A Study of Adolescent Psychiatric In‐patients and the Outcome Six or More Years Later

Treatment goal-planning: Outcome findings of a British prospective multi-centre study of adolescent inpatient units

“…Treatment goal outcome at discharge differed according to diagnosis, in accordance with previous studies (Blotcky, 1984;Pfeiffer & Strzelecki, 1990). For most diagnoses it was difficult to compare this study's various outcome measures with the findings of two single-unit studies reporting on immediate outcome at discharge (Warren, 1965;Ainsworth, 1984) since diagnostic practice varied and their assessments of outcome were very general. A finer-grained methodology and the use of multiple treatment goals would permit outcome of hospitalisation to be assessed and compared with far greater precision between units.…”

“…Previous studies have either failed to describe treatment interventions at all (Warren, 1965) or described general accounts of the ward milieu and the types of treatment offered (Bruggen et al, 1973;Framrose, 1975;Wells et al, 1978;Ainsworth, 1984;Peripanayagam, 1987). The advantage of this study is that all treatment interventions used in relation to the treatment goals were recorded and an attempt made to relate them to outcome, albeit with limited success.…”

A Study of Anorexia Nervosa in Young Girls

“…a ruptured kidney; chronic sinusitis and twice pneumonia; scarlet fever with nephrotic lesions; periodic effusion into the knee up the age of 7 yr; recurrent tonsillitis. The incidence of a history of moderate or serious illness was again not different to that found among other adolescent admissions (Warren, 1965) and there was no history ofthe sort of minor ill-health reported by Kay and Leigh (1954).…”

ADOLESCENT TURMOIL: FACT OR FICTION?*

“…The evidence is not decisive but, so far as it goes, it suggests that their outlook is no different from the other. Warren (1965) found that the age of onset of the disorder did not influence the prognosis one way or the other. Capes et al (1971) found that the prognosis was better for those whose first five years of life were reasonably trouble-free, but as nearly all of these had emotional disorders a good prognosis would have been expected on the basis of diagnosis alone.…”