The Correctional Residential Forms include a comprehensive set of intake and during-treatment data collection instruments for assessing functioning and services in residential settings. Instructions and item wording have been tailored to address issues related to an offender being confined prior to assessment.
These forms have been updated conceptually and technically, however, as part of the more current TCU Short Forms. Interested users are strongly encouraged to consider a customized assessments approach based on selective “packaging” of the TCU Short Forms for intake and progress evaluations.
1. List of Forms
2. Permission to Use TCU Forms
3. TCU Project using these
forms
4. For Additional
Information and References
1. List of Forms
(Listed in sequence in which forms occur during treatment; times indicate typical length to administer.)
The TCU Survey of Criminal Justice Program Treatment Needs (PTN) is used to help identify and prioritize treatment issues that programs believe need attention. PTN-D (i.e., directors’ version) asks for a brief description of the program and staffing, followed by ratings of program training needs and pressures as well as diagnostic and billing procedures. PTN-S (i.e., staff version) asks about facilities and climate, satisfaction with training, preferences for training contents and procedures, computer resources, and barriers to training. (15 minutes)
PTN-S Staff Version
(PDF; 183KB / 5 pages)
PTN-D Program Director Version
(PDF; 222KB / 6 pages)
The TCU Drug Screen II (TCUDS
II) is completed by the offender and serves as a "screener
form" for quickly identifying individuals who report heavy drug use
or dependency (based on the DSM and the NIMH Diagnostic Interview Schedule)
and therefore might be eligible for treatment options. (5-10 minutes) (PDF; 155KB / 4 pages)
The Initial Assessment is
administered by a counselor within 24 hours of program entry and includes
background and psychosocial information, a brief history of illegal drug
use, and assessments of alcohol, cocaine, opioid, and cannabis abuse based
on DSM-IV criteria. (20 minutes)
(PDF; 67KB / 16 pages); Answer cards
The Intake is administered by a counselor
in a face-to-face interview held approximately 5 days after the Initial
Assessment, when the probationer has had time to reach greater stabilization
and cognitive focus. It is comprehensive and includes sections on sociodemographic
background, family and peer relations, health and psychological status,
criminal involvement, in-depth drug use history, and an AIDS-risk assessment.
(90 minutes) (PDF; 113KB / 31 pages); Answer cards
The Self-Rating at Intake is completed by the probationer immediately following the Initial Assessment.
It includes short scales for psychological adjustment (i.e., self-esteem,
depression, anxiety, and decision-making), social functioning (i.e., childhood
problems, hostility, risk-taking, and social conformity), and motivation
scales (problem recognition, desire for help, treatment readiness) as
well as the Pearlin Mastery Scale. (10 minutes) (PDF; 16KB / 6 pages); Item-Scoring Guide (PDF;
14KB / 4 pages)
The Counselor Rating of
Client is completed by the counselor for the purpose of describing
probationer functioning and therapeutic strategies used in the preceding
3 months. (5 minutes) (PDF; 9KB / 2 pages)
The Evaluation of Self and Treatment (for the previous 3 months) records probationer ratings of the counselor, therapeutic groups, and the program in general. It also contains scales assessing psychological adjustment, social functioning, and motivation. (15 minutes) (PDF; 19KB / 7 pages) Item-Scoring Guide (PDF; 15KB / 4 pages)
2. Permission to Use TCU Forms
The Institute of Behavioral Research at Texas Christian University is pleased to make available, without charge, a wide array of data collection instruments developed for drug abuse treatment and outcome assessments. Collectively, they are referred to as the “TCU Forms.”
Terms of Use: Written permission for nonprofit research use of the TCU Forms is not required; however, it is requested that IBR be notified of their use, and that copies of reports based on these forms be sent as a professional courtesy to the IBR. No part of any TCU Form or its supporting material (i.e., instructions, scoring guides) may be copied, downloaded, stored in a retrieval system, or redistributed for any commercial purpose without the expressed written permission of the University or designated developer of the form.
3. TCU Projects using these forms
Prison-Based Treatment Assessment (PTA) Project Summary
Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) Project Summary
4. For Additional
Information and References
Broome, K. M., Knight, K., Joe, G. W., & Simpson, D. D. (1996). Evaluating the
drug-abusing probationer: Clinical interview versus self-administered assessment. Criminal
Justice and Behavior, 23(4), 593-606. [Abstract]
Hiller, M. L., Knight, K., Devereux, J., & Hathcoat, M. (1996). Posttreatment
outcomes for substance-abusing probationers mandated to residential treatment. Journal
of Psychoactive Drugs, 28(3), 291-296. [Abstract]
Knight, K., Simpson, D. D., Chatham, L. R., & Camacho, L. M. (1997). An assessment of
prison-based drug treatment: Texas' in-prison therapeutic community program. Journal of
Offender Rehabilitation, 24(3/4), 75-100. [Abstract]
Knight, K., & Hiller, M. L. (1997). Community-based substance abuse treatment for
probationers: 1-Year outcome evaluation of the Dallas County Judicial Treatment Center. Federal
Probation, 61(2), 61-68. [Abstract]
Hiller, M. L., Broome, K. M., Knight, K., & Simpson, D. D. (2000). Measuring self-efficacy among drug-involved probationers. Psychological Reports, 86, 529-538. [Abstract]
Criminal Justice Evaluation Publications