Browsing by keyword "National Youth Screening & Assessment Project"

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    • How Young Adults Can Manage Loss of Income During the COVID-19 Pandemic
      Logan, Deirdre G. (2020-07-22)
      The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many people to lose income because of pay cuts, lay-offs, or furloughs. This loss of income can be very scary and may be the first time you’ve been on your own and out of work. It can be overwhelming to figure out how to pay your different bills (e.g., school loans, credit cards, rent, food, etc.). In order to make ends meet, you may need to use any emergency savings you’ve built, apply for unemployment benefits, or use your stimulus payment. This tip sheet provides some ideas and resources on how to manage if you’ve lost your job or are getting less pay due to the current health crisis.

    • Testing Whether Multisystemic Therapy for Emerging Adults Can Reduce Their Justice System Involvement
      Shaw, Bernadette; Peters, Michael; Logan, Deirdre G.; Sheidow, Ashli; Davis, Maryann (2018-02-01)
      Drs. Maryann Davis of the Transitions to Adulthood Center for Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Ashli Sheidow and Michael McCart of the Oregon Social Learning have previously demonstrated that Multisystemic Therapy for Emerging Adults (MST-EA) is an intervention that successfully engages and retains young adults with serious mental health conditions in treatment. This Research in the Works is about a new trial awarded by NIMH called Effectiveness Trial of Treatment to Reduce Serious Antisocial Behavior in Emerging Adults with Mental Illness. This study builds on Drs. Davis and Sheidow’s previous work and is a randomized controlled trial comparing outcomes of 240 participants assigned to either the MST-EA intervention or enhanced treatment as usual. This study will determine if MST-EA is a more effective treatment than the enhanced usual treatment for this population. Currently, there is no intervention with proven efficacy to reduce criminal behavior for emerging adults with serious mental health conditions and this study is an important step in developing one.

    • The validity of risk assessment instruments for transition-age youth
      Vincent, Gina M.; Drawbridge, Dara; Davis, Maryann (2019-02-01)
      OBJECTIVE: There is increasing recognition in the justice system that transition-age youth (TAY) are in a unique developmental period that may require tailored policies and practices. This study investigated the differential predictive validity and potential for disparate impact of both juvenile (the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk for Youth and Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory) and adult risk assessment instruments (the Historical-Clinical-Risk Management-20 [HCR-20] and the Violence Risk Appraisal Guide [VRAG]) with this age group (ages 16-24), relative to adolescents (ages 12-15) or older adults (ages 25-40). METHOD: The authors obtained secondary data sets for the 4 instruments totaling 3,353 cases. The final samples for each instrument after exclusions ranged from 1,181 cases for the VRAG to 290 cases for the HCR-20. RESULTS: Age group generally did not moderate the prediction of any recidivism or of violent recidivism. The only exception was on the HCR-20, which significantly predicted recidivism regardless of age but operated better for TAY than adults. The VRAG was the only instrument with significant mean age-related differences in risk scores. CONCLUSIONS: The potential for an unfair impact of risk assessments on TAY is minimal regardless of whether they are processed in the juvenile or adult justice systems. This preliminary evidence suggests well-validated instruments used in either system should accurately quantify the likelihood of recidivism for TAY; however, this does not necessarily translate into effective risk management for this developmental period. More research using study designs developed specifically for examining age-related differences is needed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

    • Transition-Age Youth Psychotherapy Experiences (TYPE) Study [English and Spanish versions]
      Costa, Amanda; Pici-D’Ottavio, Emma; Golden, Laura; Davis, Maryann (2017-10-01)
      This Research in the Works product describes the Transitions RTC’s Transition-Age Youth Psychotherapy Experiences (TYPE) Study. The goal of the TYPE study is to better understand 1) TAY-specific factors that contribute to treatment attrition or retention; and 2) the degree to which adult retention interventions apply to TAY. A Spanish translation of this publication is available for download.