Introduction to the special issue. A dozen years of demonstrating that informant discrepancies are more than measurement error: Toward guidelines for integrating …

A De Los Reyes, CC Epkins - Journal of Clinical Child & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Validly characterizing youth mental health phenomena requires evidence-based
approaches to assessment. An evidence-based assessment cannot rely on a “gold …

Advancing equity in access to school mental health through multiple informant decision-making

N von der Embse, A De Los Reyes - Journal of School Psychology, 2024 - Elsevier
There has been a substantial increase in the number of students with mental health needs,
yet significant discrepancies exist in access to timely intervention. Traditional gatekee** to …

Editorial Statement About JCCAP's 2023 Special Issue on Informant Discrepancies in Youth Mental Health Assessments: Observations, Guidelines, and Future …

A De Los Reyes, CC Epkins… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Child and Adolescent Psychology (JCCAP) included a Special Section about the use of
multi-informant approaches to measure child and adolescent (ie, hereafter referred to …

The operations triad model and youth mental health assessments: Catalyzing a paradigm shift in measurement validation

A De Los Reyes, M Wang, MD Lerner… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Researchers strategically assess youth mental health by soliciting reports from multiple
informants. Typically, these informants (eg, parents, teachers, youth themselves) vary in the …

Future directions on BIPOC youth mental health: The importance of cultural rituals in the COVID-19 pandemic

JM Causadias, L Alcalá, KS Morris… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Culture plays an important role in the development of mental health, especially during
childhood and adolescence. However, less is known about how participation in cultural …

Conceptual, methodological, and measurement factors that disqualify use of measurement invariance techniques to detect informant discrepancies in youth mental …

A De Los Reyes, FA Tyrell, AL Watts… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
On page 1 of his classic text, states,“Measurement invariance is built on the notion that a
measuring device should function the same way across varied conditions, so long as those …

Twenty-year changes of adolescent mental health and substance use: a Finnish population-based time-trend study

K Mishina, E Heinonen, L Lempinen… - European Child & …, 2024 - Springer
This time-trend study assesses changes in mental health and substance use among Finnish
adolescents from 1998 to 2018. Representative samples of adolescents (N= 6,600) aged 13 …

Data-Informed communication: How measurement-based care can optimize child psychotherapy

EH Connors, AW Childs, S Douglas… - Administration and Policy …, 2025 - Springer
Measurement-based care (MBC) research and practice, including clinical workflows and
systems to support MBC, are grounded in adult-serving mental health systems. MBC …

Integrating multi-informant reports of youth mental health: A construct validation test of Kraemer and Colleagues'(2003) Satellite Model

NR Charamut, SJ Racz, M Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Accurately assessing youth mental health involves obtaining reports from multiple
informants who typically display low levels of correspondence. This low correspondence …

The Work and Social Adjustment Scale for Youth: Psychometric properties of the teacher version and evidence of contextual variability in psychosocial impairments.

A De Los Reyes, CR Cook, M Sullivan… - Psychological …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Effective mental health services require accurate assessment of psychosocial impairments
linked to mental health concerns. Youth who experience these impairments do so within and …