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ERIC Number: EJ742289
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Mar
Pages: 5
Abstractor: Author
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ISSN: ISSN-1040-3590
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The Dimensions of Change in Therapeutic Community Treatment Instrument
Orlando, Maria; Wenzel, Suzanne L.; Ebener, Pat; Edwards, Michael C.; Mandell, Wallace; Becker, Kirsten
Psychological Assessment, v18 n1 p118-122 Mar 2006
In this article, the authors describe the refinement and preliminary evaluation of the Dimensions of Change in Therapeutic Community Treatment Instrument (DCI), a measure of treatment process. In Study 1, a 99-item DCI, administered to a cross-sectional sample of substance abuse clients (N = 990), was shortened to 54 items on the basis of results from confirmatory factor analyses and item response theory invariance tests. In Study 2, confirmatory factor analyses of the 54-item DCI, completed by a longitudinal cohort of 993 clients, established and validated an 8-factor solution across 2 subpopulations (adults and adolescents) and 2 time points (treatment entry and 30-days postentry). The results of the 2 studies are encouraging and support use of the 54-item DCI as a tool to measure treatment process.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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