Comprehensive Guide to Juvenile Assessment Tests

Adolescent Chemical Dependency Inventory (ACDI)

Description: A short, non-offensive self-report test designed to assess troubled youths in schools, counseling, and treatment settings.

Items: 105

Time to Complete: 15 to 20 minutes

Scales:

• Truthfulness Scale
• Distress Scale
• Alcohol Scale
• Adjustment Scale
• Drugs Scale

Recommendations: Provides specific intervention, counseling, and treatment recommendations based on problem severity.

Adolescent Chemical Dependency Inventory - Corrections Version II (ACDI-Corrections Version II)

Description: Designed for use in schools, juvenile courts, and juvenile probation departments, this version includes a Violence (Lethality) Scale.

Items: 140

Time to Complete: 25 to 30 minutes

Scales:

• Truthfulness Scale
• Distress Scale
• Alcohol Scale
• Adjustment Scale
• Drugs Scale
• Stress Coping Abilities Scale
• Violence (Lethality) Scale

Recommendations: Provides intervention, treatment, and probation recommendations for each scale.

Domestic Violence Inventory - Juvenile (DVI-Juvenile)

Description: Designed for juveniles (14-18 years) accused or convicted of domestic violence.

Items: 149

Time to Complete: 30 to 35 minutes

Scales:

• Truthfulness Scale
• Control Scale
• Alcohol Scale
• Violence (Lethality) Scale
• Drugs Scale
• Stress Coping Abilities Scale

Use: Commonly used for juvenile domestic violence caseloads and counseling programs.

Juvenile Detention Exam (JDE)

Description: Designed for juveniles in detention, confinement, or incarceration.

Scales:

• Truthfulness Scale
• Violence Scale
• Alcohol Scale
• Antisocial Scale
• Drugs Scale

Use: Measures truthfulness, screens for violence proneness, assesses antisocial attitudes, and quantifies substance use and abuse.

Juvenile Pre-Disposition Evaluation (JPE)

Description: Designed for presentence evaluations of juvenile offenders.

Items: 159

Time to Complete: 35 minutes

Scales:

• Truthfulness Scale
• Suicide Scale
• Alcohol Scale
• Violence (Lethality) Scale
• Drugs Scale
• Distress Scale
• Resistance Scale
• Stress Coping Abilities Scale
• Self-Esteem Scale

Use: Measures important behaviors to assist in deciding probation, alternatives to incarceration, and treatment.

Juvenile Pre-Post Inventory

Description: An objective pretest-posttest outcome assessment instrument designed to evaluate counseling or treatment effectiveness.

Items: 161

Time to Complete: 30 minutes

Scales:

• Truthfulness Scale
• Distress Scale
• Self-Esteem Scale
• Alcohol Scale
• Depression Scale
• Drugs Scale
• Anxiety Scale
• Stress Management

Juvenile Substance Abuse Profile (JSAP)

Description: Designed for school systems, juvenile screening programs, and troubled youth treatment agencies.

Items: 116

Time to Complete: 20 minutes

Scales:

• Truthfulness Scale
• Aggressiveness Scale
• Alcohol Scale
• Stress Coping Abilities Scale
• Drugs Scale

Use: A brief, yet comprehensive screening tool for non-intrusive evaluation of juveniles' emotional and mental health problems.

Sexual Adjustment Inventory - Juvenile (SAI-Juvenile)

Description: Designed for evaluating juveniles (12-18 years) accused or convicted of sexual offenses.

Items: 230

Time to Complete: 1 hour

Scales:

• Sex Item Truthfulness Scale
• Violence (Lethality) Scale
• Sexual Adjustment Scale
• Antisocial Scale
• Exhibitionism Scale
• Distress Scale
• Incest Classification Scale
• Impulsiveness Scale
• Child Molest (Pedophile) Scale
• Alcohol Scale
• Sexual (Rape) Assault Scale
• Drugs Scale
• Test Item Truthfulness Scale

Use: Goes beyond the obvious in evaluating juvenile sex offenders.

Shoplifting Inventory

Description: Designed for shoplifting offender assessment.

Items: 141

Time to Complete: 30 minutes

Scales:

• Truthfulness Scale
• Self-Esteem Scale
• Shoplifting Scale
• Alcohol Scale
• Drugs Scale
• Peer Pressure Scale
• Impulsiveness Scale

Use: Evaluates motivation, attitude, and need for understanding shoplifters.

Treatment Intervention Inventory - Juvenile (TII-Juvenile)

Description: Designed for juvenile program intake (counseling, schools, HMO's, chemical dependency treatment).

Items: 143

Time to Complete: 25 to 30 minutes

Scales:

• Truthfulness Scale
• Distress Scale
• Self-Esteem Scale
• Drugs Scale
• Family Issues Scale
• Alcohol Scale
• Anxiety Scale
• Stress Coping Abilities Scale
• Depression Scale

For more information on any of these tests, visit the specific test pages or contact Behavior Data Systems at the following:

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