Parents' treatment expectations and attrition from a child psychiatric service
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Clinical Psychology
- Vol. 40 (1) , 372-377
- https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-4679(198401)40:1<372::aid-jclp2270400169>3.0.co;2-q
Abstract
In a large Child Psychiatric Service a structured questionnaire completed by parents (N = 80) prior to clinic contact tested the hypothesis that congruence between parent expectations and clinic actions as to the form, duration and process of treatment would be associated with greater acceptance of services. Empirical support was found for the importance of congruent expectations of treatment form and duration, but not of treatment process.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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