title: The scales of psychological capacities: adaptation to an adolescent population.
abstract: Given the dearth of pediatric outcome measures, Wallerstein's "scales of psychological capacities" (SPC), measuring psychotherapy changes with adults and reflecting shifts in character without specific adherence to a school of personality, was adapted to adolescents (Ad-SPC) and examined psychometrically. Twelve child psychoanalysts were consulted for content validity. Two investigators determined it to have high face validity after administering it to 40 adolescents. High inter-rater reliability was achieved for individual scale items. Construct validity was determined using Pearson correlations between multiple Ad-SPC items and co-administered validated measures of psychopathology. Preliminary psychometric properties support the Ad-SPC's potential for applicability in adolescent psychotherapy.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine , McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Greenfield
authors.forename: Constantin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Filip
authors.forename: Alicia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schiffrin
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bond
authors.forename: Rhonda
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Amsel
authors.forename: Xun
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder; D002605:Character; D002648:Child; D019955:Conduct Disorder; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results