A Descriptive Follow-Up of Behaviorally Disordered Adolescents

Abstract

Teachers, program developers, and administrators of programs for behaviorally disordered adolescents are often interested in identifying characteristics of students their programs successfully serve. For many programs, students successfully served are defined as those adolescents moved from the specialized treatment setting to a less restrictive environment. Follow-up studies can identify characteristics of students successfully served and help educators examine their goals and objectives for those students. The present study is a descriptive follow-up of adolescents 2 to 4 years after successfully leaving a facility for the behaviorally disordered. The results, including descriptions of demographic, academic, residential, and occupational status of the former students, are presented in the context of an ongoing investigation.

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