ArticlePrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research2022
Is ACEs Screening for Adolescent Mental Health Accurate and Fair?
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- Prospective Longitudinal Associations Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adult Mental Health Outcomes: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2026Pooled it
- Debate: Is ACE screening doing more harm than good? Beyond the ACE score - towards more personalised approaches to risk prediction.Child and adolescent mental health · 2026Article
- Maltreatment-Exposure Screening and Adolescent Mental Health: An Evidence-Based Medicine Perspective on Accuracy and Fairness.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2026Article
- Predicting Mental Health Risk from Early-Life Adversity: A Population-Based Study of Canadian Adults: Prédiction du risque pour la santé mentale liée à l'adversité en début de vie : Étude fondée sur une population d'adultes canadiens.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2026Article
- Selected Teen-Reported Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Mental Health Care Use.Academic pediatrics · 2026Article
- Moving toward equitable juvenile justice risk assessments for adolescents: Considering clinical, community, and statistical fairness.Psychological assessment · 2026Article
- A Trauma-Focused Screening Approach for Teen Dating Violence Prevention.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Article
- Screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Critical Appraisal.Pediatrics · 2024Review
- The Association Between Expanded ACEs and Behavioral Health Outcomes Among Youth at First Time Legal System Contact.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Article
- Interpersonal Well-Being and Suicidal Outcomes in a Nationally Representative Study of Adolescents: A Translational Study.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Increasingly, adversity-focused assessment tools are being introduced into preventive mental health screening protocols. However, few studies have explicitly examined whether use of these instruments serves as equitable, clinically useful measures of mental health risk in adolescents. In response, the present study examined whether an adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) measure was accurate and fair as an index of environmental risk for adolescent mental health diagnoses. Secondary data analyses were conducted on the National Comorbidity Survey-Adolescent Supplement. Adolescents (N = 10,148; Age
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