Long-Term Follow-Up of Former Inpatients at the Children's Hospital of the Menninger Clinic
Abstract
A follow-up study of 100 children and adolescents treated in a residential setting revealed that about two-thirds had made ordinary or marginal adjustment and about one-half had clearly been helped. Low IQ carried a grim prognostic significance, particularly when coupled with psychosis and violence. The author was struck with the relative ease with which a clinical institution can learn something about its therapeutic effects.
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