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    Comprehensive Adolescent Severity Inventory (CASI) : Assessing Alcohol Problems: A Guide For Clinicians and Researchers

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    source listed on each fact sheet.

    Assessing Alcohol Problems: A Guide for Clinicians and Researchers

    Comprehensive Adolescent Severity Inventory (CASI)

    BRIEF DESCRIPTION The CASI is a comprehensive, semi-structured, clinical assessment and


    outcomes interview. It is comprised of 10 independent modules, each
    incorporating objective, focused, and concrete questions. Modules include
    health, family, stressful life events, legal status, sexual behavior, AOD use,
    mental health functioning, peer relationships, education, and use of free
    time. Questions are formatted to identify whether certain behaviors have
    ever occurred regularly, how old the adolescent was when they first occurred
    regularly, and whether they occurred regularly during the past year (past
    month and other 11 months). Each module assesses whether the adolescent
    acknowledges the presence of problems and obtains his/her rating of discom­
    fort. The CASI also includes questions designed to assess the strength-base
    of the youth.

    TARGET POPULATION □ Adults


     Adolescents (over 16 years)
    Groups for which this instrument might be especially helpful?
    Adolescents suspected of AOD involvement and related problems

    ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUES Number of items: Depends


    Number of subscales: 10 modules
    Format(s): □ Pencil-and-paper self-administered
     Interview
    □ Observation
    □ Computer self-administered
     Other (describe) Computer administered by interviewer
    Time required for administration: 45 to 90 minutes
    Administered by: Professional
    Training required for administration?  yes □ no
    Comments: 2-day training

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    Comprehensive Adolescent Severity Inventory (CASI)

    SCORING Time required to score/interpret: 15 minutes


    Scored by: Administrator
    Scoring key?  yes □ no
    Computerized scoring or interpretation available? □ yes  no
    Norms available?  yes □ no
    Instrument normed on subgroups?  yes □ no
    Which groups? By age, gender, and ethnicity

    PSYCHOMETRICS Have reliability studies been done?  yes □ no


    What measure(s) of reliability was used?
     Test-retest
    □ Split half
     Internal consistency
    Have validity studies been done?  yes □ no
    What measures of validity have been derived?
     Content

     Criterion (predictive, concurrent, “postdictive”)

     Construct

    CLINICAL UTILITY OF INSTRUMENT Assess substance use, substance abuse and dependence symptoms,
    and related problems. Assists with referral and treatment decisions.

    RESEARCH APPLICABILITY Problem identification and for monitoring treatment outcome.

    SOURCE, COST AND COPYRIGHT ISSUES Copyright:  yes □ no


    Cost: Pencil-and-paper version is free of charge, but the 2-day training session
    is $2,000; contact System Measures for the cost of the computer program.
    Source: System Measures, Inc.
    P.O. Box 506
    Spring Mount, PA 19478
    Phone: 610-287-2786
    E-mail: [email protected]

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    Assessing Alcohol Problems: A Guide for Clinicians and Researchers

    SOURCE REFERENCE Meyers, K., McLellan, A.T., Jaeger, J.L. & Pettinati, H.M. (1995). The development
    of the Comprehensive Addiction Severity Index for Adolescents (CASI-A): An interview
    for assessing the multiple problems of adolescents. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment,
    12, 181-193.

    SUPPORTING REFERENCES Meyers, K., Hagan, T.A., Zanis, D., Webb, A., Frantz, J., Ring-Kurtz, S., Rutherford, M.
    & McLellan, A.T. (1999). Critical issues in adolescent substance abuse assessment.
    Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
    Riggs, P.D., Mikulich, S. K., Whitmore, E.A. & Crowley, T.J. (1999). Relationship of
    ADHD, depression, and non-tobacco substance use disorders to nicotine dependence
    in substance-dependent delinquents. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 54, 195-205.

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