TY  - JOUR
T1  - PRognosis in child psychiatry.
AU  - WORK HH
Y1  - 1969/11/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpedi.1969.02100040809031
JO  - American Journal of Diseases of Children
SP  - 807
EP  - 808
VL  - 118
IS  - 5
N2  - This is really an excellent little book. It is well written, clear, and sets forth vividly the conclusions from a follow-up study of 284 patients treated in the Child Psychiatry Section of the University Hospital in Oslo, between 1950 and 1954. Thus, the survey, done in 1965, gave a long range follow-up on a group of children who have been well studied but who had been inadequately treated. Amazingly, only one of the 285 cases was not traced, thanks to a system of domicilliary supervision that exists throughout Norway.The book is brief and well summarized. Certain items are worthy of comment. The group described as neurotic obviously did better than groups described as psychotic and oligophrenic. Surprisingly, the psychotic children come from a rather high income group whereas the other patients clustered in social class 2 and 3 as defined by the authors. In reviewing the prognosis, it was
SN  - 0002-922X
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpedi.1969.02100040809031
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1969.02100040809031
ER  -