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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