Reported Problems in Emotionally Disturbed and Normal Adolescents

Spiritual issues in counseling: Clients' beliefs and preferences.

“…With regard to validity, Gordon and Mooney (1950) found that 92% of responding college students reported that they believed that the items they had endorsed gave a fairly complete picture of their problems. Deiker and Pryer (1973) found meaningful differences in the number of problems and problem areas endorsed in a comparison of normal and emotionally disturbed adolescents. Doleys (1964) found the MPCL to differentiate among nonclients, clients, and counseling seekers who did not actually become clients.…”

A survey of the problems of normal 15‐year‐olds

“…The Problem Check List was constructed by putting together 177 items drawn from clinical experience, informal discussions with adolescents and previously published literature and problem lists (e.g. Mooney, 195o;Lapouse and Monk, 1959;Clements and Oelke, 1967;%Vest and Zingle, 1969;Deiker and Pryer, 1973;Collins and Harper, 1974;Kalberer, 1975). It was decided not to include items on physical aspects of sex and puberty in order to make the fist generally acceptable and to avoid unnecessary embarrassment.…”

An Item Factor Analysis of the Mooney Problem Check List

“…Although the instrument was originally designed to be used primarily as a stimulus to begin therapy (Mooney, 1942), preliminary attempts to explore its scale properties have shown meaningful differences in the number of problems checked, as well as in &dquo;subscale&dquo; scores, for age, sex, and clinical group (Deiker and Pryer, 1973). Even from the standpoint of the MPCL's stated function, information on the factor structure of its items would be of considerable value.…”