ADOLESCENTS, PARENTS, AND TEACHERS DISTRESS OVER ADOLESCENTS BEHAVIOR

This study evaluated adolescents: parents: and teachers' self-reported distress and wishes to change adolescents' emotional/behavioral probl ems in a sample of clinically referred adolescents. Parents reported b eing bothered more than adolescents or teachers by adolescents' intern alizing behavior. Both parents and teachers rated adolescents' externa lizing behavior as more bothersome than did adolescents. Adolescents w ere significantly less likely to want to change their behavior than we re parents or teachers. In addition, adolescents were significantly mo re likely to want to change their internalizing problems than their ex ternalizing problems. For all three informants, being bothered by adol escents' behaviors was strongly associated with a desire to change the behaviors. Clinical implications of these findings are discussed.