Identifying Children's Needs When Parents Access Drug Treatment: The Utility of a Brief Screening Measure

Gruenert, Stefan; Ratnam, Samantha S.; Tsantefski, Menka

doi:10.1300/j160v06n01_07

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“…However, lower SDQ scores were observed in our study than in previous studies concerning Dutch children from at-risk populations (Kaptein, Jansen, Vogels, & Reijneveld, 2008;van der Zanden, Speetjens, Arntz, & Onrust, 2010;van Santvoort, Hosman, van Doesum, & Janssens, 2014;Wansink, Janssens, Hoencamp, Middelkoop, & Hosman, 2015). Furthermore, studies that used the SDQ to address psychosocial problems in CSAP showed comparable (Dawe & Harnett, 2007;Comiskey, Milness, & Daly, 2017) or somewhat lower (Gruenert et al, 2006;Redelinghuys & Dar, 2008) mean scores than those reported in children of parents with predominantly nonsubstance-related mental disorders (van Santvoort et al, 2013;van der Zanden et al, 2010;Wansink et al, 2015). Still, the SDQ scores in the present study were the lowest.…”

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“…Possible explanations for the perceived difficulties associated with routine assessments of parenthood and CSAP in adult treatment may be that workers are often preoccupied with the mental health problems of the parent, or that they fear discussing parenting might interrupt the client-worker relationship. With regard to family-related issues, professionals may feel they have insufficient time or skills to conduct adequate assessments (Gruenert, Ratnam, & Tsantefski, 2006). Aside from this, clients can fear the involvement of Child Protective Services when they open up about their parenting (Lander et al, 2013).…”

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“…Of these children, 40% showed signs of internalizing problem behavior and 37% showed signs of externalizing problem behavior. Another example is provided by Gruenert et al (2006), who assessed the psychosocial wellbeing of 48 CSAP using the parent version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ; Goodman, 1997) during parents' participation in substance abuse treatment and a family intervention. Results showed significantly higher levels of emotional symptoms, conduct problems, hyperactivity, and peer problems in CSAP when compared to a general population sample.…”

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Risk of Psychosocial Problems in Children Whose Parents Receive Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment

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Spijkerman

Glopper

2017

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Abstract:The entrance of parents into substance abuse treatment provides a unique opportunity to discuss parenting with them, and to inquire about the psychological wellbeing of their children. This is important because parental substance abuse is associated with an increased risk for the development of mental health problems in children. In this study, clients from a Dutch outpatient treatment facility who had custody of or regular contact with their children completed the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) about their children aged 4 to 17 years (N = 99), after being referred to a parenting consultation with a specialized professional. Compared to other studies conducted in Western Europe and Australia with similar at-risk populations, the SDQ results in the present study suggested a lower percentage of children with psychosocial problem behavior. Still, 29% of the children in our sample showed psychosocial problems in the clinical range. According to logistic regression analyses, which tested associations between client and family characteristics and risk of psychosocial problems, 5 factors (client's gender, education level, presence of financial debts, child's age, and absence of siblings) were associated with a higher likelihood of one or more types of psychosocial problems. Present findings suggest that, of children whose substance-abusing parents enter outpatient treatment, almost one third may have psychosocial problems that require further assessment and treatment.

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“…Two [11,33] were excluded as they did not evaluate the original 5-factor structure; the sample size for one was too small [34]; and one did not meet our predefined criteria [35] for convergent validity set out in box 1 (i.e. they looked at convergence of the scores between parent and teacher versions of SDQ, rather than between SDQ and another measure).…”

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“…Five were not included in data synthesis: two did not look at the original 5-factor structure [33,68]; one reported scores combined across subscales [69] and one across samples [54]; with sample size for one being too small (n=48) [34].…”

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A systematic review of evidence for the psychometric properties of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire

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Czuba

McPherson

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International Journal of Behavioral Development

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Objective: A systematic review aiming to identify and critically appraise evidence for the validity and reliability of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in pre-school children (aged 3-5). Method:The review followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta- Results: 41 studies were included (56 manuscripts). Two qualitative studies examined content and cultural validity, revealing issues with some questions. Six studies discussed language validations and recommended some changes to the wording. Evidence for discriminative validity was good (Area Under the Curve ≥ 0.80) as was evidence for convergent validity (weighted average correlation coefficients ≥0.50), except for the Pro-social scale. There was limited support for discriminant validity but good evidence for the 5-factor structural validity of the tool. One study demonstrated measurement invariance across ethnicity. Sensitivity was below 70% and specificity above 70% in most studies that examined this. One study showed that caseness indicators varied between countries. Internal consistency of the total difficulty scale was good (weighted average Cronbach's alpha parents' and teachers' version 0.79 and 0.82) but weaker for other subscales (weighted average parents' and teachers' range 0.49-0.69 and 0.69-0.83). Inter-rater reliability between parents was moderate (correlation coefficients range 0.42-0.64) and between teachers strong (range 0.59-0.81). Cross-informant consistency was weak to moderate (weighted average correlation coefficients range 0.25-0.45).Test-retest reliability was mostly inadequate. One study demonstrated moderate size effect sizes.Conclusions: Evidence for a number of psychometric properties is strong. However, the lack of evidence for test-retest reliability, cultural validity and criterion validity should be addressed given the wide-spread implementation of the tool in routine clinical practice, including in New Zealand. Furthermore, the moderate level of consistency between different informants indicate that an assessment of a pre-schooler should not rely on a single informant.

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Identifying Children's Needs When Parents Access Drug Treatment: The Utility of a Brief Screening Measure

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Risk of Psychosocial Problems in Children Whose Parents Receive Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment

Risk of Psychosocial Problems in Children Whose Parents Receive Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment

A systematic review of evidence for the psychometric properties of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire

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