Children who have been sexually victimized are disadvantaged individuals and members of an oppressed segment of society who clearly merit the assistance of social workers. Responsible practice entails the evaluation of social work practice. The goals of this project were the construction and initial validation of a rapid assessment self-report measurement tool to be used with child and adolescent sexual abuse victims to ascertain the effectiveness of psychotherapeutic intervention. One hundred and three 10 to 17 year old girls who had been the targets of intrafamilial child sexual abuse (incest) participated in the research. Child and adolescent participants completed the draft instrument, the Child Report of Treatment Issue Resolution, as well as the Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children and the Children's Social Desirability Questionnaire. The research participants' caretakers completed the Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist and a background questionnaire. Clinicians provided an opinion as to the progress toward treatment issue resolution for each youngster. Reliability of the study instrument is found to be.94. Content validity was quantified through a process of expert ratings of individual item relevance. Criterion and construct validity are supported by a substantial correlation between the study instrument and the Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children ($-$.74) and a moderate correlation between the study instrument and the Child Behavior Checklist for Children ($-$.40). Evidence for construct validity with regard to the correlations between the CRTIR and Clinicians' Judgement is not provided by the sample data. The correlation between the study instrument and the Children's Social Desirability Questionnaire (.45) does not provide evidence of discriminate validity. Perhaps one of the most intriguing aspects of the results of this study has to do with the issue of social desirability and measurement issues when working with sexually abused youngsters. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-11, Section: A, page: 4556. / Adviser: Dianne Harrison Montgomery. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1995.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77592 |
| Contributors | Nelson-Gardell, Debra Marie., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 237 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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