MANUAL (8 1/2 x 11):
Order Code: MAYSI2
Price: $85.00
154pp. 2006
ISBN: 1568871015
ISBN13: 9781568871011

MAYSIWARE
(User's Guide/CD-ROM):
Order Code: MAYCD
Price: $124.95

MAYSI2 KIT SAVE $15!
(Manual & MAYSIWARE):
Price: $194.95
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SUPPLEMENT TO
2003 MANUAL:
Price: $60.00
Order Code: MAYSUP

SECOND SCREENING FORMS
(Set of 7):
Price: $20.00
Order Code: MAYSS

Review of the MAYSI-2:

“For the first time, we have a scientifically-sound instrument to identify signs of mental health problems among youth in juvenile justice settings. Over the past several decades, there has been growing evidence that many justice-involved youth may require mental health services, yet the field has been hampered by the absence of a comprehensive, well-tested and easy to use screening tool. The MAYSI-2 fills this gap. The importance of the MAYSI-2 is reflected in its incredibly rapid spread across the country.
I visit juvenile justice programs and facilities across the country, I am impressed with how often and how well it is being adopted. More importantly, it is allowing for the identification of youth who may have mental health needs, thus forcing juvenile justice and mental health officials and policy makers to begin to develop the evaluation and treatment services these youth need. Without doubt, the MAYSI-2 has done more to highlight, in a real and concrete way, the mental health needs of justice-involved youth than any other tool, research or event in the past several decades.”
     -Joseph J. Cocozza, PhD, Director, National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice, Delmar, NY

About the MAYSI-2:

The MAYSI-2 is a mental health screening tool to assist juvenile justice facilities in identifying youths 12-17 years old who may have special mental health needs requiring immediate attention. It can be used at any entry or transitional placement point in the juvenile justice system (e.g., intake probation, pretrial detention, juvenile correctional programs). Since 2000, the MAYSI-2 has become one of the most widely used mental health screening tools in juvenile justice systems, having been adopted for statewide use in probation, detention, or juvenile corrections programs in 35 states.
The 2006 edition of the manual is consistent with the previous edition (the MAYSI-2 itself has not been revised), but contains the Spanish as well as English version of the MAYSI-2, offers new information on recently completed national norms involving over 70,000 cases, and provides new information and Second Screening Forms for systematic follow-up interviews with youths who score above the cutoff scores on any MAYSI-2 scale. The MAYSI-2:

• Can be administered to all youths in probation intake interviews or within the first few hours after admission to detention and corrections facilities.
• Requires no more than 15 minutes to administer, and can be scored in about 3 minutes.
• Can be administered in paper-and-pencil form or with new software called MAYSIWARE, and is available in both English and Spanish.
• Alerts staff to potential mental/emotional distress and certain behavior problems that might require an immediate response (Alcohol/Drug Use, Angry-Irritable, Depressed-Anxious, Somatic Complaints, Suicide Ideation, Thought Disturbance, Traumatic Experiences).
• Does not require a mental health professional for scoring and interpretation.

Use of the MAYSI-2 is unlimited for each site (allowing photocopying of the questionnaire and scoring materials) with the purchase of the manual and registration of the user with the MAYSI-2 technical assistance office, the National Youth Screening Assistance Project (NYSAP).

For MAYSI-2 users who have the 2003 edition of the manual, a supplement is available containing the contents of the 2006 manual, including all printed contents, all protective sleeves with heavy stock reproducible Spanish Questionnaire, Scoring Keys, and Second Screening Forms and Summary (excludes only the original English version of the MAYSI-2 Questionnaire and the binder) - Order Code MAYSUP. NYSAP also offers a way for MAYSI-2 2003 Manual owners to download copies of the new National Norms Study and Tables and the revised Scoring Summary. Contact www.umassmed.edu/nysap for information about this option. Second Screening Forms and Summary (with protective sleeves) only are available from Professional Resource Press to MAYSI-2 2003 Manual owners - Order Code MAYSS.

Table of Contents:

PREFACE
History of the MAYSI and MAYSI-2 / National Youth Screening Assistance Project (NYSAP) / Purpose of the Manual/Report / Conditions for Use of the MAYSI-2 / Current Status of the MAYSI-2

SECTION I - MANUAL FOR USING THE MAYSI-2

Chapter 1: Introduction to the MAYSI-2 Brief Overview / Why Mental Health Screening in Juvenile Justice Programs ? / What Guided the Development of the MAYSI-2? / What Should be Considered When Deciding Whether to Use the MAYSI-2?

Chapter 2: The MAYSI-2 Scales Alcohol/Drug Use / Angry-Irritable / Depressed-Anxious / Somatic Complaints / Suicide Ideation / Thought Disturbance (Boys) / Traumatic Experiences

Chapter 3: Administering the MAYSI-2 in Juvenile Justice Screening Completing the Questionnaire / Scoring the MAYSI-2

Chapter 4: Responding to High MAYSI-2 Scores “Caution” and “Warning” Cut-Off Scores / For Administrators: Establishing Policy Regarding Responses to High MAYSI-2 Scores / Second Screening for the MAYSI-2 / For Staff: Interpreting and Responding to High MAYSI-2 Scores

SECTION II - DEVELOPMENT OF THE MAYSI-2: TECHNICAL REPORT

Chapter 5: Development of the MAYSI Prototype Initial Conceptualization and Item Development / Method, Procedures, and Sample for the 1996-1998 MAYSI Study

Chapter 6: Identification of the MAYSI-2 Scales Process for Identifying the MAYSI and MAYSI-2 Scales / Results of the Massachusetts Factor Analysis / Results of the California Factor Analysis

Chapter 7: Psychometric Properties and Reliability Scale Distributions / Scale Analyses / Inter-Scale Correlations / Test-Retest Stability

Chapter 8: Validity MAYSI-2 Inter-Scale Correlations / Relation to Scales in Other Instruments

Chapter 9: Normative Data: The Original Massachusetts Study Age and Gender Norms / Ethnic Groups / Sites and Legal Status / Cut-Off Scores / Other Research on MAYSI-2 Validity

Chapter 9: Data from the 2002-2005 National Norms Study The Method, Case/Site Variables, and Sample / Norms / Cross-Site Consistency of Demographic Differences / Conclusion

TABLES

Tables Compiled from Original Massachusetts Study - Table 1: Proportion of Youths At or Above the Caution and Warning Cut-Off Scores / Table 2: Sample (Age, Gender, Race) / Table 3: Sample (Sites and Legal Status, by Age, Gender, Race) / Table 4: Factor Loadings for 52 MAYSI-2 Items / Table 5: MAYSI-2 Scale Alphas and Item-Total Correlations / Table 6: Intercorrelations of MAYSI-2 Scales / Table 7: MAYSI-2 Test-Retest Results / Table 8: Correlations of MAYSI-2 Scales With Six Clinical Scales of Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory / Table 9: Correlations of MAYSI-2 With Scales of Child Behavior Checklist - Youth Self Report / Table 10: MAYSI-2 Means and Standard Deviations for Age by Gender Groups / Table 11: Mean MAYSI-2 Scores and Significant Differences by Gender and by Age (Younger and Older) / Table 12: Comparison of Ethnic Groups on MAYSI-2 Scales (for Boys and Girls) / Table 13: Comparison of Boys and Girls Within Ethnic Group / Table 14: MAYSI-2 Means by Site and by Legal Status / Table 15: Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) Analyses, and Results Using Optimal ROC Cut-Off Scores / Table 16: Caution and Warning Cut-Off Scores

Tables Compiled from National Norms Study - Table 17: Geographic Characteristics - Youths by State and Region (n, % within region) / Table 18: Youth Characteristics - Population Density and Gate by State (n, column %) / Table 19: Youth Demographic Characteristics (n, % within row category) / Table 20: Characteristics of Other Ethnic Group (n, % of ethnic group) / Table 21: Youth Demographic Characteristics by Gate (n, % within gate) / Table 22: Gender Comparisons - At or Above the Caution and Warning Cut-Off Scores / Table 23: Age Comparisons - At or Above the Caution and Warning Cut-Off Scores / Table 24: Percent Meeting Caution and Warning Cut-Off Scores by Gender and Age Group / Table 25: Caution and Warning Cut-Off Scores for Race/Ethnicity / Table 26: Percent Meeting Caution and Warning Cut-Off Scores by Gender and Race/Ethnicity

MAYSI-2 FORMS

MAYSI-2 Questionnaire / MAYSI-2 Scoring Key / MAYSI-2 Scoring Summary and Profile / Instructions for the Alternative MAYSI-2 Alternative MAYSI-2 Scoring Key / Alternative MAYSI-2 Scoring Summary and Profile / Instructions for the MAYSI-2 Spanish Version MAYSI-2 Spanish Version Questionnaire / Instructions for the MAYSI-2 Second Screening Forms Alcohol/Drug Use / Angry-Irritable / Depressed-Anxious / Somatic Complaints / Suicide Ideation / Thought Disturbance / Summary

About MAYSIWARE:

MAYSIWARE is an electronic method for administering and using the MAYSI-2 in juvenile justice facilities.
MAYSIWARE software allows youths to answer MAYSI-2 questions on a computer with both on-screen and audio presentation of items in English and Spanish. MAYSIWARE scores the MAYSI-2, creates and provides customizable reports, generates youth files, generates "dynamic" site norms (automatically and continuously accumulates a facility's MAYSI-2 cases and portrays facility results graphically), compares the site norms to national norms, exports data, offers security features, and has the ability to be networked with multiple computers (compatible with both Windows 2000 and Widnows XP).

About the Authors:

Thomas Grisso, PhD, ABPP, is Professor of Psychiatry (Clinical Psychology) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he is Coordinator of the Law and Psychiatry Program. His research, teaching, and clinical practice during the past 25 years have focused on legal competencies and various types of forensic clinical evaluations. He has authored and edited several books on evaluations for courts and on juvenile forensic issues, most recently Forensic Evaluation of Juveniles (1998), Youth on Trial (2000, with Robert Schwartz), and Double Jeopardy: Adolescent Offenders With Mental Disorders (2004). His recent work seeks to provide information to assist the juvenile justice system in identifying and responding to adolescent offenders with mental disorders.
Richard Barnum, MD, is a child and adolescent forensic psychiatrist who has directed the Boston Juvenile Court Clinic since 1982. He has conducted evaluations of thousands of children and families involved in juvenile court, is on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts and Harvard Medical Schools, and has written on issues of forensic assessment of children and families and mental health concerns in the juvenile justice system. He currently provides treatment for boys and girls committed to the Massachusetts juvenile corrections agency in secure and community settings.

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