The Needs-to-Goals Gap: How informant discrepancies in youth mental health assessments impact service delivery

A De Los Reyes, E Talbott, TJ Power, JJ Michel… - Clinical Psychology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Over 60 years of research reveal that informants who observe youth in clinically relevant
contexts (eg, home, school)—typically parents, teachers, and youth clients themselves …

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 …

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 …

Systematic review and meta-analysis: international prevalence of suicidal ideation and attempt in youth

AR Van Meter, EA Knowles, EH Mintz - … of the American Academy of Child …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective Globally, rates of youth suicide vary considerably. Suicidal thoughts and behaviors
(STB) are consistently associated with risk of death by suicide. However, international trends …

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 …

Personality assessment of children and adolescents

RL Shiner, CJ Soto, F De Fruyt - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
This review offers a theoretical and practical guide to assessing a broad range of personality
differences in middle childhood and adolescence. We begin by highlighting normative …

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 …

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 …

Robust caregiver-youth discrepancies in irritability ratings on the affective reactivity index: An investigation of its origins

A Mallidi, T Meza-Cervera, K Kircanski… - Journal of affective …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Objective The Affective Reactivity Index (ARI) is widely used to assess young
people's irritability symptoms, but youth and caregivers often diverge in their assessments …

How robust is the p factor? Using multitrait-multimethod modeling to inform the meaning of general factors of youth psychopathology

AL Watts, BA Makol, IM Palumbo… - Clinical …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
We used multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) modeling to examine general factors of
psychopathology in three samples of youths (N s= 2,119, 303, and 592) for whom three …