Conclusions: Many adolescents in need of
psychiatric assessment do not receive appropriate help because their problems remain unnoticed by adults.
Not exact matches
The White House told reporters on Monday that
psychiatric tests would not be conducted as part of the president's physical, but
did not explicitly rule out cognitive
assessments.
Does this right apply if a person is «apprehended» and taken involuntarily to a health facility for a
psychiatric assessment?
• Not only
do they have access to Diagnostic
assessments but other
psychiatric testing as needed in addition to both individual and family or relational counseling On top of these services, clients are also going to be able to access a la carte services soon, such as trauma - specific groups and more.
Initial rates of
psychiatric disorder
did not predict the likelihood of missing
assessments (z = 1.5; P =.23), suggesting no effect of differential dropout.
Contrary to the meta - analyses of Crits - Christoph5 andAnderson and Lambert, 7 studies of IPT werenot included (eg, Elkin et al30 and Wilfleyet al31), because the relation of IPT to STPPis controversial, and empirical results suggest that IPT is very close toCBT.9 Thus, this review includes only studiesfor which there is a general agreement that they represent models of STPP.As it is questionable to aggregate the results of very different outcome measuresthat refer to different areas of psychological functioning, we assessed theefficacy of STPP separately for target symptoms, general
psychiatric symptoms (ie, comorbid symptoms), and social functioning.32 Thisprocedure is analogous to the meta - analysis of Crits - Christoph.5 Asoutcome measures of target problems, we included patient ratings of targetproblems and measures referring to the symptoms that are specific to the patientgroup under study, eg, measures of anxiety for studies investigating treatmentsof anxiety disorders.33 For the efficacy ofSTPP in general
psychiatric symptoms, broad measures of
psychiatric symptomssuch as the Symptom Checklist - 90 and specific measures that
do not refer specificallyto the disorder under study were included; eg, the Beck Depression Inventoryapplied in patients with personality disorders.34, 35 Forthe
assessment of social functioning, the Social Adjustment Scale and similarmeasures were included.36
Families were recruited through their children's schools, and met the following criteria: (a) both mothers and fathers agreed to participate, (b) all were regularly married couples, (c) all participants completed the entire
assessment phase, (d) parents and children
did not meet criteria for
psychiatric diagnosis and were not under psychological treatment.