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Evaluation of Adolescent Offenders with Substance Abuse

Validation of the SASSI with Conduct-Disordered Youth

RICHARD ROGERS

University of North Texas

MARY LOUISE CASHEL

University of North Texas

JOHN JOHANSEN

Vernon State Hospital, Vernon, Texas

KENNETH W. SEWELL

University of North Texas

CHRISTINE GONZALEZ

University of North Texas

The adolescent version of the Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory (SASSI-A; Miller, 1990) was developed to assess unacknowledged substance abuse. Despite its widespread use in clinical and forensic settings, the SASSI-A has not been cross-validated. The current investigation examined its effectiveness in classifying 317 adolescent offenders on a unit of dually diagnosed inpatients. Although the sample was limited in its number of nonusers, the SASSI-A had an unacceptably high number of false positives (68.4%) but was moderately effective at classifying nonadmitting alcohol and drug users (75.6%). As evidence of criterion-related validity, elevations on the SASSI-A scales had low to moderate correlations with interview-based data on impairment related to substance abuse. However, its scales appeared to be significantly affected by ethnicity, even when level of impairment was a covariate. It appears, then, that the SASSI-A (a) should not be employed to classify adolescents as chemically dependent and (b) has a circumscribed role in screening for suspected substance abuse.

Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 24, No. 1, 114-128 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/0093854897024001007
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