Variables Associated with Success in an Adolescent Drug Treatment Program

• NCJ Number: 130974
• Journal: Adolescence Volume: 26 Issue: 102 Dated: (Summer 1991) Pages: 305-317
• Author(s): J E Knapp; D I Templer; W G Cannon; S Dobson
• Date Published: 1991
• Length: 12 pages
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Type: Survey
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

The purpose of this study was to investigate the variables that predicted success in an adolescent inpatient drug treatment program.

Abstract

The prognosis in 94 adolescent polydrug abusers was determined on the basis of the MMPI, the Millon Adolescent Personality Inventory, Wechsler IQ, and historical variables. Favorable outcome was associated with being female, having fewer legal difficulties, fewer neurological risk factors, less pathological MMPI scores, higher Verbal IQ, and lower Performance IQ. 5 tables and 18 references (Author abstract)