Outcome Findings from a Parent Training Programme for Young People with Conduct Problems.

Background:   Group-based parent training programmes are a common intervention for tackling conduct problems in young people. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of a parent training programme on young people presenting with conduct problems.

Method:   123 parents of young people aged 10 to 17 with conduct problems participated in the study.

Multisystemic Therapy (MST) for Youth Offending, Psychiatric Disorder and Substance Abuse: Case Examples from a UK MST Team.

Background:   The paper illustrates the MST treatment model with three types of presenting problem in young people aged 14-15.

Method:   The MST model is described and then illustrated with detailed case material from a violent young person convicted of robbery, a young person with a history of serious self-harming behaviour and hospitalisation, and a young person persistently smoking cannabis.

Results:   All three cases improved after the MST intervention despite disparate presenting problems that included re-offending, the elimination of self-harming behaviour and a significant reduction in the use of cannabis.

Collecting Routine Outcome Data in a Psychotherapy Community Clinic for Young People: Findings from an Ongoing Study.

Background:   The paper reports on the collection of routine outcome data from an ongoing audit at a voluntary sector psychotherapy service for young people aged 12 to 21 years in London offering once-weekly psychotherapy.

Method:   The study uses intake and follow-up data from an ongoing audit of the psychotherapy service that started in 1993; 1608 young people were included in the study. Measures and areas of interest include the Youth Self Report Form, a significant other (SO) version of the Teacher's Report Form, the Young Adult Self Report Form, and the Young Adult Behaviour Check List.

Opportunistic screening for Chlamydia at a community based contraceptive service for young people.

Problem: The suspected high prevalence of Chlamydia infection that is undiagnosed and untreated among high risk women who attend a contraceptive service for young people.

Design: Cross sectional study from a community screening service.

Background And Setting: An inner city contraceptive and psychotherapy service for young people aged 12-21 years.

The evaluation of mental health outcome at a community-based psychodynamic psychotherapy service for young people: a 12-month follow-up based on self-report data.

The present study focuses on the evaluation of mental health outcome of 151 young people who received psychodynamic psychotherapy at the Brandon Centre, a community-based psychodynamic psychotherapy centre; for young people. This paper reports the results from a 1-year follow-up based on self-report data. Participants aged 12-18 years completed either the Youth Self Report form or, if they were aged over 18, the Young Adult Self Report form at intake, 3 months, 6 months, and 1 year.

Mental health services in schools: the challenge of locating a psychotherapy service for troubled adolescent pupils in mainstream and special schools.

In Part 1, the case is presented for school-based mental health services in terms of the low utilization of community-based clinics and the high dropout rate among young adolescents attending clinics in the community. The advantages and potential pitfalls of school-based services are also assessed. In Part 2, the paper discusses the lessons learned from delivering psychotherapy services in mainstream and special schools to tackle the mental health problems presented by troubled pupils.

Emotional and behavioural problems in adolescents/young adults receiving treatment at a community-based psychotherapy centre for young people: a preliminary study of the correspondence among adolescent/young adult and significant other reports.

The present study examined the correspondence among adolescent/young adult and parental figure, professional, peer and partner reports, in their rating of emotional and behavioural problems of 195 young people aged between 12 and 25 years who attended a community-based psychotherapy centre. Data from young people were obtained at intake by participants completing the Youth Self Report Form and from significant others by them completing the Significant Other version of the Teacher's Report Form. Professionals rated internalizing (emotional) problems lower than peers, partners or parental figures.

Adolescents who drop out of psychotherapy at a community-based psychotherapy centre: a preliminary investigation of the characteristics of early drop-outs, late drop-outs and those who continue treatment.

The present study examined the difference between young people who terminated treatment prematurely and who continued in treatment. One hundred and thirty-four young people (ages 12 to 24 years) who attended a community-based psychotherapy centre for psychoanalytic psychotherapy between 1 April 1993 and 31 March 1996 comprised the sample. It was predicted that drop-outs would consist of younger adolescents who were referred, who show a high score for externalizing problems such as aggression and delinquency and a low score for internalizing problems such as anxiety and depression.

The process of engaging young people with severe developmental disturbance in psychoanalytic psychotherapy: patterns of practice.

The author discusses some of the problems faced by psychoanalytic psychotherapists at a community-based center in engaging in psychotherapy hard-to-reach young people who present with severe developmental disturbance. The difficulties are suggested to arise from a poorly developed capacity, in these young people, to reflect on their own and others' mental states. The technical implications for the therapeutic approach are discussed.