Annual of social work, Vol. 17 No. 3, 2010.
Original scientific paper
COMMUNITIES THAT CARE: CTC NEEDS ASSESMENT QUESTIONNAIRE FOR PLANNING PREVENTIVE INTERVENTIONS IN CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Josipa Mihić
orcid.org/0000-0003-3678-097X
; Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Zagreb, Department for Behavioral Disorders, Zagreb, Croatia
Miranda Novak
orcid.org/0000-0002-7220-7858
; Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Zagreb, Department for Behavioral Disorders, Zagreb, Croatia
Josipa Bašić
; Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Zagreb, Department for Behavioral Disorders, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The article deals with strategic planning of prevention attempts and presents a process of adaptation of the US instrument CTC Youth Survey aimed at assessing the needs of children and young people. The needs assessment, i.e. determining existing resources and protective factors of a community as well as its disadvantages and risk factors, represents a starting point for elaborating priorities of preventive actions in a community. The CTC Youth Survey is a result of the »Communities That Care« system and represents a unique instrument of examining risk factors and protective factors for the development of behaviour problems in children and young people as well as predictors of behaviour disorders in young people, such as abusive behaviour, delinquency, use of alcohol and psychoactive substance abuse. The article presents the process of adaptation of the CTC Questionnaire for Children and Young People to the Croatian setting. The modality of abbreviation and the adaptation of the US questionnaire as well as of verification of its characteristics is presented. Besides presenting the internal structure of the questionnaire, the article also deals with the profiles of risk factors and protective factors on the sample from the Istria County. Some practical guidelines for the use of the CTC Questionnaire for Children and Young People are presented as well.
Keywords
needs assessment in the community; risk factors and protective factors; children and young people; strategic planning; CTC Questionnaire for Children and Young People
Hrčak ID:
64354
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Publication date:
20.2.2011.
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