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PubMed1986

Program effectiveness of a residential treatment center for emotionally disturbed adolescent females as measured by exit personality tests.

This study examines whether there are any significant differences in the Jessness Inventory psychological profiles between adolescent females who have successfully completed a treatment program at a residential treatment center and adolescent females of similar socioeconomic backgrounds and age who have not exhibited overt evidence of psychological problems. A significant difference was found in the mean scores on several of the scales. Implications as to the meaning of these differences and program effectiveness are discussed.

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PubMed1986

Separation of brain-damaged from psychiatric patients with the combined use of an ability and a personality test: a validation study with a Puerto Rican population.

The purpose of this study was to validate the results obtained by Watson, Gasser, Schaefer, Buranen, and Wold (1981) by utilizing the Smith Symbol-Digit Modalities Test (Form W) and the MMPI (Psychiatric-Organic) scale in combination. Forty recently admitted/readmitted male patients were given both the SDMT and the MMPI (P-O) at a point in their hospitalization in a private inpatient psychiatric hospital in Puerto Rico. The combined use of the Smith and the P-O scale, with the criteria originally developed by Watson et al. (1981), provided a modest level of discrimination by correctly identifying 80% of the brain-damaged sample (organic group) and 55% of the functional sample (psychiatric group) subjects. This combination of tests yielded an overall mean hit rate of 67.5%. These results moderately support the findings obtained by Watson et al. (1981).

Adolescent↗
PubMed2000

High suicidal ideation in persons testing for Huntington's disease.

This study examined the first participants who registered for the Huntington's disease predictive testing program 1990-1995 in Stockholm, Sweden. A psychosocial investigation was performed to evaluate potential effects of the presymptomatic testing. The results showed no significant differences between 13 gene carriers and 21 noncarriers in pretest attitudes, expectations, general well-being, life satisfaction and lifestyle, the need for support, estimated sense of wellbeing or degree of health. However, both groups showed high suicidal ideation and self-injurious behavior. Noncarriers had a very high frequency of attempted suicide, and both groups had similarly pronounced psychiatric dysfunction. Their relatives also had high frequencies of psychiatric diseases, suicide or suicidal attempts. Most of the participants had a desire to meet a psychologist or a social worker. The need for counseling, using a well designed protocol, and the importance of focusing on suicide risk of participants in predictive testing programs is emphasized.

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