TOPIC: Assessment and Screening

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Policy & Program Reports & Briefs

• Screening Mental Health Problems in Schools

Center Brief Report

• Mental Health of Children and Youth and the Role of Public Health Professionals
• Mental Health of Children and youth: The Important Role of Primary Care Health Professionals

Continuing Education Module

• Addressing Barriers to Learning: New Directions for Mental Health in Schools (Continuing Education Module)

Introductory Packets

• Assessing to Address Barriers to Learning (Introductory Packet)
• Cultural Concerns in Addressing Barriers to Learning (Introductory Packet)
• Evaluation and Accountability (Introductory Packet)
• Least Intervention Needed: Toward Appropriate Inclusion of Students with Special Needs (Introductory Packet)

Newsletters

• Labeling Troubled Youth: The Name Game (Newsletter, Summer, '96)
• Response to Intervention (Newsletter, Fall, 2006)

Quick Find

• Substance Abuse
• Needs and Assests Assesesment and Mapping

Quick Training Aid

• Assessment & Screening (Quick Training Aid)

Resource Aid Packet

• Addressing Barriers to Learning: A Set of Surveys to Map What a School Has and What It Needs
• Screening/Assessing Students: Indicators and Tools

Technical Aid Packet

• School-Based Client Consultation, Referral, and Management of Care

Net Exchange Responses

• Assessment Instruments

Diagnosis
• Bright Futures in Practice: Mental Health Publication
• "Diagnostic Errors of Primary Care Screens for Depression and Panic Disorder"
• The Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) Program
• "False Positives, False Negatives, and the Validity of the Diagnosis of Major Depression in Primary Care"

Assessment
• Assessing the Mental Health of Adolescents
• Assessment: High Stakes/Competency
• Assessment of Suicidal Behaviors and Risk Among Children and Adolescents
• "Development of the Yale Children's Global Stress Index (YCGSI) and its application in children and adolescents with Tourette's Syndrome and obsessive-compulsive disorder"
• "Developmental Assessment of Competence from Early Childhood to Middle Adolescence"
• "Evidence-Based Assessment of Child and Adolescent Disorders: Issues and Challenges"
• "Measuring Mental Health Outcomes"
• Mental Health Assessments "Evidence-Based Assessment of Child and Adolescent Disorders: Issues and Challenges"
• Student Performance Standards and Aligned Assessments
• Things to Watch Out for When Assessing Suicide Risk (San Francisco Suicide Prevention Community Crisis Line)

Tests
• The Debate over National Testing (2001)- ERIC Digest
• ETS Test Collection Database
• "High School Exit Exams: Pros and Cons"
• "High Stakes: Testing for Tracking, Promotion, and Graduation"
• The Impact of High-Stakes Tests on Student Academic Performance: An Analysis of NAEP Results in States With High-Stakes Tests and ACT, SAT, and AP Test Results in States With High School Graduation Exams
• Should K-12 Students Be Required to Complete State-Sanctioned Minimum Skills Tests?
• "State High School Exit Exams: Put to the Test" (Center on Education Policy)

Guidelines/Other General Info
• Guidelines for Student Assistance Program Implementation
• National Center for Health Statistics Survey Measures Catalog: Child and Adolescent Mental Health
• No Child Left Behind: Implications for Special Education Students and Students with Limited English Proficiency

• "Detecting Suicide Risk in a Pediatric Emergency Department: Development of a Brief Screening Tool"
• Insight on the News: Should schools use behavioral screening to find 'at risk' children?
• Making Early Developmental Screenings Routine
• Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument for Mental Health Needs of Juvenile Justice Youth
• Pediatric Screening & Intervention Project (Center for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Screening, assessment and treatment planning for persons with co-occurring disorders.
• Screening and Assessing Adolescents for Substance Use Disorders Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) Series 31 (SAMHSA)
• "Screening and Assessing Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders among Youth in the Juvenile Justice System"
• "Screening for Depression Across the Lifespan: a Review of Measures for Use in Primary Care Settings"
• Screening for Depression: Recommendations and Rationale (US Preventive Services Task Force)
• Screening for Suicide Risk: Recommendations and Rationale (US Preventive Services Task Force)
• State Trends: Legislation Prohibits Mental Health Screening for Children (NMHA)
• "Using the Suicide Risk Screen to Identify Suicidal Adolescents Among Potential High School Dropouts"
• Youth Risk Behavior Survey (State of Montana Office of Public Instruction)

• Assessment for Children with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders and Their Families.
• Assessment of Students' Mental Health.
• Functional Behavioral Assessment For Students With Individualized Educational Programs
• Intake and Assessment
• Outcome Measures: Evaluating the Outcome of Children's Mental Health Services: A Guide for the Use of Available Child and Family Outcome Measures
• Problem Checklist-Adolescent Report
• Screening for Mental Health Problems in Children
• Student Rating Scale
• Talking Heads - Interviewing Adolescents
• Teen Health Risk Survey
• Use of Structured Assessment Tools in Clinical Practice