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Brief form of the competency screening test for mental competence to stand trial
Author(s) -
Shatin Leo
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197904)35:2<464::aid-jclp2270350249>3.0.co;2-i
Subject(s) - psychology , competence (human resources) , clinical psychology , test (biology) , screening test , applied psychology , psychotherapist , social psychology , medicine , family medicine , paleontology , biology
Investigated a brief 5‐item version of the Competency Screening Test (a sentence completion test of mental competence to stand trial) for its relationship to the complete 22‐item test, and for its power to predict the mental competency findings of a comprehensive Clinical Psychiatric Evaluation conducted by a forensic psychiatrist. S s were 21 female patients serially examined in a forensic psychiatric service for mental competence to stand trial. Tests were individually administered. The brief version of Competency Screening Test was highly correlated, with the full test Rho = .92. It classified 17 (of 21) patients in direct agreement with the results of the Clinical Psychiatric Evaluation. It showed a theoretical, but small relationship with verbal intelligence for this group. The 5‐item form seems applicabel for preliminary competency screening evaluation.