Follow-up adjustment of outpatient dropouts.
- 1 July 1983
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
- Vol. 53 (3), 501-511
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-0025.1983.tb03394.x
Abstract
This study assesses the post-therapy adjustment of outpatient dropouts by investigating the relationship between termination status, number of visits attended, and pretreatment and follow-up symptom levels. Dropouts who attended only one or two sessions had extremely poor adjustment at follow-up; later dropouts were improved at follow-up, though their absolute level of adjustment was inferior to that of the appropriate terminators.Keywords
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