Colorado Women's TC Project

The CTCR Protocol (CTCR, 1992) is a structured interview that was adapted from the ASI and DATAR for use in community treatment and the criminal justice system; additional versions, including Green's Trauma Scale (Green, 1996) to measure trauma and abuse, have been developed for baseline, during treatment and community follow-up with women. It assesses the following domains: socio-demographic background, substance use, psychosocial functioning, criminal justice involvement, education, employment, parenting, peer and family support, and health.

The BDI-II (Beck, Steer, & Brown, 1996). The BDI measures three domains of depression: Somatic Depression, Cognitive Depression and Total Depression Scores, consistent with the DSM-IV criteria for depressive disorders.

The SES (Rosenberg, 1965) is the most widely used global measure of self-esteem,

The SCL90-R (Derogatis, 1983) measures 9 domains including: somatization, obsessive-compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation, psychoticism, providing a global index of distress: Global Severity Index (GSI).

The DIS-IV (Robins et al., 1995) is a structured clinical interview to generate DSM-IV lifetime and current psychiatric and substance use/abuse diagnoses.

The PPS measures the parenting practices among parents of children under age 12.

The ASSIS (Barrera, 1980; Barrera, Sandier, & Ramsay, 1981; Stevens, Murphy, & McGrath, 2000) measures social support networks with a series of questions regarding the people who are important to the client and the number of ways they support the individual. Areas covered by the scale include: intimate interaction, material aid, advice, positive feedback, physical assistance, social participation, negative interactions, and personal characteristic of network members.

The TCU-REST (Knight, Simpson & Chatham, 1997; Simpson & Knight, 1998) provides measures of client process and progress in treatment in the following domains: psychological functioning (including scales for self-esteem, depression, anxiety, self-efficacy, and decision-making confidence.

The CAI (Kressel, 1998) measures client perceptions of progress and participation in TC treatment, in 14 domains: maturity, responsibility, values, drug/criminal life style, maintaining images, work attitude, social skills, cognitive skills, emotional skills, sense of well being, accepting program structure and philosophy, participating in group activities, attachment to, and investment in, the program. The latter two scales provide measures of participation and commitment.

The CMR assesses motivation and readiness for treatment (Circumstances 1 (external influences to enter or remain in treatment), Circumstances 2, (external influences to leave treatment), and Motivation (internal recognition of the need to change).

The PAS (Hudson, 1990) consists of two matched pairs of scales, each consisting of 25 Likert type items. The Partner Abuse:

Physical (RASPH) and the Partner Abuse: Non-Physical (PASNP) measure self-reports of physical and non-physical abuse between partners.

The CDOC-RIS will be accessed to gather data on the following measures: current charge on which incarceration is based; other previous charges; current sentence; status of violent offenses; urine toxicological information on drug and alcohol use; medical information; dates of prior incarcerations; disciplinary reports; all services received while in prison; offenses committed post-release, reincarcerations, parole information (including entry into drug abuse treatment).

In addition to the self-report interview, self-report standardized measures, and corroborating staff ratings discussed above, biological specimens (urine samples) will be collected on half of the subjects using a random sampling procedure. Urine samples test for a wide array of substances, but are valid for drug use only in the preceding 48-72 hours. Urine specimens will be collected at T1, T2, T3 and T4. The project will also use urine tests (administered selectively) that can be obtained from the CDOC-RIS.