SASSI-A3
Adolescent Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory
Purpose: Identifies an adolescent's probability of having a substance use disorder
Format: Paper and pencil
Age range: 12 years to 18 years
Time: 15 minutes
DETAILS:
The SASSI-A3 distinguishes likely substance use disorders from other psychological disorders, even when other psychological symptoms are present. New items reflect current teen alcohol and drug use patterns.
Features and Benefiits
A brief new scale, Prescription Drug (Rx), was added to accurately identify individuals likely to be abusing prescription medications.
Validated against the DSM-5™ criteria for diagnosing substance use disorders.
Distinguishes likely substance use disorder (SUD) from other psychological disorders: The SASSI-A3 can accurately identify the presence and the absence of SUD, even when other psychological symptoms are present.
New subtle items were added to reflect current teen alcohol and drug use patterns and questions were updated to use contemporary teen verbiage.
Additional face valid items to identify symptoms represented in the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria.