Citation

Gabel S, Shindledecker R. J. Am. Acad. Child Adolesc. Psychiatry 1991; 30(6): 982-988.

Affiliation

Children's Day Hospital, New York.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, Publisher Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/00004583-199111000-00017

PMID

1757448

Abstract

This study evaluated the characteristics and outcome of a group of children and adolescents treated in day hospital and inpatient settings. Severe aggressive/destructive behavior was present in about one-third of the sample and was more common in boys, in children and adolescents with history of parental substance abuse, and in those with a concurrent diagnosis of conduct disorder. Although both an admission diagnosis of conduct disorder and aggressive/destructive behavior as a preadmission variable predicted poor outcome, aggressive/destructive behavior was the more important of the two. Aggressive/destructive behavior in association with conduct disorder seems to confer an especially poor prognosis in hospital-treated youth.

Language: en