%0 Journal Article
%T From Clinical-Developmental Theory to Assessment: The Holistic Student Assessment Tool
%A Gil Noam
%A Tina Malti
%A Martin Guhn
%J International Journal of Conflict and Violence
%D 2012
%I University of Bielefeld
%X A description and test of the Holistic Student Assessment Tool (HSA), an assessment tool to measure childrenĄ¯s and adolescentsĄ¯ resiliencies in relation to externalizing and internalizing problem behaviors. The HSA is based on the authorsĄ¯ research-based clinical-developmental Clover Leaf Model of resilience and psychopathology, and is one of the first attempts at closing the gap between risk and resilience approaches in developmental assessment. The HSA was tested in a cross-sectional sample of 423 children and adolescents.The results lend support to the HSA as a valid measure of childrenĄ¯s and adolescentsĄ¯ resiliencies. Furthermore, the resilience scales mostly exhibited the theoretically expected convergent and divergent relationships with the psychopathology scales. In addition, we show how the resilience scales predict adolescentsĄ¯ externalizing and internalizing symptoms. We contend that evidence-based intervention to address youth aggression needs to be based on sounddevelopmental assessment.
%K clinical-developmental theory
%K Holistic Student Assessment
%K Clover Leaf Model
%K resiliencies
%K social-emotional development
%K externalizing psychopathology
%U http://ijcv.org/index.php/ijcv/article/view/276/pdf_69