Journal of Pediatric Psychology 14(4) pp. 629-639, 1989
© 1989 Society of Pediatric Psychology
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The Pediatric Symptom Checklist: Validation in the Real World of Middle School1
Child Psychiatry Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Day Junior High School Newton, Massachusetts
2All correspondence should be addressed to Michael S. Jellinek, Child Psychiatry Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, 15 Parkman Street, ACC 725, Boston, Massachusetts 02114.
Examined the validity of the Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC), a brief parent-completed psychosocial screening questionnaire, in a sample of 166 students from a public middle school. Positive screening on the parent PSC was significantly associated with independent ratings by the students' guidance counselor and teachers of the need for regular counseling; any academic failure during the next 2 years; and PSCs competed by the students about themselves. Most students who screened positive on the parent PSC were found to have significant problems in at least one of the above areas. The PSC also identified a group of students whose difficulties were previously unknown to school personnel. For pediatric psychologists, guidance counselors, and pediatricians who need to identify middle-school students with serious psychosocial problems, the PSC appears to be a valid and useful first-stage screening instrument.
Key words: Pediatric Symptom Checklist; psychosocial screening; psychosocial dysfunction; adolescence; middle school; junior high school.
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