Table 2.
Interrater Reliability of the Emergent Life Events Coding System-Revised (ELECS-R)
| Item Description | ICC or κ* |
|---|---|
| Presence or Absence of at Least One ELE in Session | .78* |
| Number of ELEs Per Session | .67 |
| ELE Characteristics | |
| Negative Impact | .72 |
| Maximum Client Distress | .66 |
| Category: Trauma and Health Issues | .72* |
| Family Issues | .80* |
| Peer and School Problems | .71* |
| Client Risk Behavior | .63* |
| Reporter | .76* |
| Time Reported | .98 |
| Dependence on Youth | .88 |
| Dependence on Family | .40^ |
| Persistence | .33*^ |
| Session-Wide Extensiveness of Structured Activity (Adherence to MATCH) | .75 |
| Session-Wide Extensiveness of Unstructured Activity | .75 |
| Responses to ELE | |
| First Response | .83* |
| ELE Occurrence → Yes → Structured Activity | .76* |
| Extensiveness | .72 |
| ELE Occurrence → Yes → Structured Activity → Related to ELE | .74* |
| Which MATCH Module Related to ELE | .77* |
| Extensiveness | .84 |
| ELE Occurrence → Yes → Structured Activity → Unrelated to ELE | .60* |
| Which MATCH Module Unrelated to ELE | .81* |
| Extensiveness | .68 |
| ELE Occurrence → Yes → Unstructured Activity | 1.00* |
| Extensiveness | .73 |
| ELE Occurrence → Yes → Unstructured Activity → Related to ELE | 1.00* |
| Supportive/empathic statements | .73 |
| Relating the ELE to past life experiences | .65 |
| Information gathering about the event | .57 |
| Information gathering about subjective impact of ELE on client(s) | .71 |
| Informal advice giving | .77 |
| Informal problem solving | .77 |
| Psychoeducation about the ELE | .47 |
| Informal reframing statement | .69 |
| Safety assessment | .97 |
| Provision of supportive resources outside of therapy | .49 |
| Provision of supportive resources by therapist | .31^ |
| Other | .75 |
| ELE Occurrence → Yes → Unstructured Activity → Unrelated to ELE | .80* |
| Extensiveness | .78 |
| ELE Occurrence → No → Structured Activity | .69* |
| Extensiveness | .72 |
| ELE Occurrence → No → Unstructured Activity | .54* |
| Extensiveness | .76 |
Note. Items correspond to Figure 1.
^
Code excluded from data analysis due to poor reliability. ICC = intraclass correlation coefficient. ICCs (2, 1) were calculated for continuous variables, and Cohen’s κ’s (denoted with an asterisk) were calculated for categorical variables.