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Motivation for Youth’s Treatment Scale (MYTS): A New Tool for Measuring Motivation Among Youths and Their Caregivers
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Treatment motivation can be important for treatment adherence and outcomes, yet few measures of motivation are available for youths in mental health settings. These authors describe the psychometric properties of the motivation for youth's treatment scale (MYTS), an 8-item measure with forms for youths and caregivers that assesses their problem recognition and treatment readiness. Results indicate that the MYTS offers practitioners and researchers a brief, psychometrically sound tool for assessing treatment motivation of youths and their caregivers. Multivariate analyses of clinical and non-clinical characteristics of youths and caregivers show that youths' symptom severity consistently predicts treatment motivation for both groups. However, the strain of caring for the youth adds significantly to caregivers' recognition of the youth's troubles. While caregiver and youth motivations correlate, their agreement is low. Caregivers are nearly always more treatment motivated than youths. The authors discuss the implications of their findings for measurement, treatment planning, and future research.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Breda, C. S., & Riemer, M.
- Affiliations
- Vanderbilt University (US)
- Wilfrid Laurier University (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Breda, Carolyn S.
- ORCID
- Riemer, Manuel
- Venue
- Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research
- Published
- 2012-03
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 118-132
- ISSN
- 0894-587X (ISSN-L)
- 1573-3289
- PMC
- PMC3335295
- OpenAlex
- W1979296277
- Cited by
- 48
- References
- 45
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 4 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 2.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH087814, R01MH068589, R01-MH4264600201)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- treatment motivation, youth, caregivers, psychometric properties, treatment readiness, problem identification, symptom severity, caregiver burden, medication adherence
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Mental Disorders, Child, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Motivation, Psychological Tests, Psychometrics, Surveys and Questionnaires, Caregivers, Young Adult
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