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Development and Validation of a Brief Mental Health Screening Instrument for Newly Incarcerated Adults
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Ford, Julian D.; Trestman, Robert L.; Wiesbrock, Valerie; Zhang, Wanli – Assessment, 2007
The authors report the development and initial psychometric evaluation of gender-specific brief screening instruments to identify undetected psychiatric impairment on incarceration. Women and men completed the Correctional Mental Health Screen (CMHS), a 56-item screen derived from validated measures. Representative subsamples completed structured…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Mental Health, Test Validity, Mental Disorders