Predicting future clinical adjustment from treatment outcome and process variables

Author(s): Forgatch, M. S.

Journal/Book: Psychol Assessment. 1995; 7: 750 First St NE, Washington, DC 20002-4242. Amer Psychological Assoc. 275-285.

Abstract: General issues relating to the use of outcome and process data from the treatment of antisocial children to predict future childhood adjustment are examined. For outcome measures, it was assumed that variables based on direct observation of child behavior would provide a better predictor of long-term adjustment than would ratings by participant adults. Long-term adjustment measures consisted of police arrest and out-of-home placement data collected 2 years after treatment termination. Observation data collected at termination predicted future police arrest, but parent and teacher ratings did not. It was also hypothesized that measures of the processes thought to produce the changes in child antisocial behavior would serve as predictors of future adjustment. The data supported this hypothesis.

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Keyword(s): PARENT-TRAINING-PROGRAM; CONDUCT-PROBLEM CHILDREN; BEHAVIOR; FAMILIES; BOYS; MANIPULATION

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