Historique
Rapport
The adolescent assessment/referral system: manual
(Système d'évaluation / d'orientation pour les adolescents)
Auteur(s) :
E. R. RAHDERT
Article en page(s) :
116 p.
Refs biblio. :
38
Domaine :
Plusieurs produits / Several products
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Discipline :
EPI (Epidémiologie / Epidemiology)
Thésaurus mots-clés
POSIT
;
ADOLESCENT
;
JEUNE
;
CONSOMMATION
;
FACTEUR DE RISQUE
;
SANTE
;
TYPE D'USAGE
;
FAMILLE
;
PAIR
;
SOCIABILITE
;
EVALUATION
;
METHODE
;
MODELE STATISTIQUE
;
QUESTIONNAIRE
Résumé :
The development of the adolescent assessment/referral system was undertaken by the National Institute on Drug Abuse in April of 1987. The aim of the project was to identify, collect, and organize all the appropriate materials associated with assessment and treatment referral for troubled youth 12 through 19 years of age. Earlier, efforts to address adolescent assessment and referral issues had focused mainly, and sometimes exclusively, on teenagers' use of drugs and/or alcohol. But recently there has been a growing awareness among clinicians, teachers, juvenile court authorities, parents and others that youth heavily involved with illicit drugs have multiple problems associated with that involvement. This awareness suggested that an adolescent assessment/referral system should target a large number of functional areas for evaluation in order that the broadest range of therapeutic options could be considered if optimal treatment plans were to be selected. On this basis a wide range "problem screen," rather than a "drug screen" only, formed the first logical step in an adolescent assessment-referral process. As no multiple problem screen suitable for adolescents was available, such a tool had to be designed. The second logical step in the process required more in-depth assessment if each individual teenager was to be matched to a comprehensive program that was most appropriate. To meet this demand, diagnostic instruments related to each functional area represented on the multiple problem screen had to be identified. Finally, what appeared to be the third logical step in an assessment-referral process, that is providing specific recommendations for matching diagnostic profiles with different therapeutic programs, proved unwise at this point in time. Any such prescription would, at most, be based on insufficient scientific evidence. However, "matching" teenagers to the best program requires that one has access to clinically useful information about the widest variety of adolescent services. As existing directories appeared too narrow in scope, suggestions on materials to be included seemed appropriate. (Author' s abstract)
Affiliation :
National Institute on Drug Abuse, USA
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