PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Gabriel Kaplan
AU  - Delizia Pannullo
AU  - David Brodzinsky
AU  - Jennifer Clarke Hitt
TI  - Noncompliance with Family Court Mandated Evaluations in a Juvenile Justice Clinic
DP  - 1994 Mar 01
TA  - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
PG  - 31--38
VI  - 22
IP  - 1
4099  - http://jaapl.org/content/22/1/31.short
4100  - http://jaapl.org/content/22/1/31.full
SO  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law1994 Mar 01; 22
AB  - This study identified factors correlating with noncompliance with family court ordered evaluations. Ninety charts from a juvenile justice clinic were reviewed. Subject noncompliance was defined as failure to attend three consecutive appointments. Patient, family, and environmental factors were analyzed. Forty-two percent of the subjects were noncompliant. Five variables discriminated compliant from noncompliant subjects: parental cooperation, prior criminal charge, school behavior problems, treatment at another facility, and disruptive behavior disorder. Utilizing these predictors, only 13 percent of subjects were misclassified as noncompliant in a discriminant analysis. It is concluded that a Court order by itself does not guarantee compliance with a mental health evaluation. However, the findings suggest that the risk for noncompliance may be assessed at the outset of the evaluation utilizing the above identified factors.