title: Assessment of adolescent mental health and behavioral problems in institutional care: discrepancies between staff-reported CBCL scores and adolescent-reported YSR scores.
abstract: For children residing in institutional settings, staff act as primary caregivers and often provide assessment of child psychopathology. Minimal research exists on how and when staff-caregivers are best positioned to report on youth mental health. This study examines differences between 60 staff-reported and 60 adolescent-reported Child Behavioral Checklist/Youth Self-Report (CBCL/YSR) scores in Jordanian care centers, and the associations between adolescent-staff agreement, demographic characteristics and child-caregiver relationship factors. Results indicated small to modest correlations between informant scores. Additionally, staff-caregivers who know the child over 1 year and have a high perceived fit are better able to approximate the adolescent's self-report of psychopathology.
authors.affiliation: Columbia University, 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, 10027, USA, rg2372@columbia.edu.
authors.forename: Robin E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Gearing
authors.forename: Craig S J
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Schwalbe
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: MacKenzie
authors.forename: Kathryne B
authors.initials: KB
authors.lastname: Brewer
authors.forename: Rawan W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Ibrahim
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D000299:Adolescent, Institutionalized / Q000523:psychology*; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D017028:Caregivers; D057189:Checklist; D002649:Child Abuse; D054540:Child, Orphaned; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D007597:Jordan; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D008603:Mental Health; D008875:Middle Aged; D015588:Observer Variation; D000066553:Problem Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D057566:Self Report