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  • Clinical Psychology
  • Adolescent Mental Health

Background:

  • Therapy dropout is a significant issue in adolescent mental health treatment.
  • Predicting dropout is crucial for improving treatment engagement and outcomes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify child, family, and treatment factors that predict therapy dropout in adolescents with depression.
  • To explore pre-treatment and within-treatment predictors of dropout.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of data from 406 adolescents in the IMPACT randomized controlled trial.
  • Logistic regression used to determine predictors of dropout.

Main Results:

  • Few pre-treatment predictors were identified: older age, antisocial behavior, and lower verbal intelligence.
  • Missed sessions and poor early therapeutic alliance significantly predicted dropout.
  • Most child and family factors were not associated with dropout.

Conclusions:

  • Pre-treatment factors have limited predictive power for adolescent therapy dropout.
  • Early within-treatment indicators, such as therapeutic alliance and session attendance, are crucial for identifying dropout risk.
  • Clinical guidelines focusing on early treatment engagement are needed.