Adolescents', Parents', and Teachers' Distress Over Adolescents' Behavior
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1994
Keywords
Clinical Implication, School Psychology
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02171998
Abstract
This study evaluated adolescents', parents', and teachers' self-reported distress and wishes to change adolescents' emotional/behavioral problems in a sample of clinically referred adolescents. Parents reported being bothered more than adolescents or teachers by adolescents' internalizing behavior. Both parents and teachers rated adolescents' externalizing behavior as more bothersome than did adolescents. Adolescents were significantly less likely to want to change their behavior than were parents or teachers. In addition, adolescents were significantly more likely to want to change their internalizing problems than their externalizing problems. For all three informants, being bothered by adolescents' behaviors was strongly associated with a desire to change the behaviors. Clinical implications of these findings are discussed.
Was this content written or created while at USF?
Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, v. 22, issue 6, p.721–732
Scholar Commons Citation
Phares, Vicky and Danforth, J. S., "Adolescents', Parents', and Teachers' Distress Over Adolescents' Behavior" (1994). Psychology Faculty Publications. 968.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/psy_facpub/968
