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PAI-A Clinical Interpretive Report
PAI-A Clinical Interpretive Report 1
PAI-A Interpretive Report
PAI-A Score Report
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PAI-A Clinical Interpretive Report
PAI-A Clinical Interpretive Report 1
PAI-A Interpretive Report
PAI-A Score Report
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PAI-A SP(Software Portfolio) is used to score and interpret PAI-A results, the PAI-A SP provides comprehensive and accurate Clinical Interpretive Reports based on on-screen administration of the PAI-A or hand-entry of an adolescent's item or scale raw scores.
The PAI-A was designed to complement its parent instrument, the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI). Its development grew out of the expressed interest of many professionals who wished to use the PAI with the adolescent population in clinical settings. As a result, the PAI-A closely parallels the adult version of the instrument -it retains both the structure and most of the items from the PAI. In addition, the PAI-A demonstrates clinical utility with adolescents ages 12 to 18 years in a variety of settings. The PAI-A provides psychologists working with children and/or adolescents in clinical practice, in schools or in forensic settings with vital information to assist in decision making.
The clinical constructs assessed by the PAI-A were selected on the basis of their importance within the nosology of mental disorder and their significance in contemporary diagnostic practice. These constructs assess experiences (e.g., suicidal ideation, depression, anxiety) that are expressed with reasonable consistency across the life span versus constructs that are specifically pertinent to diagnostic concepts applicable to adolescents. In some instances, items were altered to be particularly applicable to the experiences of adolescents, but of greater significance in item selection was an item's ability to provide a direct assessment of different components of the relevant psychopathological construct.
The self-administered PAI-A is composed of 264 items that comprise 22 non-overlapping scales--four Validity scales, 11 Clinical scales, five Treatment Consideration scales, and two Interpersonal scales. Ten of these scales contain conceptually driven sub-scales designed to facilitate interpretation and coverage of the full breadth of complex clinical constructs.
The standardisation of the PAI-A utilised information obtained from two participant groups. The first sample was composed of 707 students from the community in junior and senior high school and college who were between the ages of 12 and 18 years from 21 States. This sample is comparable to the U.S. population (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 2003) for age, gender and race/ethnicity. The second sample -the clinical sample -was composed of 1,160 adolescents from a total of 78 clinical sites. More than half of this group was tested in an outpatient mental health setting, with the next largest group evaluated in juvenile or correctional settings.
Several widely used instruments in the field of personality and psychopathology were applied in the examination of external correlates of various PAI-A scales. These included broad-based assessment instruments that served as referents for a wide variety of PAI-A scales as well as more focused measures that targeted specific PAI-A constructs. These measures included:
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