Wednesday, January 09, 2008

[USA] Concordance Between Adolescent Reports of Childhood Abuse and Child Protective Service Determinations in an At-Risk Sample of Young Adolescents
Child Maltreatment, Vol. 13, No. 1, 14-26 (2008)
http://cmx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/13/1/14?rss=1
Mark D. Everson ; Jamie B. Smith ; Jon M. Hussey ; Diana English ; Alan J. Litrownik ; Howard Dubowitz ; Richard Thompson ; Elizabeth Dawes Knight ; Desmond K. Runyan
"This study examines the concordance between adolescent reports of abuse and abuse determinations from Child Protective Service (CPS) agencies. It also compares the utility of adolescent reports of abuse, relative to CPS determinations in predicting adolescent psychological adjustment."
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