Massachusetts

The Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument-Version 2 (MAYSI-2) is a brief, self-report screening tool designed to identify youths with special mental health needs in the juvenile justice system. It is not a diagnostic tool. Instead, it identifies emergent risks of youths in need of a comprehensive psychological assessment. The developers of the MAYSI-2 designed it for

The Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument (MAYSI) was developed in the 1990s by Thomas Grisso and Richard Barnum at the University of Massachusetts Medical School with grants from the William T. Grant Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. It was designed to be used within the juvenile justice system to identify youths experiencing thoughts, feelings, or behaviors