title: Treatment goal-planning: outcome findings of a British prospective multi-centre study of adolescent inpatient units.
abstract: A set of 16 treatment goals, related to 4 areas of adolescent functioning, were defined and employed in the initial and discharge assessments of 276 patients, admitted to 4 inpatient units, examined during a multi-centre prospective study of adolescent psychiatric hospitalizations. At discharge, subjects showed a substantial improvement across all treatment goals; least improvement was observed amongst those goals most frequently targeted. The clinical investigators consider the treatment goal definitions used in this study a meaningful way of measuring psychiatric disturbances in adolescence as well as a useful measure of change in an inpatient population. Further development of the treatment goal definitions would produce a robust clinical and audit tool.
authors.affiliation: Irwin Unit, Joseph Sheldon Hospital, Rubery, Birmingham, U.K.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rothery
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wrate
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: McCabe
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Aspin
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bryce
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010343:Patient Admission; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational / Q000523:psychology; D012951:Socialization; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D006113:United Kingdom