TY - JOUR T1 - Noncompliance with Family Court Mandated Evaluations in a Juvenile Justice Clinic JF - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online JO - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law SP - 31 LP - 38 VL - 22 IS - 1 AU - Gabriel Kaplan AU - Delizia Pannullo AU - David Brodzinsky AU - Jennifer Clarke Hitt Y1 - 1994/03/01 UR - http://jaapl.org/content/22/1/31.abstract N2 - 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. ER -