A competency-based measure to aid residential placement decisions: The Community Competence Scale—Short Form.

Abstract

The Community Competence Scale-Short Form (CCS-SF) is a recently developed instrument which has demonstrated clinical utility as an aid in placement o f deinstitutionalized persons with psychiatric disabilities.The CCS-SF requires performance o f tasks and judgments which are proximal corollaries o f daily living skills. In the present study, the CCS-SF demonstrated high test-retest reliability as well as high internal consis tency. The scale also discriminated between apartment and boarding home residents. A discriminant function using the five subscales as predictors correctly classified 74% o f the participants. The results suggest that the CCS-SF is a reliable, valid, and efficient instrument with promise as a tool for providing valuable information regarding the match between daily living skills o f persons with psychiatric disabilities and various residential placements.

The St. Louis Inventory of Community Living Skills.

“…Unfortunately, such broad-band instruments are often very long (as many as 321 items) or require structured interviews (Wallace, 1986). Some LOF scales include a variety of subscales, which take considerable time to administer (Green & Gracely, 1987; Furman & Schneider, 1980; Massey, Pokorny & Kramer, 1989; Goldberg, et al, 1991). Some assess only social skills (Birchwood, Smith, Cochrane, Wetton & Copestake, 1990).…”

Clinical assessments for legal competence of older adults.

“…Considerable published research with the CCS during the 1980s provided reliability, construct validity, and normative data for its use with older and mentally ill persons (Caul, 1984;Christopher, Loeb, Zaretsky, & Jassani, 1988;D'Andrea, Goldberg, Searight, Gilner, & Katz, 1991;Dunn, Searight, Grisso, Margolis, & Gibbons, 1990;Goldberg et al, 1991;Grisso, 1986;Loeb, 1983;Schwartz & Barone, 1992;Searight, Oliver, & Grisso, 1983). The copyright for the CCS is owned by the Psychological Corporation, which currently plans to develop the instrument commercially as the Independent Living Scale.…”