Characteristics of Emotionally Disturbed Children Referred to Day-Treatment, Special-Class, Outpatient, and Assessment Services

We examined characteristics differentiating 68 emotionally disturbed 6- to 12-year-old children referred to one of four treatment programs: day treatment, segregated class, outpatient treatment, or assessment only. We expected that children in the more intrusive programs (i.e., day treatment and special class) would be characterized by more severe emotional problems than would be children in the less intrusive treatment programs. Measures of …