Psychological test or assessment method. "The Substance Abuse Questionnaire -- Adult Probation III
Brief Description of the Test
The recent release of one of the youngest convicted child murders in our nation's history, Lionel Tate, now an adult, into the general population, has highlighted the difficulty of determining if a former prisoner should be eligible for parole. Psychologists have attempted to answer this difficult and subjective question by designing the objectively-assessed test known as "The Substance Abuse Questionnaire -- Adult Probation III" exam. (Risk & Needs Assessment, Inc., 1997) This test was originally designed in 1987 exclusively for adult prisoners eligible for probation to determine the risk of paroling them and assessing their risk to society and has since been updated, in 1997, to include inventories for truthfulness. (Spies, 2003)
The SAQ is 165-item questionnaire. It can be administered either in a paper and pencil format or on a computer. All of the queries on the test are either true or false or multiple-choice. Thus it is not subjectively scored, although an expert must assess it. Its questions attempt to assess the test taker's risk levels for abusing alcohol and drugs, and for the traits of aggression, antisocial behavior, violence, resisting authority, ability or inability to cope with stressful situations, and also for truthfulness. All of these different areas are individually scored in different batteries or areas, although a general risk level is also assigned by the test. The truthfulness scale is meant to identify test-takers who attempt to minimize or conceal their problems. It can be administered as a group.
According to the test's Orientation and Training Manual, each raw score then is truth-corrected through a process of adding back into each scale score the amount of error variance associated with a person's untruthfulness (Risk & Needs Assessment, Inc., 1997). The adjusted percentile score is reported as falling within one of four ascending levels of risk, that of low, medium, problem, or...
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