DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A MEASURE OF ADOLESCENT DISSOCIATION - THE ADOLESCENT DISSOCIATIVE EXPERIENCES SCALE

This study describes the initial reliability and validity data on the Adolescent Dissociative Experiences Scale (A-DES), a screening measure for pathological dissociation during adolescence. The A-DES showed go od scale and subscale reliability, and, as hypothesized, increased sco res were associated with reported trauma in a patient population. A-DE S scores were able to distinguish dissociative disordered adolescents from a normal sample and from a patient sample with a variety of diagn oses.