvenile justice, in-home, case management services. The outpatient specialty mental health care received by the children in the 6-month period following the referral was recorded using the Service Assessment for Children and Adolescents and reimbursement records of TennCare. Children were then followed for 1.5 years to identify those who were subsequently placed in out-of-home care. A majority of the children needed specialty mental health care, but most of these children did not receive it. This is important because their need was the best predictor of subsequent out-of-home placement. The odds of an out-of-home placement in the follow-up period were reduced by 36% to 40% for those children who received specialty mental health care. The authors conclude that improved systematic screening for mental health problems and access to specialty mental health care for children referred for in-home child welfare and juvenile justice case management services are promising strategies for reducing out-of-home placements.
The validity of the Shortform Assessment for Children (SAC)
- Authors:
- HEMMELGARN Anthony L., GLISSON Charles, SHARP Shannon R.
- Journal article citation:
- Research on Social Work Practice, 13(4), July 2003, pp.510-530.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This study tests the validity of the Shortform Assessment for Children (SAC), a one-page, 48-item measure of a child's overall mental health. Designed as a rapid assessment instrument for child welfare and juvenile justice systems, the SAC measures the broadband constructs of internalizing and externalizing problems using either parents or teachers as respondents. The convergent, divergent, and criterion validity of the SAC (completed by both parents and teachers) was assessed with data gathered on 188 children in two urban child welfare and juvenile justice systems. The validity of the SAC was supported for both parent and teacher respondents. The SAC's brevity, validity, and utility (completed by a teacher or parent) provide an efficient and effective assessment tool for child welfare and juvenile justice systems.
Reactivity and responsiveness in children's service systems
- Authors:
- NUGENT William R., GLISSON Charles
- Journal article citation:
- Social Services Research, 25(3), 1999, pp.41-60.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
This American study examines the extent to which public children's service systems respond to the mental health problems of children in state custody. Looks at how one state system is responsive versus reactive to the mental health problems of the children in it's care. A responsive system is one in which services are provided to meet each child's unique mental health needs. A reactive system is one in which service providers take actions to avoid providing needed mental health services. The results found a service system more reactive than responsive to children's mental health problems.