White TA, Benn R, Gross D, Schaffer-Lopez C. Assessing the need for follow-up: the relationship of prognosis to posthospitalization adjustment.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 1979;
10:91-102. [PMID:
230944 DOI:
10.1007/bf01433501]
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Abstract
Parents of children (N-64) hospitalized at a psychiatric hospital between the years 1971 and 1976 rated their child's adjustment in a number of behavioral areas. Problems in school, making friends, acting age-appropriately, and handling aggression were reported to be the major sources of difficulty for 40% of the former patients. No statistical relationship was found between clinicians' prognosis at discharge and children's post-hospitalization adjustment. The authors discuss some of the variables that mitigate against accurate outcome prediction and argue for the integration of an organized follow-up program into their treatment program.
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