The Treatment Intervention Inventory - Juvenile (TII Juvenile) is specifically designed for juvenile (male and female) counseling and treatment intake assessment. The TII - Juvenile is appropriate for use in counseling settings, HMO's, EAP programs, treatment intake, etc. This self-report test identifies problems that warrant intervention, referral, counseling or treatment.

Juveniles can be evasive, resistant and non-cooperative. It would be rather naïve to think that all juveniles are truthful when tested. The TII-Juvenile has a Truthfulness Scale that identifies denial, problem minimization and attempts to "fake good" or lie. Many experienced juvenile evaluators believe that a Truthfulness Scale is very important when assessing juveniles.

Juveniles (adolescents or troubled youth) are usually evaluated in settings where staff want to know if these youth have identifiable problems. Sometimes staff use the TII-Juvenile for a "second opinion". When the TII-Juvenile identifies a problem it also measures the severity of the problem. Staff can then match problem severity with treatment (intervention, counseling, impatient treatment) intensity. And we now know that it is important to match problem severity with treatment program intensity because it directly effects treatment effectiveness.

In some settings (HMO's, EAP programs, schools, community activities, etc. ) the TII-Juvenile is used to provide intervention, counseling or treatment referrals, whereas in others (counseling, substance abuse programs, treatment, etc.) the TII-Juvenile is incorporated in intake screening.

The TII-Juvenile consists of 143 items and takes 25 to 30 minutes to complete. The TII-Juvenile is written at a high fifth grade to low sixth grade reading level. Reading level and social maturity interact with age when deciding who can be tested with the TII - Juvenile test. There are nine (9) TII - Juvenile scales (measures).

1. Truthfulness Scale: Measures the youth's truthfulness while completing the TII - Juvenile. This scale identifies denial, problem minimization and attempts to "fake good."

2. Anxiety Scale: Measures nervousness, apprehension, and sematic correlates of anxiety. This score varies directly with experienced symptoms. Adolescents has been called the "age of anxiety"

3. Depression Scale: Measures dejected, self - depreciating, very unhappy attitudes, outlooks and emotional states that vary from normal to pathological. Melancholy, unhappiness and dysphoria are included in this definition of depression.

4. Self - Esteem Scale: Reflects a person's explicit appraisal and valuing of self. It incorporates an attitude of acceptance - approval versus rejection - disapproval of self.

5. Distress Scale: Measures experienced pain, worry, sorrow and suffering. Distress can involve mental, emotional and physical pain. Distress is one of the most common reasons why juveniles seek treatment.

6. Family Issues Scale: Measures family problems, concerns and issues as perceived by the troubled youth. The juvenile rates their own family and relationships. The term family includes parents, siblings, and other residents of the home.

7. Alcohol Scale: Measures alcohol use and the severity of abuse. Alcohol includes beer, wine and other liquors. Measuring the "severity" of drinking is important when trying to match drinking severity with treatment program intensity.

8. Drugs Abuse: Measures drug use (when present) and the severity of abuse. Drugs refer to marijuana, crack, barbiturates, amphetamines, cocaine, ecstasy, heroin, etc. The Drugs Scale enables staff to properly match problem severity with treatment program intensity - an important factor affecting treatment success.

9. Stress Coping Abilities Scale: Measures how well the youth handles anxiety, perceived pressure and stress. Stress exacerbates emotional and mental health symptomotology. A Stress Coping Abilities Scale score at the 90th percentile (and above) indicates the presence of an established mental health (DSM - IV) problem.

Why Use the TII - Juvenile? The TII - Juvenile can be used in counseling or treatment program intake for problem identification and severity measurement. Problem Severity is important if counseling or treatment referrals are to be made. The TII - Juvenile is a test with empirically demonstrated reliability, validity and accuracy. It's a fact that early problem identification facilitates timely intervention, counseling or treatment. Early problem identification and timely intervention or treatment improves treatment outcome results. At one sitting of approximately 25 minutes staff can acquire a vast amount of helpful information. And, early problem identification facilitates better treatment.

Validity & Reliability. TII - Juvenile research is summarized in the "TII: Inventory of Scientific Findings", which can be provided upon request. Early TII - Juvenile validation studies involved other tests (concurrent validity) that measured the same thing. Subsequent database research further supports the validity of the TII - Juvenile.

Later item reliability (alpha coefficients) for the nine (9) TII - Juvenile Scales are presented in the following table. All scales are highly reliable. All reliability coefficients (alphas) for all TII - Juvenile scales are at or above .85 which is well above the professionally accepted standard of .75.

All TII - Juvenile scales are highly reliable. Click on this TII - Juvenile Research Study link if you would like to review a TII - Juvenile study.

Confidentiality: With Behavior Data Systems (BDS) diskettes, users depress two buttons to delete all test respondents names before returning their used diskettes. With BDS's online (internet) testing platform test users must depress two buttons to delete client names. Once deleted these names can not be recalled and are gone forever. These proprietary name deletion procedures involve a few keystrokes and insure juvenile confidentiality and full compliance with HIPPA (federal regulation 45 C.F.R. 164.501).

Cost: To review TII - Juvenile cost click on the following TII - Juvenile Cost link.