Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to S Finkelberg.
Analysis of 149 responses (based on a 15% random college sample) indicated that 90% considered they were or had been depressed at college. Depression was usually moderate and of short duration and associated with boyfriend/girlfriend difficulties, other social adjustment, and grades. These students turned to friends, themselves, and parents for help. Treatment could be provided by a college.
Admission Rorschach variables were compared to 2-year reevaluation responses of adolescents (n = 50) in residential treatment using Weiner and Exner's (1991) 27 structural variables. Fifty adolescents who had previously failed to improve in outpatient treatment and multiple hospitalizations were subsequently placed in residential treatment. Following 2 years of residential treatment, they showed positive personality changes as indicated by a reduction in Rorschach indices of impaired functioning. Positive treatment changes in interpersonal awareness were discussed utilizing a social identification index formulated for this population. Results indicate the utility of the Rorschach test-retest method of assessing treatment outcome.