Examining clinical judgment in an adaptive intervention design: The fast track program.
Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: Although clinical judgment is often used in assessment and treatment planning, rarely has research examined its reliability, validity, or impact in practice settings. This study tailored the frequency of home visits in a prevention program for aggressive- disruptive children (n = 410; 56% minority) on the basis of 2 kinds of clinical judgment: ratings of parental functioning using a standardized multi-item scale and global assessments of family need for services. Stronger reliability and better concurrent and predictive validity emerged for the 1st kind of clinical judgment than for the 2nd. Exploratory analyses suggested that using ratings of parental functioning to tailor treatment recommendations improved the impact of the intervention by the end of 3rd grade but using more global assessments of family need did not.
Institutions: Pennsylvania State University, University of Michigan
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: MULTISITE PREVENTION OF ADOLESCENT CONDUCT PROBLEMS, Multi-site Prevention of Adolescent Conduct Problems, PREVENTION RESEARCH WITH AGGRESSIVE, REJECTED CHILDREN, G2963758154, Optimizing Prevention of Costly Adult Outcomes, Multisite Prevention of Adolescent Conduct Problems, G4975352828, Center for Prevention and Treatment Methodology, MULTISITE PREVENTION OF CONDUCT PROBLEMS, Adolescent Drug Use: Development, Prevention and Policy, MULTISITE PREVENTION OF CONDUCT DISORDER, RISK &PREVENTION OF CHILD DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR DISORDERS, MULTISITE PREVENTION OF ADOLESCENT PROBLEM BEHAVIORS
OpenAlex ID: W1998970724