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Needs Assessment of Children and Adolescents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2000

Leopold Kroll ,
Richard Harrington  and
Susan Bailey
Leopold Kroll
Affiliation:
Department of Child Psychiatry, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Hospital Road, Pendlebury, Manchester M27 4HA
Richard Harrington
Affiliation:
Department of Child Psychiatry, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Hospital Road, Pendlebury, Manchester M27 4HA
Susan Bailey
Affiliation:
Forensic Adolescent Community Team Service, Mental Health Services of Salford NHS Trust, Bury New Road, Prestwich M25 3BL
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Abstract

Needs assessment is a frequently used term by all agencies involved in the welfare of children and adolescents, and is a key method in health service planning (Stevens & Raftery, 1994). However, there is often a lack of clarity about the meaning of the phrase ‘needs assessment’ (Cohen & Eastman, 1997). In addition, for CAMHS services there are few established research or clinical instruments to assess the needs of individuals. This review sets out first to describe some key concepts and issues and, second, to describe the development of a needs assessment instrument for adolescents with complex and multiple problems, and how such an instrument can be used in clinical and research settings.

Keywords

Needs assessmentmeasurementchild and adolescent psychiatrymulti-agency
Type
Measurement Issues
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Child Psychology and Psychiatry Review , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , May 2000 , pp. 81 - 88
Copyright
© 2000 Association for Child Psychology and Psychiatry

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