Assessment Tool

Treatment Readiness Assessment Scale

PsycTESTS Citation: Gašević, G. R. (2015). Treatment Readiness Assessment Scale [Database record]. Retrieved from PsycTESTS. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/t43001-000

Instrument Type: Inventory/Questionnaire

Test Format: This 30-item measure utilizes a 5-point Likert scale (1 = does not refer to me at all, 5 = completely refers to me).

Source: Gašević, Gabrijela Ratkajec. (2015). The challenges of creating the treatment readiness scale for youths taking part in mandatory psychosocial counseling. Children and Youth Services Review, Vol 54, 8-19. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2015.04.011, © 2015 by Elsevier. Reproduced by Permission of Elsevier.

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doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/t43001-000

Items

Appropriateness and timeliness of counseling

I need this counseling in order to make a real change.

I am glad to have someone to help me.

Counseling starts now, just as I need it.

The counselor will help me become motivated to solve my problems.

This is the last chance I have to solve my problems.

I know which change I would like to achieve during counseling.

I am glad I was mandated to take part in counseling.

I like being able to meet new people.

It is important to my parents that I attend counseling.

I like the place where counseling takes place.

I have enough time to come to counseling.

I am prepared to share my problems with others.

If I had been able to choose, I would not have chosen mandatory psychosocial counseling.

I do not need counseling because I have not been committing crimes for a while now.

Emotional perception of counseling

I am ashamed to have to go to counseling.

I do not want others to know that I attend counseling.

My friends will mock me for having to attend counseling.

Counseling is humiliating to me.

I am disturbed by the thought that I am a beneficiary of counseling.

Resistance to counseling

I do not have enough patience for counseling.

I will only attend counseling because they are forcing me to.

Counseling will be too arduous to me.

I will stop coming if they do not show understanding for my problems.

Counseling is not effective.

My other obligations will suffer because of counseling.

I will stop coming if I do not observe change.

I do not like that my progress will be assessed.

Counseling is too demanding for me.

I do not like having to talk about myself in front of others.

If something else is in the way, I will not attend the meeting.

Treatment Readiness Assessment Scale

TRAS

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