Strengths
This rating refers to the youth’s ability to recognize their internal strengths and use these strengths in times of stress and in managing daily life
What is Resilience?
This rating describes the level of traumatic grief the youth is experiencing due to death or loss/separation from significant caregivers, siblings, or other significant people.
What is Traumatic Grief & Separation?
This item rates the youth’s sleep patterns (e.g., difficulties falling asleep or staying asleep, staying awake at night and sleeping during the day, or sleeping too much).
What is Sleep?
This item addresses the youth’s ability to identify and manage their anger when frustrated.
What is Anger Control?
Sexualized behaviors include behavior perceived as both sexually reactive and sexually aggressive.
What is Sexually Aggressive Behavior?
This item refers to unpaid helpers in the youth’s life.
What are Natural Supports?
This rating describes the level of dissociative states the youth may experience. Symptoms included are daydreaming, spacing/blanking out, forgetfulness, fragmentation, detachment, and rapid changes in personality often associated with traumatic experiences.
What is Dissociation?
This item describes academic achievement and functioning, based on youth’s individual developmental capabilities, not necessarily chronological age
What is School Achievement?
This item rates the level of difficulties the youth has with attachment and ability to form relationships.
What is attachment Difficulties?
criminal and status offenses that may result from youth failing to follow required behavioral standards
What is Delinquent Behavior?
This item refers to the sense of family identity (including all biological or adoptive relatives) as well as attachment, positive regard, and communication among family members.
What are Family Strengths?
This rating describes the level of difficulty managing or expressing emotions and energy levels.
What is Emotional And/or Physical Regulation?
This rating describes the difficulty a youth may have with relationships outside of the family, and particularly with peers.
What is social functioning?
This rating describes challenges with impulse control and impulsive behaviors, including motoric disruptions
What is Impulsivity/Hyperactivity?
This item isintended to describe the presence of thoughts or behaviors aimed at taking one’s life.
What is Suicide Risk?
This item is used to identify a youth’s social and relationship skills. I
What are Interpersonal skills?
This item covers the youth's overall reaction to any potentially traumatic or adverse childhood experiences, not the trauma or experience itself
What is reaction to Traumatic Life Experiences?
This rating describes youth’s relationships with those who are in the youth’s family.
What is Family Functioning?
This item rates the youth’s relationship with authority figures
What is Oppositional (Non-Compliance with Authority) ?
This item rates the youth’s violent or aggressive behavior.
What is Danger to Others?
This item is used to evaluate the nature of the school’s relationship with the youth and family, as well as the level of support the youth receives from the school.
What is Educational Setting?
This rating describes difficulty falling asleep, irritability or outbursts of anger, difficulty concentrating, hyper vigilance, and/or exaggerated startle response. Youth may also show common physical symptoms such as stomachaches and headaches.
What is Hyperarousal?
This rating describes the youth's ability to use all senses including sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste.
What is Sensory?
This is intended to describe the duration of mental health challenges experienced by the youth. Challenges include both symptoms and risk behaviors that indicate unmet mental health needs.
What is Duration of Mental Health Challenges?
This item describes the youth’s ability to make decisions from a developmental perspective.
What is Decision Making?