Thesis--PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references.

Improving the success rates of children in mental health treatment is an important step to bettering lives. Day treatment programs are intermediate level treatment modalities that help children who are struggling with their mental health. Success rates differ for children in day treatment programs and several studies have been done evaluating various factors. This research addressed whether a child who had been exposed to trauma showed as much success in a program as a child that had not been exposed to trauma. Other variables were to determine if children have different levels of success based on their diagnosis. The study was quasi-experimental and used clinical documentation to assess the different factors and level of success. A Kruskal-Wallis rank sum test and the Pearson chi-squared test were run to determine if there was a difference in success rates for 85 children with different diagnoses. This study determined no significant difference between the success rate for children based on either the diagnosis of depression or oppositional defiant disorder. A one-way ANOVA was run to determine if there was a difference in success rates for children who had experienced trauma and those who had not. This study determined no significant difference between success rates for children who had experienced trauma and those who had not. This study offers day treatment programs additional information to ensure programming offered to children is equally successful for all children.

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University

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Title from title page of PDF (University of Missouri--St. Louis, viewed March 9, 2010). Includes bibliographical references (p. 83-92).

Day treatment programme is clinically-based 6-week structured integrated programme for out patiens with schizophrenia, best after first attack, when patients need psychological support as soon as possible to cope with their illness and with reality,that they have to use drugs. The programme is led by psychiatrist and nurse-therapist. The group day treatment programme consists of individual and family psychoeducation,social skill training, life style improvement intervention, cognitive remediation and information aided relapse prevention programme ITAREPS. The principal aim of day treatment programme i afford place for psychiatric rehabilitation and surmount stage after release from hospital. Combination of all those interventions is more effective. And by this way doctors try to improve quality of patient"s life and make easy return to society. Although they try to educate patients and their families to recognize early warning signs of relapse. Main problems are: recognize illness,bad manipulation with informations,changing relapse and remissions,stigma of schizophrenia in society,support in family. Patients have to know,that they are ill. They have to understand, that if they take pills every day, the relapse does not come. And they will take pills, if they will understand, why is it so important. They...

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This study measured the effectiveness of rehabilitative day treatment (RDT) programs for persons with severe and persistant mental illness in San Bernardino County. The effectiveness of RDT services was determined by rates of recidivism.

Denna studie är en fallstudie vid två av Magelungens dagverksamheter. Studien inkluderar tre olika perspektiv: ungdom, förälder och behandlare. Syftet med studien har varit att undersöka informanternas upplevelser av ungdomens tid på Magelungens dagverksamhet. Detta har gjorts genom en kvalitativ metod där sekundärdata, i form av nio intervjuer genomförda av Magelungens forskningsgrupp, har bearbetats och analyserats genom meningskoncentrering. Studien tar avstamp i den kunskapslucka kring kvalitativ forskning om dagverksamheter som forskningsgenomgången visar på. Resultatet tyder på att informanterna generellt sett är nöjda med tiden på dagverksamheten. Det positiva kretsar kring gemenskap, det lilla sammanhanget, personalens förhållningssätt och en individanpassad verksamhet som inkluderar flera områden. Det framkommer även negativa upplevelser som då framförallt handlar om att personalen borde ställt mer krav på ungdomarna. Det kretsar även kring att ungdomarna inte förbereddes tillräckligt inför avslutet från Magelungen och övergången till ”en vanlig skola”. De negativa upplevelserna kommer framförallt från föräldrar och personal medan ungdomarna själva är mer positiva. I diskussionen har systemteori samt risk- och skyddsfaktorer använts som utgångspunkt för att tolka resultaten. Resultaten diskuteras vidare i förhållande till implikationer för vidare forskning utifrån svårigheterna i att bedöma dagverksamheternas kvalitet då ungdomar placerade där utgör en mycket heterogen grupp. / This study is a case study at two of Magelungens day treatment centers. The study includes three different perspectives: adolescent, parent and therapist. The purpose of this study was to investigate the interviewees' experiences of the adolescents’ time at Magelungens day treatment center. This has been done through a qualitative approach where secondary data, in the form of nine interviews conducted by Magelungens research group, were processed and analyzed by the method of sense concentration. The study takes off from the gap of knowledge on qualitative research on day treatment centers as the research review shows.  The result indicates that the interviewees are generally satisfied with the adolescents’ time at the day treatment center. The positive experiences revolve around solidarity, the small context, the approach of the staff and an individualized setting that includes several domains. It also reveals negative experiences that mostly centers on the fact that the staff should have put more demands on the adolescents. It also revolves around the adolescents not being prepared enough for the transition to “a regular school”. The negative experiences mainly belong to the parents and staff, while the adolescents themselves are more positive. In the discussion, systems theory as well as the understanding of risk and protective factors is used as a basis for interpreting the results. The results are further discussed in relation to implications for further research with regards to the difficulties in assessing the quality of day treatment centers since the adolescents placed there are such a heterogeneous group.