Adolescent residential treatment: a one to three year follow-up.
Considerable difficulties have been encountered in the residential treatment of adolescents with psychiatric disorders. Few of these programs have been successful. This study describes the long term effectiveness of a residential treatment program for disturbed adolescents. This program was particularly successful in returning severely disturbed adolescents to the community. None of the adolescents needed intensive residential treatment during the follow-up period. Three objective measures (Global Assessment Scale, Level of Functioning Scale, Adolescent Functioning Scale) were used at three specific times (admission, discharge and long term follow-up) to determine the level of psychosocial functioning of each adolescent. A significant improvement was found in the adolescents' level of functioning. These treatment gains were maintained at the time of long term follow-up (one to three years).
Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton.
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Blackman
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Eustace
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Chowdhury
D000293:Adolescent; D000300:Adoption / Q000523:psychology; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D002669:Child Welfare; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005581:Foster Home Care / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008297:Male; D010552:Personality Assessment; D012114:Residential Treatment; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012931:Social Environment