Brief report on predictive validity evidence of global risk indicators in the lives of court-involved youth.
Previous work has reported the psychometric properties and evidence for concurrent validity of a battery of items measuring global risk indicators in the lives of court-involved adolescents. The present study reports additional data on the predictive validity of this battery in a sample of 224 families of adolescents who were assessed by intake workers in a juvenile court and subsequently referred for services. Analysis yielded significant differences between groups of youth who were and were not referred to more intensive mental health-based treatment on all domains of risk in his battery.
Gavazzi
Stephen M
SM
Department of Human Development and Family Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus 43210, USA. gavazzi.1@osu.edu
Lim
Ji Young
JY
Yarcheck
Courtney M
CM
Eyre
Erika L
EL
D001290:Attitude; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D008297:Male; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D012307:Risk Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires