The Role of Gender as a Moderator of the Alliance-Outcome Link in Acute Inpatient Treatment of Severely Disturbed Youth

Jeffrey S. Nevid; Jasmine Ghannadpour; Gregory Haggerty

doi:10.1002/cpp.2025

The Role of Gender as a Moderator of the Alliance-Outcome Link in Acute Inpatient Treatment of Severely Disturbed Youth

Jeffrey S. Nevid, Jasmine Ghannadpour, Gregory Haggerty

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Abstract

Research is needed to further examine the role of treatment alliance or engagement among child and adolescent patients in inpatient psychiatric settings. In this study, 72 newly admitted patients on an inpatient adolescent psychiatric unit completed measures of symptom severity and treatment alliance. Female patients showed greater symptom severity at both admission and discharge. Residualized gain score analysis showed that male gender predicted greater symptom reduction. Treatment alliance also predicted greater symptom reduction, but only among women. These results suggest that alliance or engagement with acute inpatient psychiatric services may play a more important role among women than men in predicting symptomatic change in severely disturbed adolescents.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	528-533
Number of pages	6
Journal	Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
Volume	24
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2025
State	Published - Mar 1 2017

Keywords

Adolescents
Alliance
Gender
Inpatients
Outcomes
Treatment

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Clinical Psychology

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