“…We found that these variables effected therapists similarly, i.e., there were no random slopes. For dropout, the patient variables identified were similar to those reported elsewhere: greater symptom severity at intake (Kazdin et al, 1994); younger age (e.g., Edlund et al, 2002), and non-white ethnicity and unemployment, which may be proxy measures of socioeconomic deprivation (Garfield, 1994;Wierzbicki & Pekarik, 1993;Williams, Ketring & Salts, 2005). In addition, and possibly of greater concern, was the finding that patients at risk of harming themselves or others were more likely to dropout than patients with no risk, a finding that supports previous research from a single service study using CORE risk items (Saxon, Ricketts, & Heywood, 2010).…”