For adolescents who exhibit psychopathology, mental health costs have been exorbitant, while the various traditional forms of psychiatric treatment have neither demonstrated significant improvement in success rate nor significant ability to generalize whatever improved behaviour is obtained from the treatment setting to the adolescent patient's general life adjustment. Thus the luxury of theoretical philosophical positions should (in our opinion) be tabled pending further research developments and a more practical treatment model adopted for the interim.
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