出版社：Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Department of Social Work
摘要：The article deals with strategic planning of prevention attempts and presents a process of adaptation of the US instrument CTC Youth Survey aimed at assessing the needs of children and young people. The needs assessment, i.e. determining existing resources and protective factors of a community as well as its disadvantages and risk factors, represents a starting point for elaborating priorities of preventive actions in a community. The CTC Youth Survey is a result of the »Communities That Care« system and represents a unique instrument of examining risk factors and protective factors for the development of behaviour problems in children and young people as well as predictors of behaviour disorders in young people, such as abusive behaviour, delinquency, use of alcohol and psychoactive substance abuse. The article presents the process of adaptation of the CTC Questionnaire for Children and Young People to the Croatian setting. The modality of abbreviation and the adaptation of the US questionnaire as well as of verification of its characteristics is presented. Besides presenting the internal structure of the questionnaire, the article also deals with the profiles of risk factors and protective factors on the sample from the Istria County. Some practical guidelines for the use of the CTC Questionnaire for Children and Young People are presented as well.
关键词：needs assessment in the community; risk factors and protective factors; children and young people; strategic planning; CTC Questionnaire for Children and Young People.
