Department of Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Avenue, Waterloo, ON N2L3C5, Canada.
Psychol Assess. 2010 Jun;22(2):259-68. doi: 10.1037/a0018507.
The present article describes and evaluates the Youth Counseling Impact Scale (YCIS; L. Bickman et al., 2007), a recently developed therapeutic process measure that assesses youths' perceptions of the impact individual mental health counseling sessions have on their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. This measure is intended for frequent use in the mental health treatment of youths aged 11-18. It provides a general Impact score as well as two subscale scores: Insight and Change. Five hundred youths receiving mental health services participated in this investigation. Classical test theory, item response theory, confirmatory factor nalysis, and analyses of the relationship of the YCIS with other scales were used to evaluate the research questions. The results suggest that, overall, the YCIS is a well-functioning scale with good psychometric properties. The proposed model for 1 primary general factor of impact and 2 secondary factors (Insight and Change) fit the data well. Specific weaknesses of the scale are discussed, and possible improvements are suggested.
本文描述和评估了青少年咨询影响量表（YCIS；L. Bickman 等人，2007），这是一种最近开发的治疗过程衡量工具，用于评估青少年对个别心理健康咨询会议对其思想、感受和行为的影响的看法。该衡量工具旨在频繁用于 11-18 岁青少年的心理健康治疗。它提供了一个一般影响分数以及两个分量表分数：洞察力和变化。500 名接受心理健康服务的青少年参与了这项调查。经典测试理论、项目反应理论、验证性因子分析以及 YCIS 与其他量表关系的分析用于评估研究问题。结果表明，总体而言，YCIS 是一个运作良好、具有良好心理测量特性的量表。提出的影响的 1 个主要一般因素和 2 个次要因素（洞察力和变化）的模型很好地适用于数据。还讨论了量表的具体弱点，并提出了可能的改进建议。
