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A Model for the Screening and Identification of Depressed Children andAdolescents in School Settings

A Model for the Screening and Identification of Depressed Children andAdolescents in School Settings This articledescribes a procedure designed to screen and identify children and adolescentsin school settings who manifest clinically relevant levels of depression. Themultiple-stage procedure is designed to avoid identifying children andadolescents as clinically depressed when in fact their depression is of atransient and episodic nature. It also utilizes a multimethod assessmentapproach, thus dealing with the issue of method variance and increasing thevalidity of the identification procedure. The screening and identificationprocedure consists of three stages. The first stage involves school orgrade-wide evaluation of students using self-report measures of depression. Thesecond stage consists of the reassessment of all students who have scored abovea predetermined cutoff score on the first testing. Students who score above thecutoff on the second screening are administered an individual clinical interviewfor depression as the main component of the third stage. The application of thisprocedure in school settings is described, and suggestions of specificassessment measures of depression in children and adolescents are provided. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png School Psychology American Psychological Association

A Model for the Screening and Identification of Depressed Children andAdolescents in School Settings

Reynolds, William M.
School Psychology , Volume 1 (2): 13 – Jan 1, 1986
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American Psychological Association
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Copyright © 1986 American Psychological Association
ISSN
1045-3830
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1939-1560
DOI
10.1037/h0090504
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Abstract

This articledescribes a procedure designed to screen and identify children and adolescentsin school settings who manifest clinically relevant levels of depression. Themultiple-stage procedure is designed to avoid identifying children andadolescents as clinically depressed when in fact their depression is of atransient and episodic nature. It also utilizes a multimethod assessmentapproach, thus dealing with the issue of method variance and increasing thevalidity of the identification procedure. The screening and identificationprocedure consists of three stages. The first stage involves school orgrade-wide evaluation of students using self-report measures of depression. Thesecond stage consists of the reassessment of all students who have scored abovea predetermined cutoff score on the first testing. Students who score above thecutoff on the second screening are administered an individual clinical interviewfor depression as the main component of the third stage. The application of thisprocedure in school settings is described, and suggestions of specificassessment measures of depression in children and adolescents are provided.

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School Psychology – American Psychological Association

Published: Jan 1, 1986

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