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The Child and Adolescent Services Assessment (CASA)

Description and Psychometrics

BARBARA H. ASCHER, MA, is a research analyst in the Developmental Epidemiology Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. Her areas of primary focus include the developmental and psychosocial assessment of adolescents, service use, instrument development and training, and quality control.

Elizabeth M. Z. Farmer

ELIZABETH M. Z. FARMER, PhD, is an assistant professor of psychiatry in the Developmental Epidemiology Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center. Her research focuses on mental health services for children, with a particular interest in patterns of service use and longitudinal outcomes.

Barbara J. Burns

BARBARA J. BURNS, PhD, holds academic appointments at Duke University as a professor of medical psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, as an associate research professor in the Center for Health Policy Research and Education, and as a senior fellow in the Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development. She is a research fellow at the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and serves as co-director of the Psychiatric Epidemiology and Health Services Research Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke and as co-director of the Postdoctoral Research Training Program in Mental Health Services and Systems administered through Duke and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Adrian Angold

ADRIAN ANGOLD, MRCPsych, is an assistant professor of child psychiatry and co-director of the Developmental Epidemiology Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center. He is also director of the Leon Lowenstein Center for the Study, Prevention, and Treatment of Disruptive Behavior Disorders at Duke University Medical Center. His research focuses on diagnostic comorbidity, the effects of puberty on psychopathology, and service use.

The Child and Adolescent Services Assessment (CASA) is a self- and parent-report instrument designed to assess the use of mental health services by children ages 8 years to 18 years. The CASA includes 31 settings covering inpatient, outpatient, and informal services provided by a variety of child-serving providers and sectors. This instrument collects information on whether a service was ever used and more detailed information (length of stay/number of visits, focus of treatment) on services used in the recent past. A description of the instrument, information on interviewer training and coding of data, psychometric data on clinical samples, and a case study are presented.

Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Vol. 4, No. 1, 12-20 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/106342669600400102


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