Making a successful transition: effects of a treatment-based and school-based program on emotionally troubled children and their adjustment to new placements.
This study compares the outcomes of two groups of 12-to-13 year olds who were in their last year at a day or five-day residential treatment center for seriously emotionally troubled children. One group was enrolled in a treatment-based program; the second group participated in a school-based program designed to ease the transition to new placements. Each group was evaluated when discharged from the center and 6 weeks after entering their new placements. Interviews with parents and teachers indicated that the school-based children scored significantly higher on six of eight indicators of adjustment than did children in the treatment-based program.
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Episcopal Center for Children, Washington, DC 20015, USA.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002648:Child; D004219:District of Columbia; D004519:Education, Special; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012114:Residential Treatment; D012917:Social Adjustment