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T1 Detection of behavioral and emotional disorders in residential child care:
using a multi-informant approach.
A1 Martín Cabrera, Eduardo
A1 González-García, Carla
A1 Del Valle, Jorge F.
A1 Bravo, Amaia
A2 Psicología Evolutiva y de la Educación
A2 Grupo de Investigación en Protección Infantil GIPI
K1 Residential Child Care
K1 Mental Health
K1 Behavioral and emotional problems
K1 Youth Self Report YSR
K1 Child Behavior Checklist CBCL
AB Young people in residential care (RC) are a group at high risk of developing mental healthproblems. One of the most commonly-used screening instruments is Achenbach andRescorla’s (2001) dimensional, multi-informant ASEBA. The main objective of this study isto analyze the level of agreement between young people in RC and their care workers (who,in Spain, are called social educators, and who have a specific university degree). 617 youngpeople in RC aged between 11 and 17 completed the Youth Self Report, while their socialeducators completed the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL). A 2x2 ANOVA was performedwith the intra-subject variable being the test scores and the inter-subject variable being inreceipt of specialist treatment or not. The results indicate that the social educators tended toscore more highly in externalizing scales, whereas the young people reported moreinternalizing problems. In the treatment group, the CBCL scores were higher than the YSRscores, but in the non-treatment group the opposite was found, particularly in internalizingscales. The results are discussed in comparison with concordance studies in the generalpopulation and we conclude that multi-informant instruments are appropriate for thepopulation in RC.
YR 2020
FD 2020
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RD 25-abr-2025