The utility of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire as a screening measure among children and adolescents who light fires

Lambie, Ian; Krynen, Ariana

doi:10.1080/14789949.2016.1275747

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“…The findings of the current study indicate the need for increased awareness of the identified risk factors by fire-service programs and child and adolescent mental health services, so these factors can be subsequently addressed adequately through intervention. As such, these findings suggest the necessity to shift away from the traditional focus of assessing risk for firesetting recidivism, and a move toward the adoption of validated risk assessment measures for a broader range of difficulties (such as the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, a brief, validated screening measure of emotional, behavioral, and relationship difficulties that has been used with adolescent firesetters to some extent; see Lambie & Krynen, 2017). This is not to say that assessment of risk for firesetting recidivism is not important.…”

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Risk Factors for Future Offending in Child and Adolescent Firesetters Following a Fire Service Intervention Program

Lambie¹,

Randell

Krynen

et al. 2019

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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Research has established links between youth firesetting and general antisocial behavior. The current study sought to better understand these links by identifying fire-specific and general risk factors for offending from a national sample of children and adolescent firesetters ( N = 1,790), from a New Zealand Fire Service intervention program, up to 10 years after intervention. Most (62%) had committed an offense post-intervention, primarily moderate or severe offending. Only 5% had committed an arson offense post-intervention. Nearly all measures of victimization, psychosocial/emotional problems, previous conduct problem behavior, and child-welfare history were associated with post-intervention offending and/or offending severity. Pre-intervention offending and being older (aged 12+ years) at intervention were the major independent risk factors for offending. A protective factor was firesetting having occurred at home. Findings highlight young firesetters’ broad patterns of pervasive antisocial behavior and multiple adverse family, environmental, and individual factors that accompany and contribute to wide-ranging, non-fire-related offending.

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Risk Factors for Future Offending in Child and Adolescent Firesetters Following a Fire Service Intervention Program

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Randell

Krynen

et al. 2019

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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“…The results of a similar study also show that 40.5% of children of 5-14 who suffer from lower urinary tract [22]. One previous study report that conduct disorders have been experienced by 26.54-42% of the adolescents in India [6], [4].…”

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“…The results of this study indicate that the total difficulty experienced by the adolescents with legal problems reaches 67.8%. The total difficulty found among the adolescents in India is 40% [4], 78.6% among children of 11-13, and 40% among children of 14-17 in New Zealand [22], 25.7% among the adolescents in Pakistan [23], and 34.4% of the adolescents with Congenital Heart Disease in the Netherlands [24].…”

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Factors Correlating with the Emotional and Behavioral Problems among Adolescents with Legal Problems

Hartini

Penyami

Prabandari

2021

Open Access Maced J Med Sci

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BACKGROUND: The prevalence of emotional and behavioral problems (EBP) among adolescents (12–18 years) in Indonesia is 28.4%. These problems are related to age, sex, family economic level, father’s education, peer relationships, psychosocial skills, and family mental health status. However, factors related to EBPs among adolescents who are dealing with law cases have not been widely reported. AIM: The purpose of this study is to find out factors correlating with the EBPs among adolescents with legal problems. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional design was used in this study. Fifty-nine adolescents with legal problems who were sheltered at the Social Protection and Rehabilitation Centre for Adolescents (SPRCA) and the Guidance Institution for Children (GIC) served respondents. Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaires were used to measure the EBP among adolescents. The Pearson Product Moment and linear regressions were used to analyze the data. RESULTS: The prevalence of the EBP among adolescents with legal problems at SPRCA and GIC is 67.8%. The correlations of emotional problems, behavioral problems, hyperactivity, and peer problems with the EBP among adolescents with legal problems are 67.8%, 64.4%, 13.6%, and 57.6%, respectively. Age and psychosocial skills have an effect of 15.7% on the EBP among adolescents. CONCLUSION: Age and psychosocial skills correlate with the EBP among adolescents with legal problems at the SPRCA and GIC.

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“…Research in Aotearoa NZ has found the SDQ has utility, particularly in identifying the strengths of rangatahi in youth justice facility's educational programmes (Gilmore & Waru, 2012) as well as identifying externalising behaviours such as conduct problems in young firesetters (Lambie & Krynen, 2017). However, in the latter study with rangatahi who set fires, there is evidence that also suggests the SDQ's limitations.…”

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“…However, in the latter study with rangatahi who set fires, there is evidence that also suggests the SDQ's limitations. When investigating the utility of the SDQ as a screening measure among children and adolescents (N = 57) who light fires (6 to 17 years of age), Lambie and Krynen (2017) found scores on the SDQ, defined fire-setters in their sample, at high risk of clinically significant externalising symptoms, but at low risk of clinically significant emotional problems. This finding of non-clinical levels of emotional symptoms contrasts with decades of research that has found emotional difficulties are robustly associated with risk of fire setting behaviours in children, adolescents, and adults (e.g., Dalhuisen et al, 1995;Räsänen et al, 1995;Stockburger & Omar, 2014;Wyatt, 2018 for a review).…”

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Investigating The Autobiographical Memories Of Adolescent Boys In Youth Justice Facilities

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Abstract This PhD thesis used a mixed method approach to investigate the life narratives and autobiographical memories of 41 adolescent boys, while they were detained in youth justice facilities in the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand. The overarching aim of the research was to determine how these rangatahi reflected on their important past experiences and whether the meaning they made of their experiences was associated with aspects of their wellbeing. Given the multiple challenges these rangatahi are likely to have experienced, and the likelihood that they would have received little support to help them process their life experiences, the current research hypothesised that higher levels of reflection would be associated with poorer wellbeing during adolescence. Māori and Pacific adolescents are disproportionally detained in youth justice facilities in Aotearoa New Zealand and thus, this research was placed within the historical and contemporary contexts that relate to the disproportionate number of Māori and Pacific adolescents in the justice system. This research was conducted within a Western scientific framework, but the researcher, a tauiwi/non-Māori researcher, (see Appendix A for positioning statement), was guided by the Te Ara Tika methodological framework (Hudson et al., 2010), the over-arching values of Pacific peoples (Ministry of Pacific People’s Report, 2018), and governed by academic supervisors, a Māori academic/cultural supervisor, and a Research Whānau. The three cross-sectional quantitative studies investigated how these rangatahi organised their life experiences into their life narrative (Study One), interpreted and evaluated important events in their lives (Study Two), and reflected and gained insight from those experiences (Study Three). The relationships between the way these rangatahi/adolescents organised and made meaning out of their past experiences and their self-esteem, internalising symptoms/externalising behaviour and future orientation (how much control they felt they had over and hope they felt about their future) were investigated. In addition, thematic analysis was used to analyse the rangatahi/adolesents’ recall of significant life experiences (self-defining memories) to gain a richer understanding of the participants’ reflections on their childhoods. The ‘My Life as a Film’ autobiographical memory protocol was developed for this research to elicit the participants’ life narratives and three specific self-defining memories (a time when they hurt someone, a time when an adult was especially kind or caring towards them, and a turning point event/an event that changed their life). All of the adolescents could recount their life narrative and recall a time when they hurt someone, all bar one of the rangatahi/adolescents could recall a turning point event in their lives, but 32 out of 41 of the adolescents could not recall a specific memory of a time in their life where an adult was especially kind or caring towards them. The adolescents’ ability to recall other events but not a time of adult kindness suggests this is not a memory deficit but represents a poverty of adult care across the multiple contexts of their lives (e.g., whānau/family, education, health system, justice system, system of State-care). Qualitative analyses of the narratives found the themes expressed by the rangatahi in their autobiographical narratives highlighted the significant adversity these rangatahi/adolescents have experienced. The adolescents’ memories suggest there had been a systematic failure across their childhoods to meet their needs for adult support and care. The quantitative analyses found rangatahi/adolescents who had more highly organised life narratives (greater number of lifetime periods containing specific memories), felt more positively about themselves, (higher self-esteem), than rangatahi/adolescents with poorly organised life narratives. In addition, rangatahi/adolescents who could consider the perspectives of others, when recalling events where they had hurt people, had lower levels of conduct problems than rangatahi/adolescents who did not discuss the negative emotional experiences of others in their narratives. Finally, as predicted, we found adolescents who reflected more on their past felt less confident about their capabilities and more negative about themselves than adolescents who expressed less reflection. Given that rangatahi who offend are often asked to reflect on their lives in rehabilitation and therapeutic programmes, and the importance of positive self-esteem to behavioural change, this finding highlights the need for the consideration of developmental factors when developing policy and programmes for rangatahi in the justice system. While self-reflection may support positive change for adults in the justice system, the current findings suggest that may not be the case for adolescents. Limitations, implications for the key findings and consideration of how the quantitative and qualitative findings may impact policy and future support for justice-involved adolescents are explored.

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The utility of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire as a screening measure among children and adolescents who light fires

Cited by 7 publications

References 25 publications

Risk Factors for Future Offending in Child and Adolescent Firesetters Following a Fire Service Intervention Program

Risk Factors for Future Offending in Child and Adolescent Firesetters Following a Fire Service Intervention Program

Factors Correlating with the Emotional and Behavioral Problems among Adolescents with Legal Problems

Investigating The Autobiographical Memories Of Adolescent Boys In Youth Justice Facilities

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