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

2004年，我们开发了一个由学校心理健康、青少年犯罪倾向、班级气氛和简易罗夏测验组成的综合评估工具--学校生活量表。该评估工具从个体和群体两个维度对学生进行了更深入的了解。此外，我们还开发了芬兰语版的学校心理健康问卷，以便进行跨国比较。本研究以公立国中为研究对象，进行问卷调查。这些结果和干预计划正在从数据中进行全面评估，并通过咨询进行反馈。此外，从芬兰和日本的跨国研究中发现，日本男女学生的心理健康状况都较差，这被认为是受教育制度差异的影响。2006年，我们从前一年的结果中，通过对学生的心理健康状况和犯罪倾向进行分类，提取了典型样本。结果表明，对不良学生的干预应根据其心理健康程度的不同而有所区别。此外，我们还沿着收集了更多的事例，并对学校教师进行了跟踪研究和访谈。此外，我们还举办了一次国际研讨会，与两位具有学校心理学专长的美国演讲嘉宾积极交换了演讲和意见。两国学校辅导员的地位不同，但我们都认识到使用评估工具进行实证研究的重要性。这种开发综合评估工具及其实施的顺序可以得到国际标准的认可。

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.