Development and Initial Validation of the Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms–34

Abstract

A short version of the Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms–62 (CCAPS-62) was created via three studies. The final short version (CCAPS-34), which contains 34 items and 7 subscales, demonstrated good discrimination power, support for the proposed factor structure, strong initial convergent validity, and adequate test–retest stability over 1-week and 2-week intervals.

Counseling services for Asian, Latino/a, and White American students: Initial severity, session attendance, and outcome.

“…Notwithstanding this discrepancy, in counseling settings, racial/ethnic minority students have often self-reported greater levels of distress compared to White American students. This pattern has been fairly consistent across several reliable and valid measures, including the Outcome Questionnaire-45 (OQ-45; Lambert et al, 2004) and two versions of the Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms (Locke et al, 2012), with few exceptions (e.g., Lambert et al, 2006). …”

Effectiveness of Mindfulness‐Based Stress Reduction Bibliotherapy: A Preliminary Randomized Controlled Trial

“…Intervention participants also were asked to complete an online survey each week over the 10‐week intervention period, containing questions about their use of the workbook and guided meditation recordings, a weekly workbook content quiz, and a brief measure of general distress, the Counseling Center Assessment of Psychological Symptoms‐34 (CCAPS‐34; Locke et al., ). Workbook content quiz questions were collected for subsequent exploratory analyses and will not be reported here.…”

Specific Aspects of Minority Stress Associated With Depression Among LDS Affiliated Non-Heterosexual Adults

“…Although the CCAPS was designed primarily for use with collegiate populations, it was adopted for the current study due to its broad coverage of relevant psychological symptoms in the general population. The CCAPS contains 7-subscales, including Depression, Eating Concerns, Alcohol Use, Generalized Anxiety, Hostility, Social Anxiety, and Academic Distress, which have all evidenced strong correlations with reputable measures of similar constructs (Locke et al, 2012). For the current study, only the depression scale was used.…”

“…The CCAPS-34 (Locke et al, 2012) is an abbreviated version of the CCAPS-62 (Locke et al, 2011), both of which are widely researched assessments used at college counseling centers to evaluate psychological symptoms among college students. Although the CCAPS was designed primarily for use with collegiate populations, it was adopted for the current study due to its broad coverage of relevant psychological symptoms in the general population.…”