This study evaluated self‐reported symptom improvement on the MCMI‐II Dysthymia (D) scale for 109 depressed psychiatric inpatients. Rather than presenting the findings in traditional “group mean” format data were analyzed to highlight the variability of clinical improvement for individual patients. Two criteria for judging clinically significant improvement (Jacobson Follette & Revenstorf 1984) were employed namely that the client move from the dysfunctional to functional range during treatment and that the change between pretest and posttest be statistically reliable. Results indicated that 39 (35.8%) of the 109 patients met these criteria.
The Millon Adolescent Personality Inventory (MAPI; Millon, Green, & Meagher, 1982) was administered at admission and discharge to 215 hospitalized adolescents. Significant mean score differences were found for both internalizing (affective disorder) and externalizing (disruptive behavior disorder) adolescents. Consistent with theory, internalizing adolescents reported significantly greater distress at both admission and discharge than externalizing adolescents. Finally, test‐retest reliability coefficients were somewhat lower than those reported previously (Millon et al., 1982) for hospitalized adolescents.
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