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- Title: Bringing Evidence-Based Child Mental Health Services to the Schools: General Issues and Specific Populations.
- Author : Education & Treatment of Children
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 206 KB
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Epidemiological research indicates a high prevalence of psychiatric disorders among children and adolescents. Approximately 21% of children and adolescents, ages 9 to 17, have a diagnosable psychiatric disorder (Costello et al., 1996; Shaffer et al., 1996; U.S. Public Health Service, 2000), and additional youngsters experience social and emotional difficulties that do not meet symptom criteria for a disorder but cause considerable distress and impairment in functioning. Unfortunately, there is a significant gap between the many youth who are in need of treatment and those who actually receive mental health care (Burns et al., 1995; Leaf et al., 1996). According to the Surgeon General's 1999 report on mental health, 6 to 9 million youngsters with emotional problems are not receiving the help they require (U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1999). The failure to provide treatment to youth represents a major public health concern (U.S. Public Health Service, 2000). Schools present a crucial avenue for ameliorating this problem, and have been designated as a key setting by the Surgeon General for identifying and addressing mental health needs in youth (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1999). This proposed solution for increasing health care access is based on several observations. First, in a large study of children's mental health service use, of the only 16% of youth receiving mental health services, 75% received them at school (Burns et al., 1995). Second, schools provide unparalleled contact with youth (Adelman & Taylor, 1999; Weist, 1997), and therefore, represent a single location through which the majority can be reached (Anglin, 2003). Such ease of accessibility creates the optimal environment to launch prevention, early identification, and intervention efforts that may prevent the development of serious secondary dysfunction such as suicidal behavior or substance abuse (Weist, 1999).