Goal consensus and task agreement as predictors of attendance and compliance in community-based treatments for adolescents with emotional disorders

The current findings suggest that the more that adolescents and clinicians agreed on setting goals and the therapeutic tasks to achieve those goals, the more frequently adolescents attended therapy and complied with therapy expectations. Creating structured approaches to confirming goals and agreement on therapy tasks throughout treatment may be important and promote better treatment attendance and compliance and ultimately better outcomes for adolescents with emotional disorders.