Affiliation:
1. Hemel Hempstead Child & Family Consultation & Therapy Centre, The Marlowes
Abstract
Useful outcome research must use measures that are relevant to the clinical group in question. A literature review identified that little effort has been made to identify which areas of outcome are important for severely disturbed children with complex disorders, who are in day treatment. For a group of such children attending a psychiatric–educational day unit, this study set out to identify, at a qualitative level, which areas of change were valued by carers, teachers and clinicians. The results suggest that for children with severe psychiatric and educational problems a useful intervention need not involve large changes in the child. It was more important that the child’s informal and formal care network: carers, teachers, clinical staff and the professionals in other agencies, were able to reach a common understanding of the child’s difficulties, develop similar expectations of the child’s needs, and be able to agree on appropriate future plans for the child.
Subject
Psychiatry and Mental health,Clinical Psychology,General Medicine,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
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2 articles.
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