Abstract
Non-attendance rates are high in child psychiatry clinics. This potential waste of resources is coming under increasing scrutiny within the NHS. This study shows that therapists themselves are good at predicting who will attend and who will not. The family's previous attendance rate is the most reliable predictor. Why then is not more use made of this information when organising clinics? Ways are suggested how attendance rates might be improved.
Publisher
Royal College of Psychiatrists
Subject
Psychiatry and Mental health
Reference10 articles.
1. Dropping out of child psychotherapy: Distinguishing early and late dropouts over the course of treatment.
2. Improving initial attendance to a child and family psychiatric clinic;Mathai;Psychiatric Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatry,1990
3. Sociodemographic characteristics of drop-outs from a child guidance clinic;Armbruster;Hospital and Community Psychiatry,1994
4. Premature Termination from Treatment among Children Referred for Antisocial Behavior
5. Coping with dropouts.
Cited by
7 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献