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RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT OF MALADJUSTED CHILDREN: A STUDY OF SOME FACTORS RELATED TO PROGRESS IN ADJUSTMENT *
Author(s) -
PETRIE I. R. J.
Publication year - 1962
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1962.tb01729.x
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology , test (biology) , clinical psychology , paleontology , biology
S ummary . The main purpose of this enquiry was to study the progress in adjustment of a group of twenty‐three maladjusted children in a special boarding school, and to relate improvement to a number of factors. Progress was mainly assessed by comparing the initial and final test results in intelligence, reading and arithmetic, the Bristol Social Adjustment Guides, and projection techniques. In an independent assessment the Warden of the school classified the children into broad categories according to patterns of behaviour, severity of symptoms, and degree of improved adjustment, and comparisons were made between these groups. The results show that, whilst the reliability and validity of the Bristol Guides in the assessment of maladjustment were moderately good, those of the projection tests were generally poor. All the techniques, except the W.I.S.C. verbal scale, showed significant improvement but there was very little relationship between them, and only the improvement shown on the Bristol Guides was significantly related to the Warden's own assessments of improvement. The rate of progress of these children tends to be inconsistent, for those who made most progress in the first half of the experimental period did not do so in the second. Severity of symptoms and level of intelligence were slightly related to improved adjustment, but a more important factor seems to be improvement in parental attitudes.