characteristics of youth

1. CHARACTERISTICS OF
YOUTH IN FLEMISH CARE
Informant disagreement and its implications for
practice

2. Orthopedagogical Centre Sint-Idesbald

3. Sint-Idesbald: primary education

4. Sint-Idesbald: secondary education

5. Sint-Idesbald: residential care & day treatment

6. Step 1: questionnaires
 Profiles based on
 Child Behaviour Checklist
 Teacher Report Form
 Youth Self Report

7. Step 1: YSR

8. Step 1: CBCL

9. Step 1: profiles
 Profile CBCL (educator)
 Aggression
 Delinquency
 Attention problems
 Profile TRF (teacher)
 Aggression
 Delinquency
 Attention problems
 Profile YSR (youth)
 Withdrawn
 Anxious
 Somatic complaints
 Thinking problems

10. Step 2: SCARED
SCARED
GAD
PTSD
OCD
social phobia
situational phobia
SCARED
medical phobia
animal phobia
panic disorder
separation anxiety
20 22 24 26 28 30 32

11. Step 2: SCARED
sex care
55 55
50 50
45 45
40 seks 40 care
35
35
30
30
girl boy
residential daycare
age
55
50
45
40 age
35
30
younger older

12. Step 3: SCARED & internalizing
CBCL TRF YSR
Separation anxiety .236* .179* .391**
Panic disorder .255** .414**
Animal phobia
Medical phobia .241**
Situational phobia .245** .416**
Social phobia .351**
Obs. Comp. disorder .217* .336**
PTSD .191* .390**
GAD .373**
Total score .211* .456**

13. Step 3: SCARED & externalizing
CBCL TRF YSR
Separation anxiety .261** .184*
Panic disorder .231*
Animal phobia
Medical phobia
Situational phobia .204*
Social phobia
Obs. Comp. disorder .237**
PTSD
GAD .191*
Total score .232*

14. Step 3: SCARED & social, thought and
attention problems
Sepa. Panic Anim. Med. Sit. Ph. Soc. Ph. Obs- PTSD GAD Total
anx. dis. Ph. Ph. comp.
CBCL Social prob .274** .221* .244** .362** .367** .209* .321** .324**
Thought pr
Attent. pr .214* .210* .193* .227* .238** .216* .238**
TRF Social prob .237** .165* .155* .174*
Thought pr .164*
Attent. pr
YSR Social prob .309** .353** .193* .369** .342** .288** .305** .279** .386**
Thought pr .389** .417** .198* .198* .329** .259** .316** .308** .371** .415**
Attent. pr .277** .197* .102* .197* .219** .202* .235**

15. Conclusion
 Clear presence of anxiety in youth with EBD
 More anxiety in residential care
 Informant disagreement: especially on internalinzing
problems
 Correlation with anxiety:
 Staff:correlations with social problems
 Youth: correlations with thought problems
 Need for multiple informants
 Need to relate