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Manual for Youth Counselors

NCJ Number
106901
Author(s)
C F Jesness; R F Wedge
Date Published
1983
Length
159 pages
Annotation
This manual describes measuring instruments designed to help California caseworkers, teachers, youth counselors, and parole and probation staff identify juvenile offender characteristics and match staff to clients.
Abstract
The Jesness Inventory is useful in assessing attitudes toward authority, self-concept, mood, and delinquency orientation. The Jesness Behavior Checklist elicits youths' evaluations of their own behaviors and compares them with peer and staff appraisals of the youth. The I-level classification procedure brings together a variety of client information that can help the counselor formulate hypotheses about clients' needs and behaviors. The Staff Preference Survey facilitates the matching of staff to clients. The manual also includes descriptions of treatment approaches recommended by those who have used I-level in the past. Appendixes contain the I-level interview, the Jesness Inventory scoring key for I-level subtype scales, the Jesness Inventory table for converting raw scores to standard scores, and scoring examples. 6 figures.