Psychotherapeutic and other hospital treatment criteria: The dilemma.

The relationship between patient demographic characteristics and psychiatric rehabilitation outcome

“…Lewinsohn (1967) found a nonsignificant trend for married expatients to remain in the community to a greater extent than unmarried expatients. In contrast, other researchers have found marital status to be unrelated to recidivism (Forsyth & Fairweather, 1961;Lorei, 1967;Wessler & Iven, 1970).…”

“…Forsyth and Fairweather (1961) report in a factor analytic study that a 10-year work history prior to hospitalization fails to load on remaining in the community. Investigations of race and recidivism have likewise found no relationship between these two variables (Forsyth & Fairweather, 1961;Lorei, 1967).…”

“…Although some researchers have reported a correlation between these two variables (Forsyth & Fairweather, 1961;Gregory & Downie, 1968), other research results suggest that work is unrelated to remaining in the community and have found no posthospital employment differences between recidivists and nonrecidivists (Arthur, Ellsworth, & Kroeker, 1968;Freeman & Simmons, 1963;Wessler & Iven, 1970).…”

Career Counseling With Clients Who Have a Severe Mental Illness

“…Research evidence has indicated that an individual's vocational performance cannot be predicted by simply knowing how the person performs in other settings (Anthony, 1994). Other data have suggested that there is little relationship between hospital-based measures of adjustment and community-based measures of adjustment (Forsythe & Fairweather, 1961). Therefore, identifying a job for the client while he or she is still hospitalized can be critical for ensuring the client's successful discharge and return to the community.…”

Play Therapy, Social Adjustment and Reading Attainment

“…It may well be in some studies that the tests used or the rating criteria employed are too crude in discrimination or too invalid to measure changes in social adjustment. For instance, in the field of adult psychotherapy, Forsyth and Fairweather (1961) found that a number of frequently used psychological tests were unrelated to adjustment following discharge from hospital. The comment by Cartwright, et al (1963) is pertinent: 'No single test score, no one rater's rating can be considered adequately representative of the diversity of measured changes accompanying psychotherapy....…”