Preliminary Results

Preliminary Results

We are conducting an ongoing follow-up study of children who have participated in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, an attachment-based therapy, at the Center.

Some demographics for the families in our study:

Average age at adoption	7 years
Average length of treatment	10.9 months
Length of time after treatment ended that follow-up was conducted	1.1 years
Average number of prior treatment episodes	3.4
Age range of children in study	6 -- 16 years

Preliminary Results:

Measure	Pre-test	Post-test	Significance
Randolph Attachment Disorder Questionnaire*	65	20	<.0001
Child Behavior Checklist Scales
Withdrawn*	65	54	<.001
Social Problems*	67	59	<.001
Thought Problems*	68	56	<.001
Attention Problems*	72	57	<.001
Delinquent Behaviors*	69	53	<.001
Aggressive Behaviors*	71	55	<.001

* change is clinically significant and statistically significant. All Child Behavior Checklist scores moved from the clinical range into the normal range. (The CBCL scores are T-scores. 50=average and 5 is the standard deviation, so that any score over 60 is clinically significant as that places the child at or above the 95th percentile.)

All cases closed in the last year received the follow-up questionnaires and over 97% returned the questionnaires (34 of 35). All clients received Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, an attachment-based therapy on an outpatient basis.

The paper has been submitted for publication in a peer-reviewed professional journal this summer.

We recently sent questionnaires to a control group consisting of families we evaluated. The results of this study showed that alternative forms of treatment are not effective for such children. Click here to see some of this data.

For more details about the study and results click here.

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