Follow-up adjustment of outpatient dropouts.

This study assesses the post-therapy adjustment of outpatient dropouts by investigating the relationship between termination status, number of visits attended, and pretreatment and follow-up symptom levels. Dropouts who attended only one or two sessions had extremely poor adjustment at follow-up; later dropouts were improved at follow-up, though their absolute level of adjustment was inferior to that of the appropriate terminators.