Abstract
Prognosis refers to the likely future outcome of a disorder in the light of present and past evidence. To be meaningful one needs to specify in some detail what one is prognosticating about. The prognosis for a mongol child may be hopeless with regard to his chromosomal and anatomical aberrations, but fair for the prospects of training him to lead a semi-independent social existence. In compulsive rituals with frequent depression one might be able to eliminate most of the rituals without affecting the tendency to recurrent depression. Prognosis can thus be good for some aspects of a problem but poor for others.
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Marks, I. (1975). Prognosis in Behavioural Psychotherapy. In: Brengelmann, J.C., Quinn, J.T., Graham, P.J., Harbison, J.J.M., McAllister, H. (eds) Progress in Behaviour Therapy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66104-4_36
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