Follow-up of adolescents treated in a psychiatric hospital: I. A review of studies.

Abstract

Book reviewed in this article: Ideally, programs for adolescents in psychiatric hospitals should be based on empirical studies of long‐term effectiveness of different treatment techniques. This paper reviews the literature and isolates six variables significantly related to long‐term outcome. Components of the process‐reactive variable are examined separately for predictive ability, and other variables that suggest directions for research are presented. Multivariate research designs examining combinations of refined outcome predictors are suggested.

Psychiatric Care and Course of Psychiatric Disorders From Childhood to Early Adulthood in a Representative Sample

“…The cohort was positively selected because children with severe mental and physical handicaps, who run a greater risk of psychiatric disorders and are expected to have a poorer prognosis (Corbett, 1985), were excluded. Earlier studies have shown that children with emotional disorders improve in contrast to children with conduct disorders (Gosset, Lewis & Philips, 1973;Robins, 1972). The most common diagnoses of 0-10-year-old children were anxiety disorders and disorders with physical manifestations (emotional disorders), and thus they are expected to have a better prognosis.…”

Access to Insurance and Length of Psychiatric Stay Among Adolescents and Young Adults Discharged from General Hospitals

“…As recently as 20 years ago, youths with these diagnoses were a small minority of the patient populations typically found in psychiatric hospital research (Gossett et al, 1973). The data in this study demonstrate that conduct disturbance and adjustment reaction are very common principal diagnoses among hospitalized juveniles today.…”

Residential treatment of emotionally disturbed adolescents

“…The final variable,l whic.h ref~rs to aftercare, is continuati~n of, i ndividual psychother~py followi ng' hospital discharge. (Gossett et al'. 1973) Because methodological faults were apparent in the thirteen s.tudie~, the suggestion of new, hy~theses for research may be the ~ai'n value of this sum mary of their findings.…”