THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ASSESSMENT TOOL FOR DELINQUENCY AND MENTAL HEALTH IN SCHOOL COMMUNITIES AND THE APPLICATION IN CLINICAL SITUATIONS.

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As the major achievements for this project, I point out "the development of a comprehensive assessment tool", "practical use of the tool", "cross-national research" and "holding of international symposiums".In 2004, we developed a comprehensive assessment tool, School Life Inventory, which consists of school mental health, delinquent tendency, class climate and the short-form of Rorschach test. This assessment tool provides deeper understandings of students from the dimensions of both individual and group. Also, we developed the Finnish version of school mental health questionnaire in order to compare cross-nationally.In 2005, the "School Life. Inventory" was carried out at public junior high schools. These results and intervention plans being assessed comprehensively from the data were feed-backed with consultation. In addition, from the cross-national research between Finland and Japan, it was shown that both male and female Japanese students exhibited worse mental health, which was considered to be affected by the difference of educational systems.In 2006, from the outcomes of previous year, we extracted prototypical examples by classifying profiles of students' mental health and delinquent tendency. It was revealed that the intervention for delinquent students should be differed depending on their degree of mental health. Also, such examples were more gathered along with some follow-up research and interviews to school teachers.Furthermore, we held an international symposium and actively exchanged presentations and opinions with two American guest speakers with expertise in school psychology. The positions of school counselors are different in both countries ; however, we shared the acknowledgement on the importance of empirical research using assessment tools. This sequence of developing the comprehensive assessment tool and its implementation can receive recognition in international standard.