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Attrition or loss of cases poses a significant problem in the evaluation and delivery of children’s psychiatric services (Garfield, 1986; Howard, Krause, & Orlinsky, 1986; Stark, 1992). From 28% to 59% of children and families drop out from treatment (Gould, Shaffer, & Kaplan, 1985). Since two-thirds of children in need of mental health intervention already fail to receive this service (U.S. Congress, 1986, 1991), attrition exacerbates the problem of too few services to children in need of care. Furthermore, and inextricably related, attrition is a major problem in treatment research (Kazdin, 1988). Loss of subjects prohibits drawing valid inferences from the aspect of treatment under study.
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Armbruster, P., Kazdin, A.E. (1994). Attrition in Child Psychotherapy. In: Ollendick, T.H., Prinz, R.J. (eds) Advances in Clinical Child Psychology. Advances in Clinical Child Psychology, vol 16. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9041-2_3
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