The Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (JCCAP) has published a special issue on the most common outcome of assessments of youth mental health, namely discrepancies among the reports provided by informants such as parents, teachers, and youth themselves. This is a special issue that is 12 years in the making, as it serves as a sequel to a special section JCCAP published on this same topic, back in 2011.
The publisher agreed to make all 9 articles in the issue free to access until the end of 2023! Below is the link to the full issue, where you will find all 9 articles:
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hcap20/52/1
A big thanks to all of the contributors. The issue includes:
- A new measurement validation paradigm designed to address problems with using the multitrait-multimethod matrix when assessing youth
- Two authoritative reviews on multi-informant approaches to assessing therapeutic processes, namely the therapeutic alliance and treatment fidelity
- Papers that represent the latest work on informant discrepancies when planning treatment, assessing autism spectrum concerns, and assessing limited prosocial emotions
- A Future Directions piece focused on “next steps” in research on discrepant reports when assessing suicide risk
- An editorial statement co-authored by 70 scholars in youth mental health, that discusses the special issue in the context of the 60-year history of research and theory on informant discrepancies in youth mental health assessments
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