Imagine that a clinician or agency has decided to put in place a way to identify dual status youths’ trauma-related needs. How should they go about it? That is the question addressed in Identifying Dual Status Youth with Trauma-Related Problems, the second brief in a series on trauma-related procedures for use with dual status young youth—children and adolescents who are being served by both child welfare and juvenile justice systems. The series’ inaugural brief, Trauma in Dual Status Youth: Putting Things in Perspective, described the prevalence of trauma-based behavior problems among dual status youth and introduced the need to improve our ability to identify those problems so that we can offer those youth proper interventions. This brief now examines how to go about setting up a system for identifying trauma-related problems.
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Identifying Dual Status Youth with Trauma-Related Problems
Authored by Amy Wevodau, Ph.D., Keith Cruise, Ph.D., M.L.S., & Thomas Grisso, Ph.D.,
Robert F. Kennedy National Resource Center for Juvenile Justice, 2015