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On the other hand, little is known about characteristics of adolescents with CD who complete treatment. To gain more insight into what might become a successful therapy with adolescents with CD, this study explores baseline characteristics and drop-out occurrence in patients with CD referred to mentalization-based treatment for adolescents with CD (MBT-CD). More specifically, this study aims at identifying clusters of adolescent patients based on age, CD symptom severity and personality pathology at the beginning of treatment which may have come along with a higher or lower dropout occurrence.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Following implications of an elbow plot, a 3-means cluster-analysis was conducted on self-report baseline data of <jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic> =\u200932 adolescents with CD (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> =\u200911 dropouts, <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> =\u200921 completers) who participated in a feasibility study on MBT-CD. Additionally, in an exploratory stepwise logistic regression, variables were explored as potential predictors of dropout.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Cluster 1 consisted of <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> =\u200914 adolescents, of whom <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> =\u20098 (57%) dropped out. Cluster 2 consisted of <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> =\u20095 adolescents of whom 1 (20%) dropped out. Cluster 3 consisted of <jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic> =\u200913 adolescents, of whom only <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic> =\u20092 (15%) dropped out. Cluster 2 showed descriptively the highest CD symptom severity. While adolescents in Clusters 1 and 3 showed in part similarities in CD symptom severity, personality pathology was descriptively markedly higher in Cluster 1. In the stepwise logistic regression, only intimacy personality pathology was identified as potential predictor for dropout.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title><jats:p>This study\u2019s exploratory findings point to different types of adolescents with CD coming along with different chances for therapists to conduct a (successful) psychotherapy. Herein, low personality functioning in the intimacy domain, rather than CD symptoms as aggressiveness, may play a crucial role. While findings are limited by the small sample size, they may be able to shed increasing light on conducting (successful) psychotherapy with a scarcely researched patient group.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fpsyg.2024.1390169","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,10,2]],"date-time":"2024-10-02T04:53:26Z","timestamp":1727844806000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Patient characteristics of completion and dropout of mentalization-based treatment for adolescents with conduct disorder"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Sophie","family":"Hauschild","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Drago","family":"Dragovic","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lea","family":"Kasper","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Esther","family":"Sobanski","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Svenja","family":"Taubner","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,10,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","first-page":"131","article-title":"Psychopathic traits in non-referred youths: A new assessment tool","volume-title":"Psychopaths: Current International Perspectives","author":"Andershed","year":"2002"},{"key":"ref2","year":"2013"},{"key":"ref3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"4","DOI":"10.1111\/jcpp.12590","article-title":"Practitioner review: psychological treatments for children and adolescents with conduct disorder problems \u2013 a systematic review and meta-analysis","volume":"58","author":"Bakker","year":"2017","journal-title":"J. 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