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Section 16
Screening and Assessment in Juvenile Justice

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U.S. Department of Justice
Office of Justice Programs
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

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- Grisso, Thomas and Lee A. Underwood. Screening and Assessing Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Among Youth in the Juvenile Justice System A Resource Guide for Practitioners. U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs and Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, December 2004, p. 1-5.

Update
The Impact of Juvenile Justice System
Involvement on the Health and Well-Being
of Youth, Families, and Communities of Color:
Proceedings of a Workshop

- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Health and Medicine Division; Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice; Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity, Anderson, K. M., & Olson, S. (Eds.). (2022). The Impact of Juvenile Justice System Involvement on the Health and Well-Being of Youth, Families, and Communities of Color: Proceedings of a Workshop. National Academies Press (US).

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article References:
Clapp, J. D., Kern, S. M., Kozina, R. M., Ripley, A. J., & Lear, M. K. (2019). Stability of reported trauma over extended intervals: Initial evaluation of an exposure screening protocol. Psychological Assessment, 31(6), 805–816.

Grisso, T., Fountain, E., NeMoyer, A., & Thornton, L. C. (2019). The role of translational psychological science in juvenile justice reform [Editorial]. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 5(2), 113–120.

Jones, N. J., Brown, S. L., Robinson, D., & Frey, D. (2016). Validity of the youth assessment and screening instrument: A juvenile justice tool incorporating risks, needs, and strengths. Law and Human Behavior, 40(2), 182–194.

Royer-Gagnier, K., Skilling, T. A., Brown, S. L., Moore, T. E., & Rawana, J. S. (2016). The Strengths Assessment Inventory–Youth Version: An evaluation of the psychometric properties with male and female justice-involved youth. Psychological Assessment, 28(5), 563–574. 

van den Berk-Clark, C., Gallamore, R., Barnes, J., Oberle, A., Meyer, D., Schneider, F. D., & Ambulatory Research Community Health Network (ARCHNet). (2021). Identifying and overcoming barriers to trauma screening in the primary care setting. Families, Systems, & Health, 39(2), 177–187.

QUESTION 16
Screening and assessment share the objective of evaluating youth, but they are distinguished by different purposes and often require somewhat different methods. How does Assessment differ from Screening? To select and enter your answer go to Test.


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