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Personality assessment with adolescents: challenges and guidelines.

Tony D Crespi¹, Natalie N Politikos

¹Department of Psychology, The University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT 06117, USA.

|December 18, 2008

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Personality assessment tools are crucial for diagnosing serious emotional disturbances in youth and informing effective interventions, especially when considering comorbidity. This article details their proper use and offers practice guidelines.

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Area of Science:

Child and Adolescent Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Psychological Assessment

Background:

Millions of young people experience serious emotional disturbances.
Many youths with these disturbances have unmet mental health needs.
Personality assessment is underutilized in comprehensive psychological evaluations.

Purpose of the Study:

To describe the effective use of personality assessment tools.
To highlight the importance of personality assessment in diagnosing youth emotional disturbances.
To provide guidelines for incorporating personality assessment, particularly concerning comorbidity.

Main Methods:

Review of personality assessment tools.
Discussion of their application in diagnosing serious emotional disturbances.
Focus on managing comorbidity in youth mental health.

Main Results:

Personality assessment offers significant diagnostic and intervention-planning benefits.
Effective use of these tools can address unmet mental health needs in youth.
Guidelines are provided for integrating personality assessment into practice.

Conclusions:

Personality assessment is an essential component of comprehensive psychological evaluations for youth.
Proper utilization of these tools aids in accurate diagnosis and tailored interventions.
Addressing comorbidity through personality assessment is critical for effective youth mental healthcare.