Assessing the Mental Health of Maltreated Youth with Child Welfare Involvement Using Multi-Informant Reports

Autor/inn/en	Makol, Bridget A.; De Los Reyes, Andres; Garrido, Edward; Harlaar, Nicole; Taussig, Heather
Titel	Assessing the Mental Health of Maltreated Youth with Child Welfare Involvement Using Multi-Informant Reports
Quelle	(2021), (36 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
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Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Mental Health; Child Abuse; Child Welfare; Adolescents; Behavior Problems; Caregiver Attitudes; Teacher Attitudes; Foster Care; Family Environment; At Risk Persons; Mental Disorders; Research Methodology; Sampling; Validity; Disclosure; Correlation; Environmental Influences; Place of Residence; Parents; Individual Characteristics; Check Lists; Child Behavior; Child Behavior Checklist + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Psychohygiene; Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Kindeswohl; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Lehrerverhalten; Pflegehilfe; Familienmilieu; Risikogruppe; Mental illness; Geisteskrankheit; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Gültigkeit; Korrelation; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Wohnort; Eltern; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Checkliste
Abstract	Researchers often question the validity of multi-informant assessments among adolescents with child welfare involvement. Yet, within other clinical populations, prior research finds that multi-informant reports have a discernable structure characterized by discrete patterns of agreement and disagreement. This structure "tracks" contextual displays of behavior and clinical severity. We examined the structure of multi-informant reports (i.e., adolescent, caregiver, teacher) of adolescent externalizing and internalizing problems in a sample of adolescents with a history of child welfare involvement. Across problem domains and informants, reporting patterns mirrored those observed in other clinical populations, and displayed characteristics robustly present in meta-analytic work on cross-informant correspondence. Specifically, informants agreed more on reports of externalizing problems than internalizing problems and caregiver-teacher dyads agreed more than adolescent-caregiver dyads. Overall, we found robust, replicable patterns of multi-informant reports among child welfare involved adolescents. These reporting patterns may facilitate use and interpretation of multi-informant evidence-based assessments among this population. [This paper was published in "Child Psychiatry and Human Development" v52 n1 p49-62 2021.] (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01