The dimensions of change in therapeutic community treatment instrument

Maria Orlando; Suzanne L. Wenzel; Pat Ebener; Michael C. Edwards; Wallace Mandell; Kirsten Becker

doi:10.1037/1040-3590.18.1.118

The dimensions of change in therapeutic community treatment instrument

Maria Orlando, Suzanne L. Wenzel, Pat Ebener, Michael C. Edwards, Wallace Mandell, Kirsten Becker

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	118-122
Number of pages	5
Journal	Psychological Assessment
Volume	18
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1037/1040-3590.18.1.118
State	Published - Mar 2006
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Instrument development
Therapeutic community
Treatment process
substance use

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Clinical Psychology
Psychiatry and Mental health

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