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A long-range follow-up study of former inpatients at a children's psychiatric hospital

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A long-range follow-up study was done to assess adaptation to adulthood of patients who had been hospitalized at a children's psychiatric hospital during the fiscal year 1969–70. Diagnosis and age at admission were not found to be indicators of future adaptability and females adjusted slightly better than males. Paraprofessionals were mentioned and remembered by the former patients more often than therapists and the majority of the non-psychotic sample was adapting adequately as young adults.

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  1. Virginia Treatment Center for Children, P.O. Box 1-L, 23201, Richmond, VA

    Clara Parham L.C.S.W. (Clinical Social Work Supervisor) & Sue Reid A.C.S.W. (Clinical Social Work Supervisor)

  2. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Child Division, Medical College of Virginia, P.O. Box 1-L, 23201, Richmond, VA

    Clara Parham L.C.S.W. (Clinical Social Work Supervisor) & Sue Reid A.C.S.W. (Clinical Social Work Supervisor)

  3. Departments of Psychiatry and Biostatistics at the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, USA

    Robert M. Hamer Ph.D. (Associate Professor)

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  1. Clara Parham L.C.S.W.
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This study was partially funded by a research grant from the Virginia Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation.

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Parham, C., Reid, S. & Hamer, R.M. A long-range follow-up study of former inpatients at a children's psychiatric hospital. Child Psych Hum Dev 17, 199–209 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00706230

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