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Published on: November 21, 2013
Dimensions of adolescent psychopathology and their prognostic significance for treatment outcome
Abstract:
The mothers of 87 male and female adolescents accepted at a counseling agency described their offspring by completing the Institute of Juvenile Research Behavior Checklist. A factor analysis of the initial data yielded nine symptom factors. These were used in combination with selected demographic variables, to compare the 54 continuers in treatment with the 22 early defectors and the 18 cases improved after a year of a full course of treatment with the 16 unimproved cases. Both discriminant function analyses indicated that the groups could be successfully differentiated; however, variables most predictive of continuance in treatment were not most predictive of a successful outcome.
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