Citation

Piersma HL, Boes JL. J. Clin. Psychol. (Hoboken) 1997; 53(1): 65-72.

Affiliation

Pine Rest Mental Health Services, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9120034

Abstract

This report describes a study that integrates program evaluation with clinical practice. The subjects were 139 adolescent psychiatric inpatients who were tested with the Inventory of Suicide Orientation-30 (ISO-30) at admission and retested six days after admission. Aggregate analyses showed statistically significant changes in the direction of decreased suicidality on all ISO-30 indices. Further analyses compared the data with normative data from the ISO-30 manual, and also evaluated the relationships between ISO-30 scores and length of stay. Implications of the results and also methods of integrating outcome with clinical practice are discussed.

Language: en