Variables Associated with Success in an Adolescent Drug Treatment Program.

Knapp, Judith Ellen; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ432338

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1991

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Variables Associated with Success in an Adolescent Drug Treatment Program.

Knapp, Judith Ellen; And Others

Adolescence, v26 n102 p305-17 Sum 1991

Investigated variables that predicted success in adolescent inpatient drug treatment program for 94 polydrug abusers. Based prognosis on Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), Millon Adolescent Personality Inventory, Wechsler IQ, and historical variables. Found favorable outcome associated with having fewer legal difficulties, fewer neurological risk factors, less pathological MMPI scores, higher Verbal IQ, lower Performance IQ, and being female. (Author/PVV)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Drug Abuse, Drug Addiction, Drug Rehabilitation, Intelligence Quotient, Legal Problems, Neurological Impairments, Psychopathology, Sex Differences

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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