Parental involvement as a requisite for successful adolescent therapy.
The effect of parental involvement in the treatment program of 66 consecutive adolescent patients is analyzed. Adolescents whose parents participated regularly in a parents' group or in individual parental consultation and therapy achieved a 64% success rate, using narrow success criteria. For those adolescents whose parents were not involved in the treatment process, the failure rate was virtually 100% (chi2=21.07, p less than 0.001). There was no statistically significant difference in treatment outcome between the cohorts of parental involvement. However, a parents' group is recommended where feasible in lieu of individual parent consultation alone for reasons of catharsis, universality, mutual support, and collective experience.
D000293:Adolescent; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D011379:Prognosis; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group