Answer the following statements "True" or "False."

1. All youths processed in drug and family courts should be screened to identify those with serious problems.
    
2. Accurate and timely juvenile assessment is at the heart of every juvenile drug and family court.
    
3. Juvenile drug and family court assessment tests should contain a truthfulness measure to show how truthful the youth was when tested.
    
4. Reading impairments and cultural differences require innovative approaches in juvenile assessment.
    
5. In addition to alcohol and drug use, it is important to assess or screen other important attitudes and behaviors.
    
6. Testing programs should have a built-in expanding database for program review and ongoing research.
    
7. Juvenile confidentiality must be protect-ed.
    
8. Any juvenile drug or family court testing program must be cost efficient and affordable.
    
9. Any juvenile test must have empirically demonstrated reliability, validity and ac-curacy.

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If you answered all nine statements "True," your assessment philosophy is in agreement with Risk & Needs Assessment, Inc.

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