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Assessing Therapy-Relevant Cognitive Capacities in Young People: Development and Psychometric Evaluation of the Self-Reflection and Insight Scale for Youth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2010

Floor M. Sauter ,
David Heyne ,
Anke W. Blöte ,
Brigit M. van Widenfelt  and
P. Michiel Westenberg
Floor M. Sauter*
Affiliation:
Leiden University, the Netherlands
David Heyne
Affiliation:
Leiden University, the Netherlands
Anke W. Blöte
Affiliation:
Leiden University, the Netherlands
Brigit M. van Widenfelt
Affiliation:
Curium-Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands
P. Michiel Westenberg
Affiliation:
Leiden University, the Netherlands
*
Reprint requests to Floor M. Sauter, Leiden University, Developmental Psychology, Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK Leiden, the Netherlands. E-mail: fmsauter@yahoo.com
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Abstract

Background: The effectiveness of cognitive-behaviour therapy with young people may be influenced by a young person's capacity for self-reflection and insight. Clinicians who assess clients' proficiencies in these cognitive capacities can better tailor cognitive and behavioural techniques to the client, facilitating engagement and enhancing treatment outcome. It is therefore important that sound instruments for assessing self-reflection and insight in young people are available. Aims: The aim of the current study was to translate and adapt the Self-Reflection and Insight Scale (SRIS) for use with a child and adolescent population (Study 1), and to evaluate the psychometric properties of the resulting measure, the Self-Reflection and Insight Scale for Youth (SRIS-Y; Study 2). Method: In Study 1 (n = 145), the comprehensibility of the SRIS-Y was assessed in a community sample of children and adolescents. Study 2 (n = 215) then explored the reliability and structural, convergent, and divergent validity of the SRIS-Y. Results: The SRIS-Y was found to be comprehensible to young people, and had good reliability and structural validity. Conclusions: It appears that the SRIS-Y is a sound instrument for assessing therapy-relevant cognitive capacities in young people, of potential benefit in both research and clinical contexts. Future research foci include the predictive validity of the instrument.

Keywords

ChildadolescentCBT(meta-)cognitionassessmentself-reflection
Type
Research Article
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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , May 2010 , pp. 303 - 317
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 2010

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