Child and adolescent day treatment: population profile.
This paper presents the demographic and clinical data necessary to define the population of children and adolescents served in a model day treatment program. On the day of admission, patients (N = 204) and parents complete a batter of instruments designed to measure reliably characteristics of the patient's system at three levels: individual, parental, and family. Design of the assessment establishes comparisons among self-report, parent/other report, and clinician report measures at each subsystem level. Results of the CBCL, YSR, PIC, Piers-Harris, MCMI, DAS, and FES indicate moderate levels of disturbance, usually consistent with norms reported on referred or clinical populations. Patients are being treated for a wide variety of childhood disorders within systems demonstrating dysfunction at parental, marital, and familial levels.
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D003631:Day Care, Medical / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003710:Demography; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010343:Patient Admission / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013714:Tennessee / Q000453:epidemiology